Brendan O'Connor
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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Newspaper Panel
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Actor, Eileen Walsh: “It’s so gross....but women are like avocados – nearly read...
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“YouTubers are increasingly invading our TVs”
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The Watchlist
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Theologian: “Trump’s post was blasphemous and utterly un-Christian"
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Neurologist: “Procrastination is a tug-of-war between parts of your brain”
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Holidays Of A Lifetime “If you’re dreaming about it, just go”
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How to Walk, with Karl Henry
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Jan Carson - “Maybe the whole of Northern Ireland should have gone to therapy”
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French classics with an Irish twist
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Niall Quinn “Football is the answer to a lot of problems in modern Ireland”
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Apps that make travel easy with Conor Pope
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The Newspaper Panel
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“My father thought I was part bird, because I was born without arms”
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What is likely to happen now in the stand-off over the fuel protests?
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Do you know your love language? Psychologist, Allison Keating explains!
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Dermot Bannon “People say they need storage, but what are they storing?!”
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Baking this weekend? Chef Una Leonard has some tips!
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“You lose 30% of your collagen around perimenopause”
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The Newspaper Panel
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Nóirín Ní Riain – “The modern world badly needs a spiritual transplant”
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Kathryn Thomas - “I would never have admitted to Botox five years ago”
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Trisha Lewis - “I love myself now, I didn’t love myself 7 years ago”
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The Ultimate Chocolate Cake this Easter
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European Greenway Holidays “I wouldn’t go on a holiday now that didn’t involve c...
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Crime writer, Tana French - “Women are socialised to think about predators who s...
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Comedian, Emma Doran - “I’m like a Jack Russell; all bark but really I just want...
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The Edge on his friend Hal Wilner - “It was our good fortune to know him”
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Rita Ann Higgins: “The witch in me wanted to scramble his eggs”
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Newspaper Panel
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Arrest of controversial influencer Clavicular
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Was this the week the tide turned against social media giants?
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Stefanie Preissner: “I have six hoovers – and a back-up battery.”
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Colm Tóibín: “After Epstein, I wanted to explore why some people feel no guilt”
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The secrets of making great coffee, at home or at work
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Donal O’Shea: “Everything is salted caramel now: it combines salt, fat and sugar...
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How to ask for a pay rise
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Richie Sadlier: “I was in this pit of self-pity and anger and loss all wrapped i...
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Newspaper Panel
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The Watchlist
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The real-life drama surrounding TV show ‘Love Story’
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“Troy Parrott is just in flying form right now” - Tony O’Donoghue
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“This used to be called insider trading!” – the rise of online prediction market...
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Darina Allen: “Risotto is the ultimate stand-by dish”
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John Banville - “Humble items around the house might bring me to tears”
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Dr Richard Hogan: “Guilt & shame have their tentacles in everything”
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Carrie Crowley on the joys of sea-swimming
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