Talkabout

A Cahersiveen Youth Group Win Radharc Trust Award at the Ireland’s Young Filmmaker of the Year Awards for their powerful documentary – Home from Home. The film by Cahersiveen Youth Film Group was supported by Kerry Local Creative Youth Partnership (LCYP) at Kerry Education and Training Board (Kerry ETB), and created in collaboration with filmmaker Clint Fitzgerald. It was announced as a winner at the red-carpet ceremony hosted by the Fresh Film Festival in Dublin’s Rathmines Omniplex. David was joined in studio by Deirdre Enright, Creative Youth Co-ordinator at Kerry LCYP; filmmaker Clint Fitzgerald, Iryna Puzdria & Tetyana Olkhovska of the South Kerry Development Partnership, and Soffia, Margarita and Dimo who starred in and created the documentary.

West Kerry man John McKenna, who’s from Castlegregory, chats to David about his appointment as Chief Executive Officer of the NSW Ports Authority and life in Australia

George Fonsie-Mealy – Director of Fonsie-Mealy Auctioneers talks to David about Fonsie-Mealy’s upcoming auction which features an All Ireland medal won by Kerry in their first All Ireland football success in 1903. Another from 1904, as well as other fascinating sporting and historical memorabilia and artifacts from the Kingdom.

Medical Matters with Dr Eamonn Shanahan

Fine Gael Cllr Tommy Griffin joins David after he was notified of illegal dumping in Milltown on the eve of the county clean up. The rubbish was only collected on Monday, which Cllr Griffin says isn’t good enough by the power at be at Clúid housing

There’s been a Surge in recorded sightings of basking sharks on Kerry’s shores in the last number of weeks – including 3 at Binn Bán, and up to 20 at Slea Head on Saturday. David is joined by Emily De Loose – project leader and data scientist of the Atlantic Whale Deal in the Irish Whale and Dolphin Group & conference organiser for the Irish Basking Shark Group – to discuss the rise in basking sharks on Kerry shores.

Bridget Deevy, Arts Programme Assistant Manager at Age & Opportunity joins David to tell him about the upcoming Bealtaine festival, which has a programme of local events.

Dearbhla O’Brien, CEO of Drinkaware, joins David tot discuss new data, which reveals that 45% of adults are now more likely to drink at home than in the past year, and 45% of adults say they now spend more on alcohol for home consumption than in pubs and restaurants, with this figure peaking at 53% among weekly drinkers. -

Rory McIlroy win’s the Augusta Masters and completes the career grand slam In a rollercoaster weekend he showed mental strength, resilience and overcame great adversity to claim the green jacket. Killarney Golf enthusiast and Senior Consultant at Red Chair Recruitment, Michael Cotter talks about how the qualities of McIlroy are inspirational not only on the golf and sporting field but also in the workplace.

Paul Kavanagh from McCarthy Insurance Group joins David for Insurance Matters

Has gig etiquette gone out the window. After his recent show in Dublin’s 3 Arena David Gray took to social media about the “out of control crowd” at last Friday weeks gig – saying he never heard such a rowdy audience. Kerry journalist, John O’Mahony of Killarney Today was at the concert and describes the experience