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Oliver McTernan, Director of Forward Thinking - a mediation and conflict resolution organisation in the Middle East

Pauk Kenny, Programme Leader at the Retirement Planning Council of Ireland

Prof. Ian Robertson, Fellow Emeritus, TCD School of Psychology.

Paul Deering, Editor of The Sligo Champion

David Smith, Washington Bureau Chief for The Guardian, and Shona Murray Europe correspondent with Euronews

Elaine Burke host of Tech's Sake Podcast

Dermot Goode, Health Insurance Expert with healthinsuranceireland.ie

Hugh Hick, traffic reporter; Graeme McQueen of the DAA; and Claire Percy of Dublin Port

Dr. Emma Howard, Behavioural Economist at TU Dublin

Simon Marks, Chief Correspondent for Feature Story News in Washington

Lorraine Higgins, Team Leader at Ashleigh House, Coolmine Therapeutic Community

Rebecca Horan, broadcaster and podcaster on parenting

Leo Lieghio, road safety campaigner & Sam Waide, CEO of the Road Safety Authority

Caitriona Redmond, food writer and consumer columnist for the Irish Examiner

Rachel Morrogh, Chief Executive Officer of the Dublin Rape Crisis Centre

Scott Bryan, TV critic and broadcaster & Neili Conroy, Sharon Collins in Fair City

Singer Chris Rea has died at the age of 74. Music journalist Simon Maher reflects on the music legends career.

Dublin in now the 11th most congested city in the world. Professor Brian Caulfield is from the Centre for Transport Research at Trinity College Dublin.

Professor Andrea Wigfield, is director of the Centre for Loneliness Studies at Sheffield Hallam University.

Michael Fortune, Folklorist and author of The Folklore of Wexford looks at some of our older Christmas traditions.

Alan O'Reilly from Carlow weather looks ahead to what we can weather-wise over Christmas.

Russian general dies in Moscow car bomb Scott Lucas, Professor of US and International Politics at UCD's Clinton Institute reacts.

journalist and TV fanatic Olivia Fahy runs down her top TV viewing tips this Christmas.

According to reports electronic monitoring – or tagging - of prisoners is to be overseen by a private company. Saoirse Brady Executive Director of the Irish Penal Reform Trust.

The Gardai have said cocaine is 'pouring' into Ireland to supply the Christmas market. Jason fun de Felde is an Emergency Medicine Doctor with Cork University Hospital.

Orla O'Donnell RTE's legal affairs correspondent has the details from the high court.

Boxer Anthony Joshua will take on YouTuber-turned-boxer Jake Paul in a heavyweight bout in Miami tonight. Kevin Byrne, Boxing writer with the Irish Sun & host of ‘The Rocky Road' podcast.

How can we take great photographs of the night sky with our smartphones. Caitriona Mosc from the Connemara Dark Skies and a member of the Connemara Astronomy Club tells Drive Time more

Michael Martin remains as Fianna Fail leader despite continuing disquiet over his handling of Jim Gavin's botched Presidential Election campaign. Drivetime's Barry Lenihan reports.

Psychotherapist Joanna Fortune on her advice for parenting at Christmas.

Bill Browder, Putin's Number One enemy and Head of the Global Magnitsky Justice Campaign & Dr. Patrick Bury, Senior Associate Professor in Security at the University of Bath.