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What are the worst movies directed by actors?

9 mins; August 13, 2025

What is in a name?

5 mins; August 13, 2025

The discrimination sex workers face

10 mins; August 13, 2025

Should we all start scrapbooking?

10 mins; August 13, 2025

What is ‘Japanese walking’?

6 mins; August 13, 2025

What are 2025’s biggest wedding trends?

11 mins; August 13, 2025

Should you compliment strangers?

12 mins; August 13, 2025

Why Ireland’s coast is disappearing quicker than it should

5 mins; August 12, 2025

How to look after your dog in a heatwave

6 mins; August 12, 2025

Finding the time to enjoy silence (and why it's important)

11 mins; August 12, 2025

Why Trinity turned their front lawn into a wild meadow

7 mins; August 12, 2025

The history of Dublin’s queer pub scene

6 mins; August 12, 2025

Should Ireland be an ‘AI island’?

17 mins; August 12, 2025

Children facing new school year uprooted from their homes

11 mins; August 12, 2025

Revising the relationship between Elvis and the Colonel

9 mins; August 11, 2025

Is pornography a pathway to criminality?

6 mins; August 11, 2025

New play explores Irish mass emigration programme

9 mins; August 11, 2025

Would you like to live alone? - Henry McKean Asks

18 mins; August 11, 2025

Should Ireland have a complete trade embargo on Israel?

17 mins; August 11, 2025

Have saunas become the new pub?

11 mins; August 08, 2025

Why have sales of convertible cars declined?

13 mins; August 08, 2025

Is there a ‘best’ way to cut a sandwich?

8 mins; August 08, 2025

Does sex really sell magazines?

11 mins; August 08, 2025

Is Google’s AI killing internet search?

6 mins; August 07, 2025

New Palestinian cookbook showcases food culture and history

8 mins; August 07, 2025

Why are people choosing to have dinner early?

10 mins; August 07, 2025

Are lie-in holidays actually beneficial?

4 mins; August 07, 2025

Mountjoy prisoners write book about how they ended up there

17 mins; August 07, 2025

Daniel O’Connell turns 250 - what is his legacy?

13 mins; August 06, 2025

What support exists for drug and alcohol addiction?

9 mins; August 06, 2025

How Oasis reached international stardom

13 mins; August 06, 2025

Does Gen Z have a bad approach to money?

8 mins; August 06, 2025

80 years since Hiroshima’s nuclear bombing

9 mins; August 06, 2025

Women taking partners’ surnames - are Gen Z bringing it back?

13 mins; August 06, 2025

Why did John Wilkes Booth kill Abraham Lincoln?

10 mins; August 05, 2025

How does step-parenting coaching work?

14 mins; August 05, 2025

Why do we love retro football shirts?

9 mins; August 05, 2025

How does gerrymandering work?

9 mins; August 05, 2025

Can being more macho help you to find yourself?

14 mins; August 05, 2025

What is ‘bathroom camping’?

12 mins; August 05, 2025

Enormous stick insect discovered in Australia

6 mins; August 01, 2025

Would you build your home with hemp?

10 mins; August 01, 2025

What it’s like to play in the Poc Fada

9 mins; August 01, 2025

How the music festival has changed

16 mins; August 01, 2025

What was the impact of showbands in Ireland?

9 mins; July 31, 2025

Why does Australia celebrate Christmas in July?

9 mins; July 31, 2025

How does outside world contact impact isolated tribes?

10 mins; July 31, 2025

The Cost of Dating - Henry McKean Reports

20 mins; July 31, 2025

Meta is banning political ads - a good thing?

14 mins; July 31, 2025

Oyster swallowing competition making appeal for women competitors

5 mins; July 30, 2025

Who do house hunters really trust?

13 mins; July 30, 2025

The history of the Sacred Heart

8 mins; July 30, 2025

How does manipulation work?

10 mins; July 30, 2025

Ireland’s ‘Blue Flag Beach Challenge’

7 mins; July 30, 2025

Starvation in Gaza and helplessness - from an Irish perspective

16 mins; July 30, 2025

What it’s like to be an Interpreter

8 mins; July 29, 2025

Can you stop aging by just ignoring it?

12 mins; July 29, 2025

How gross is the airport?

10 mins; July 29, 2025

Why does Chinese Guinness taste so wrong?

7 mins; July 29, 2025

Where are all the hand salutes in cities?

10 mins; July 29, 2025

Experiencing and dealing with psychosis

15 mins; July 29, 2025

The rich folklore within the Irish Traveller community

9 mins; July 28, 2025

What happened to DB Cooper?

13 mins; July 28, 2025

Does your job define you? - Henry McKean Asks

22 mins; July 28, 2025

What will be the future of the Scouts in Ireland?

11 mins; July 28, 2025

How do Russia’s ‘kamikaze’ drones work?

12 mins; July 28, 2025

Who was Lafcadio Hearn?

12 mins; July 25, 2025

Are we witnessing the death of TV?

9 mins; July 25, 2025

What is an ‘AI couples retreat’?

12 mins; July 25, 2025

What makes people indifferent about sport?

10 mins; July 25, 2025

What are the best live album recordings?

9 mins; July 24, 2025

Why has there been a reduction in aid commitments globally?

14 mins; July 24, 2025

Blackspots for footpath parking - Henry McKean Reports

22 mins; July 24, 2025

What is the ‘toy library’?

9 mins; July 24, 2025

New ringfort excavation tells more about ancient Irish society

8 mins; July 23, 2025

The Irish group delivering decommissioned vehicles to Ukraine

6 mins; July 23, 2025

‘Dinosaur fish’ seen to be in Irish waters

8 mins; July 23, 2025

Being the world champion of doing nothing!

7 mins; July 23, 2025

How domestic filming locations are found

10 mins; July 23, 2025

The growing issue of child poverty in one parent families

16 mins; July 23, 2025

The role of romance in Irish Literature.

5 mins; July 22, 2025

The moving statue in Ballinspittle - 40 years on

6 mins; July 22, 2025

How do we define Irishness?

12 mins; July 22, 2025

Why is there no practical driving test for tractors?

8 mins; July 22, 2025

Why is July 22nd unusually short?

13 mins; July 22, 2025

Calls made for dedicated animal crime unit

11 mins; July 22, 2025

Are some people just bad at texting?

12 mins; July 22, 2025

What is the ‘Stop Killing Games’ movement?

7 mins; July 21, 2025

Why Drogheda United has links with Turkey

7 mins; July 21, 2025

Has the nightgown become popular again?

7 mins; July 21, 2025

What is inside this million year old ice?

8 mins; July 21, 2025

What rules do you have for house guests? - Henry McKean Asks

22 mins; July 21, 2025

Has cocaine use in Ireland been normalised?

12 mins; July 21, 2025

Julie Jay and Colm O’Regan on the comedy work-life balance

7 mins; July 18, 2025

Liz Nugent on her latest book ‘Strange Sally Diamond’

16 mins; July 18, 2025

Lost onion basket revived in local community

5 mins; July 17, 2025

Do you make an effort to speak the language abroad?

7 mins; July 17, 2025

Why did Mallorca ban splitting the bill?

5 mins; July 17, 2025

How do we define our own identity?

12 mins; July 17, 2025

Pilot discusses quitting due to climate concerns

8 mins; July 17, 2025

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