Brendan O'Connor

1006 - Colm Tóibín - "A good love story for me has snarls"

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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1006 - Colm Tóibín - "A good love story for me has snarls"

Sun, 02 Nov 2025
1005 - The Watchlist

Sun, 02 Nov 2025
1004 - Lily Allen - "This is a work of auto fiction... not gospel"

Sun, 02 Nov 2025
1003 - Newspaper Panel

Sun, 02 Nov 2025
1002 - Manchán Mangan's month's mind - "There's hundreds gathered here to remember him"

Sat, 01 Nov 2025
1001 - What fishing teaches you about living well and embracing nature

Sat, 01 Nov 2025
1000 - Jeremy Irons - "It was only after boarding school I really started to connect with my emotions"

Sat, 01 Nov 2025
999 - High blood pressure, the silent killer

Sat, 01 Nov 2025
998 - Clodagh McKenna "My mother would Irish dance with us in the lift!"

Sat, 01 Nov 2025
996 - Newspaper Panel

Sun, 26 Oct 2025
995 - The Watchlist

Sun, 26 Oct 2025
994 - “Younger people are grasping for authenticity” - Mark Little

Sun, 26 Oct 2025
993 - “I picked his brain” - Reese Witherspoon and Harlan Coben

Sun, 26 Oct 2025
992 - “I’m tickled pink!” - Mary Coughlan on Catherine Connolly’s win

Sat, 25 Oct 2025
991 - “A committed, long-term relationship with pain” - David Gillick

Sat, 25 Oct 2025
990 - “It’s President Connolly!” - Presidential Election Results Panel

Sat, 25 Oct 2025
989 - Is Halloween the new Christmas for Gen Z?

Sun, 19 Oct 2025
988 - The Watchlist

Sun, 19 Oct 2025
987 - Bressie - "It seems my bogger accent transmits at a calming frequency”

Sun, 19 Oct 2025
986 - The Newspaper Panel

Sun, 19 Oct 2025
985 - Elizabeth Day “So much of class is unspoken but codified”

Sat, 18 Oct 2025
984 - Not just for baked beans – are you making the most of your microwave?

Sat, 18 Oct 2025
983 - “I need to find myself an older person now to get on their bus pass!”

Sat, 18 Oct 2025
982 - Royal Expert, Jennie Bond on Prince Andrew losing his royal titles

Sat, 18 Oct 2025
981 - “We are not really individuals; we live within so many webs of connection” - Dr. Trudy Meehan on grieving suicide

Sat, 18 Oct 2025
980 - “There is no usual victim of a scam; intelligence or wealth don't matter”

Sat, 18 Oct 2025
979 - The Watchlist

Sun, 12 Oct 2025
978 - “If you’re meditating well, you’re not meditating” - Michael Harding

Sun, 12 Oct 2025
977 - “Like the Kardashians on an album” - the intergenerational appeal of Fleetwood Mac

Sun, 12 Oct 2025
976 - The Newspaper Panel

Sun, 12 Oct 2025
975 - “Men, we will not eat you!” Róisín and Ann Ingle

Sat, 11 Oct 2025
974 - “I remember jumping up and down like a spoilt child” Andy Farrell

Sat, 11 Oct 2025
973 - ‘America's Favourite Poet’

Sat, 11 Oct 2025
972 - Hearty Autumn Pasta Recipes with Catherine Fulvio

Sat, 11 Oct 2025
971 - “We don’t have to like each other...” Colum McCann

Sat, 11 Oct 2025
970 - What is Melatonin?

Sat, 11 Oct 2025
969 - The Watchlist

Sun, 05 Oct 2025
968 - As Taylor Swift’s frenemies decode her latest album for shade – music journalist Jenn Gannon gives us her view.

Sun, 05 Oct 2025
967 - “I slept on a Cambodian pool table for a month” - Baz Ashmawy

Sun, 05 Oct 2025
966 - The Newspaper Panel

Sun, 05 Oct 2025
965 - A soda bread masterclass with Darina Allen

Sat, 04 Oct 2025
964 - Remembering Manchán Magan: “He didn’t fear death, like the rest of us”

Sat, 04 Oct 2025
963 - “Swedes are like Dubs: they have notions!”

Sat, 04 Oct 2025
962 - Manchán Magan's final interview

Sat, 04 Oct 2025
961 - “Break ups? They’re bloody hard!” - Richard Hogan

Sat, 04 Oct 2025
960 - Caring for your eyes as you age with Opthalmic surgeon, Kirk Stephenson

Sat, 04 Oct 2025
959 - "I filmed my mother, drunk and asleep on a public bench” - Myrid Carten, filmmaker

Sat, 04 Oct 2025
958 - “When you hit rock bottom... there is only one way up” Una Leonard

Sun, 28 Sep 2025
957 - Does a million-year-old skull change our understanding of evolution?

Sun, 28 Sep 2025
956 - The Watchlist

Sun, 28 Sep 2025