100 episodes
Brendan O'Connor RTÉ
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3.8 • 36 Ratings
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Brendan O'Connor has all you need for the weekend with time to pause and reflect on the week just gone. Featuring a selection of human interest, consumer and lifestyle stories, as well as keeping you up to date on the news stories that matter. Listen live Saturday and Sunday at 11am - 1pm on RTÉ Radio 1.
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An ED doctor on coming back from burnout
Dr Emily O’Conor, Consultant in Emergency Medicine, talks to Brendan about her experience of burnout and what we lose if we fail to value empathy in healthcare.
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Eurovision Fever
Eurovision legend Linda Martin is live from Malmo to discuss all things Bambie Thug and the Eurovision experience.
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Imelda May - ‘How can you pick five songs out of all the songs you love?!’
Singer, writer and actor Imelda May is tasked with picking some of the music of her life and talks to Brendan about tackling the role of Kathleen Behan on stage.
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Irish Island hopping
Travel journalist Pól Ó Conghaile takes Brendan on a trip through Ireland’s Islands and the best they have to offer
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Propaganda Wars – Navigating the zombie internet
With online manipulation through AI becoming ever more sophisticated, tech innovator and entrepreneur Mark Little talks to Brendan about the disruptive but effective tools that are being used to manipulate and influence us all.
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The secret to the perfect chicken fillet roll!
Grainne O’ Keefe, Chef from Mae Restaurant, talks us through how to make the perfect fried chicken, including a recipe for a posh chicken fillet roll!
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50 State Tour Through Rose Coloured Glasses
Adrian’s US tour is more to do with romance than reality. As an Irish man living in the US for over 25 years I have visited 42 states and currently live in Arizona. The town of Sedona that Adrian waxes lyrically over is thought of more as a tourist trap and when I was there it didn’t conjure up any songs either by The Eagles or even Jackson Browne.
Winslow Arizona is another disappointment known for a truck stop and a prison.
You know you’re nearing the prison when signposts along the road say Do Not Stop For Hitch Hikers.
Winslow is a Rez-Town as it stands on the edge of the largest Indian Reservation in the US @ 27 thousand square miles-home of The Navajo Nation it is stunning and barren and desolate with all the expected problems like poverty and alcoholism.
The sale of alcohol is illegal on the Reservation which helps create a certain dynamic in Rez-Towns.
As for eating in diners in big cities and you have to search hard for Mom & Pop entities-the name used for independent non-corporate businesses.
Mostly you’ll end up in Wendy’s Denny’s Arby’s It’s a Burger What A Burger lotta Burger In and Out Burger or MacDonalds.
City Centers are becoming a thing of the past in the US.
I do agree with Adrian on Indiana though.
Listening from Chicago
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