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County borders, 8th Committee and are you a snowflake?

Play Episode Listen Later Oct 19, 2017


The Snowflake Test, the 8th Committee, changing county borders, biomass is a waste of crop, the Irish diaspora, Austria, Internet safety and Essential Songs.

Wolf whistles, Catalan deadline, MH370 search relaunch

Play Episode Listen Later Oct 18, 2017


Laws against wolf whistling, Catalonia independence deadline tomorrow, Myanmar, plastic destroying the environment, part time women's rugby coach, MH370 search continues.

Ophelia aftermath, animal testing, Trump & Iran

Play Episode Listen Later Oct 17, 2017


Prosecuting for stupidity, Ophelia and climate change, animal testing, financial abuse of the elderly, Trump and Iran, credit unions, adult colouring books and more.

We can expect more hurricanes in Western Europe

Play Episode Listen Later Oct 17, 2017


Cara Augustenborg explains to Kieran why Ophelia is unlikely to be one off event in terms of hurricanes approaching our shores. There will be more.

We can't punish people for being morons

Play Episode Listen Later Oct 17, 2017


Kieran Cuddihy doesn't believe the idiots who swam in Galway during Ex-Hurricane Ophelia should be prosecuted or punished. Where do you draw the line?

Ireland's most haunted house, banning petrol and diesel

Play Episode Listen Later Oct 13, 2017


Mental health budget, Muslims need to 'catch up', Ireland's most haunted house, banning petrol and diesel cars, the Irish workforce, children's eating and more.

Are parents 'idiotic' when it comes to the kids' diets?

Play Episode Listen Later Oct 13, 2017


Aoife Hearne tells Kieran why she's passionate about the idea of 'one family, one meal', and we need to stop pandering to our children when it comes to food.

Muslim countries don't need to 'catch up' to the West

Play Episode Listen Later Oct 13, 2017


UCC's Amanullah de Sondy tells Kieran why it's a myth that Muslim countries' morals need to 'catch up' with the West.

Asteroid dangers, health insurance Q&A and hangovers

Play Episode Listen Later Oct 12, 2017


Spoiling kids with Christmas presents, asteroids could destroy Earth, Brexit and aviation, health insurance, curing hangovers, defecting from North Korea, Storm Ophelia

Politics at concerts, unhappy marriages, Catalonia

Play Episode Listen Later Oct 11, 2017


Keeping politics out of concerts, unhappy marriages, what Budget 2018 means for you, GPs to strike, Catalonia reaction, more cyber attacks and TripAdvisor is awful.

What do SocDems and the Greens want from Budget 2018?

Play Episode Listen Later Oct 9, 2017


Roisin Shortall, co-leader of the Social Democrats and Eamon Ryan. leader of the Green Party discuss the prospects for Budget 2018 with Ciara.

Challenges for the disabled in public places

Play Episode Listen Later Oct 9, 2017


Disability rights campaigner Suzy Byrne and Carole Pollard, President of the HIAI discuss the challenges facing the disabled in public places with Ciara Kelly.

Che Guevara, puppy mills, Pence's NFL game walkout

Play Episode Listen Later Oct 9, 2017


Che Guevara on stamps, Pence walks out of NFL game, banning 'puppy mills', explaining the Iranian nuclear deal, Budget preview, disabled people's issues in public places.

Phones in pubs, the Plague, 'ethnic cleansing' in Burma

Play Episode Listen Later Oct 6, 2017


No screen policies in restaurants, ethnic cleansing in Burma, open plan offices, Brendan Kelly's new book on mental health, The Plague, washing once a week and more.

Joan Wynn on rugby and her husband's brain cancer

Play Episode Listen Later Oct 6, 2017


Joan Wynn tells the story of her husband, who suffered from a brain tumour after years of playing rugby.

Online terror, tolling our roads, Catalonia, Cosgrave

Play Episode Listen Later Oct 5, 2017


McIlroy on Keane, 15 years for viewing online terror, Liam Cosgrave RIP, direct provision, Catalonia on the verge of independence, stress in your job and Essential Songs

Hard jail time for viewing online terror is crazy

Play Episode Listen Later Oct 5, 2017


Lecturer in Criminology in Kent Simon Cottee tells Ciara why giving substantial jail time to those who view terror online is a stupid idea.

Saving global food production with community farms

Play Episode Listen Later Oct 4, 2017


Lahinch horticulturist Fergal Smith tells Ciara why community farms need to be built to save global food production.

Pesto pasta, VHI cuts and Trump's paper towels

Play Episode Listen Later Oct 4, 2017


Trump's paper towels, rebranding businesses, VHI slash their insurance rates, forgetfulness, pesto pasta is bad for you, female firefighters and community farms.

I don't believe Trump cares about anybody

Play Episode Listen Later Oct 4, 2017


Ciara Kelly was less than impressed with Donald Trump's words and actions in Puerto Rico.

There's no need for tight gun laws

Play Episode Listen Later Oct 3, 2017


Jim Wallace, Director of Gun Owners Action League in Massachussets tells Ciara Kelly why Las Vegas doesn't mean there should be tighter gun control.

Gun control, over-education, and foiled terror attacks

Play Episode Listen Later Oct 3, 2017


The need for gun control, Bishop apologises for HPV vaccine comments, solidarity with Catalonia, foiled terror attack in Paris, outdoors and mental health, Make-It-Meath

America. Where guns are a right; healthcare a privilege

Play Episode Listen Later Oct 3, 2017


Ciara Kelly cannot understand why gun controls are so loose in the US, and why nothing will be done following the Las Vegas massacre.

Could a lack of sleep kill you?

Play Episode Listen Later Oct 2, 2017


Lucy Wolfe of 'Sleep Matters' tells Kieran why getting your sleep health right is so important.

Vegas shooting, smelly workers, can lack of sleep kill?

Play Episode Listen Later Oct 2, 2017


Whole foods against money to the homeless, smelly colleagues, super unions, great Irish brands, Vegas latest, Road Safety Week and can a lack of sleep kill you?

Is society ageist against old, young or both?

Play Episode Listen Later Sep 29, 2017


Sabina Brennan and Harry McCann popped in to discuss whether society is ageist towards the young, old or both. Should the voting age be lowered, for instance?

Could women take over the army?

Play Episode Listen Later Sep 29, 2017


Former army officer Tom Clonan talks to Ciara about the first female marine to pass the Infantry Officer training course, and how women will take over the army.

Ageism, Ryanair, 8th Amendment, female Infantry

Play Episode Listen Later Sep 29, 2017


Kardashians always in the news, the Committee on the 8th Amendment, the future of Ryanair, tricking driverless cars, first female US marine and ageism.

Praising Children, Pop up Gaeltacht and Irish Rail

Play Episode Listen Later Sep 28, 2017


On todays High Noon Ciara Kelly discusses the discovery of an Irish Terror Cell, why praising your children can be bad for them and The Right To Die debate.

Banning alcohol ads, right to die, naming bridges

Play Episode Listen Later Sep 27, 2017


Banning alcohol advertising, Right to Die, third level education for emigrants, naming bridges after women, Breakthrough, tourism VAT rate, Catalonia, funeral costs.

Should the rugby tackle be banned in schools?

Play Episode Listen Later Sep 26, 2017


Professor Allyson Pollock tells Ciara why she wishes she had stopped her children playing rugby a lot sooner than they did.

Wine at the hairdresser, banning school rugby, recycle

Play Episode Listen Later Sep 26, 2017


Banning alcohol in hairdressers, banning school rugby, the Irish pays less tax than most, dementia, too many referendums, the male Pill, how to recycle and more.

Are we in denial about Lyme Disease?

Play Episode Listen Later Sep 25, 2017


Dr Jack Lambert of the Mater Hospital tells Kieran why Lyme Disease doesn't seem to be on health professionals' radars like it should be.

Ireland is the land of opportunity

Play Episode Listen Later Sep 25, 2017


James Parnell tells Kieran how he returned to Ireland from Australia and made a success of himself. He says the country is the 'land of opportunity'.

NFL protests, AfD rise in Germany, Lyme disease denial

Play Episode Listen Later Sep 25, 2017


House prices rising by €500 a week, NFL v Trump, Ireland: the land of opportunity, the future of spending money, German elections fallout, lyme disease and antibiotics.

Sorry science, religion is here to stay

Play Episode Listen Later Sep 22, 2017


UCC's lecturer in Contemporary Islam Amanullah de Sondy tells Ciara why he believes science will never be able to kill of religion completely.

Pensions, birth order, science v religion, no homework

Play Episode Listen Later Sep 22, 2017


Auto enrollment pension schemes, living with schizophrenia, birth order, science isn't killing religion, Thomas Ashe remembered, family time instead of homework and more.

Are superfoods actually good for you?

Play Episode Listen Later Sep 21, 2017


Dietitian Aoife Hearne tells Ciara whether superfoods really are all that - especially after news of faecal bacteria potentially compromising some of them.

Mums want to stay home, rural broadband and brown bread

Play Episode Listen Later Sep 21, 2017


Mums want to stay at home, superfoods, high speed rural broadband, Mary's Meals, Culture Night in Ofaly, Tom Keogh of Keogh's, Brown bread baking and more.

Why can't we be honest about obesity?

Play Episode Listen Later Sep 20, 2017


Author and agony aunt Hilary Freeman has been receiving terrible abuse for not wanting to send her daughter to childcare with morbidly obese carers.

Sex and sleep, the fat shaming taboo and Jimmy Magee

Play Episode Listen Later Sep 20, 2017


Jimmy Magee RIP, people struggling with digital skills, Culture Night in Kerry, Ellen's Oscars tweet, sex and sleep the key to happiness, fat shaming, climate change.

Budget tax changes, fur in fashion, school strictness

Play Episode Listen Later Sep 19, 2017


Tax changes in Budget 2018, fun is still in the fashion industry, focusing on Kilkenny Culture Night, tech security tips, strictness in school and traveling to Turkey.

How strict is too strict at school?

Play Episode Listen Later Sep 19, 2017


Arthur Godsil and Brian Mooney debate the issue of discipline in school. Do schools need to be stricter, or are they too soft?

A&E overcrowding, ghosting and are think-ins pointless?

Play Episode Listen Later Sep 18, 2017


Emergency department overcrowding, Icelandic government collapse, ghosting, Cassani space mission, party think-ins, parental leave and twinning Cobh and Sydney.

Men's sheds, recycling, Christians don't read the Bible

Play Episode Listen Later Sep 15, 2017


Recycling, Greens' think-in, London attack, National Bread Week, Catalonian Independence, Men's sheds, Christians don't read the Bible, migraines and flu season.

4 year olds can't talk, megastorms the norm and housing

Play Episode Listen Later Sep 8, 2017


RTE says 55 is over the hill, 4 year olds can't talk properly, listeners give their solutions to the homeless crisis, megastorms the norm, single women having children.

Is Fine Gael the party of inclusiveness?

Play Episode Listen Later Sep 7, 2017


After Fine Gael's negative reaction to Cllr Brian Murphy's tweets about terrorism, George asks Noel Rock is Fine Gael allows any dissension from anyone.

Hurricane Irma, Freedom Of Speech and Cannabis

Play Episode Listen Later Sep 7, 2017


On today's High Noon George Hook discusses Hurricane Irma, Freedom Of Speech In Universities and Medical Cannabis.

Where in the World? Live from Electric Picnic

Play Episode Listen Later Sep 7, 2017


George Hook pays tribute to the RTE game-show, Where in the World? Host Theresa Lowe braved the elements at Electric Picnic to run the show.

Sky Taxi's, Dementia and Breath Tests

Play Episode Listen Later Sep 6, 2017


On today's High Noon George Hook discusses taxis in the sky, Garda breath tests and World Alzheimer's Awareness Month.

Burma, ambulances and the Left's solutions for housing

Play Episode Listen Later Sep 5, 2017


Left's solutions for the housing crisis, Burma, telephone etiquette, Ireland doesn't need the EU, Starbucks protests, ambulance response times, and Travel Tuesday.

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