Brendan O'Connor
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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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Newspaper Panel
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Nov 16, 2025 |
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Your guide to (finally!) buying a proper raincoat
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Nov 16, 2025 |
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"Could AI have a goal to destroy us?" "Yes"
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Nov 16, 2025 |
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The Watchlist
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Nov 16, 2025 |
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"Acne affects 35% of women and 20% of men"
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Nov 15, 2025 |
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A Roast Chicken Masterclass with Chef Rory O'Connell
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Nov 15, 2025 |
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"I fell asleep during my love scene with Roger Moore" - Jane Seymour
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Nov 15, 2025 |
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Navigating the Momosphere - "The mums DO say it's all on them"
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Nov 15, 2025 |
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"Obesity stigma is rising due to new weight-loss drugs" - Prof. Donal O'Shea
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Nov 15, 2025 |
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The Newspaper Panel
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Nov 09, 2025 |
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“I almost stole Bowie’s stubbed out cigarette!” - Ian Dempsey
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Nov 09, 2025 |
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You’ve Still Got a Friend in Me – Toy Story turns 30
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Nov 09, 2025 |
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The Watchlist
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Nov 09, 2025 |
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Does COP30 have a marketing problem?
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Nov 08, 2025 |
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How to look after your microbiome while it looks after you.
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Nov 08, 2025 |
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The soup recipes you need for cold dark winter days
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Nov 08, 2025 |
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“I had a deep fear that I would be a bad dad because of my childhood” - Richard Hogan
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Nov 08, 2025 |
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Farewell Uachtarán Michael D Higgins!
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Nov 08, 2025 |
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“At 30, the last thing I thought was happening to me was a stroke” - influencer Shauna Lindsay
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Nov 08, 2025 |
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Newspaper Panel
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Nov 02, 2025 |
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Lily Allen - "This is a work of auto fiction... not gospel"
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Nov 02, 2025 |
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The Watchlist
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Nov 02, 2025 |
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Colm Tóibín - "A good love story for me has snarls"
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Nov 02, 2025 |
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Clodagh McKenna "My mother would Irish dance with us in the lift!"
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Nov 01, 2025 |
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High blood pressure, the silent killer
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Nov 01, 2025 |
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Jeremy Irons - "It was only after boarding school I really started to connect with my emotions"
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Nov 01, 2025 |
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What fishing teaches you about living well and embracing nature
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Nov 01, 2025 |
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Manchán Mangan's month's mind - "There's hundreds gathered here to remember him"
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Nov 01, 2025 |
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“I picked his brain” - Reese Witherspoon and Harlan Coben
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Oct 26, 2025 |
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“Younger people are grasping for authenticity” - Mark Little
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Oct 26, 2025 |
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The Watchlist
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Oct 26, 2025 |
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Newspaper Panel
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Oct 26, 2025 |
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“It’s President Connolly!” - Presidential Election Results Panel
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Oct 25, 2025 |
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“A committed, long-term relationship with pain” - David Gillick
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Oct 25, 2025 |
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“I’m tickled pink!” - Mary Coughlan on Catherine Connolly’s win
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Oct 25, 2025 |
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The Newspaper Panel
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Oct 19, 2025 |
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Bressie - "It seems my bogger accent transmits at a calming frequency”
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Oct 19, 2025 |
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The Watchlist
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Oct 19, 2025 |
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Is Halloween the new Christmas for Gen Z?
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Oct 19, 2025 |
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“There is no usual victim of a scam; intelligence or wealth don't matter”
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Oct 18, 2025 |
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“We are not really individuals; we live within so many webs of connection” - Dr. Trudy Meehan on grieving suicide
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Oct 18, 2025 |
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Royal Expert, Jennie Bond on Prince Andrew losing his royal titles
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Oct 18, 2025 |
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“I need to find myself an older person now to get on their bus pass!”
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Oct 18, 2025 |
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Not just for baked beans – are you making the most of your microwave?
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Oct 18, 2025 |
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Elizabeth Day “So much of class is unspoken but codified”
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Oct 18, 2025 |
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The Newspaper Panel
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Oct 12, 2025 |
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“Like the Kardashians on an album” - the intergenerational appeal of Fleetwood Mac
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Oct 12, 2025 |
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“If you’re meditating well, you’re not meditating” - Michael Harding
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Oct 12, 2025 |
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The Watchlist
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Oct 12, 2025 |
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“I remember jumping up and down like a spoilt child” Andy Farrell
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Oct 11, 2025 |
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What is Melatonin?
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Oct 11, 2025 |
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“We don’t have to like each other...” Colum McCann
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Oct 11, 2025 |
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Hearty Autumn Pasta Recipes with Catherine Fulvio
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Oct 11, 2025 |
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‘America's Favourite Poet’
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Oct 11, 2025 |
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“Men, we will not eat you!” Róisín and Ann Ingle
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Oct 11, 2025 |
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The Newspaper Panel
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Oct 05, 2025 |
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“I slept on a Cambodian pool table for a month” - Baz Ashmawy
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Oct 05, 2025 |
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As Taylor Swift’s frenemies decode her latest album for shade – music journalist Jenn Gannon gives us her view.
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Oct 05, 2025 |
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The Watchlist
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Oct 05, 2025 |
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"I filmed my mother, drunk and asleep on a public bench” - Myrid Carten, filmmaker
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Oct 04, 2025 |
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Caring for your eyes as you age with Opthalmic surgeon, Kirk Stephenson
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Oct 04, 2025 |
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“Break ups? They’re bloody hard!” - Richard Hogan
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Oct 04, 2025 |
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Manchán Magan's final interview
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Oct 04, 2025 |
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“Swedes are like Dubs: they have notions!”
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Oct 04, 2025 |
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Remembering Manchán Magan: “He didn’t fear death, like the rest of us”
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Oct 04, 2025 |
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A soda bread masterclass with Darina Allen
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Oct 04, 2025 |
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The Newspaper Panel
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Sep 28, 2025 |
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The Watchlist
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Sep 28, 2025 |
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Does a million-year-old skull change our understanding of evolution?
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Sep 28, 2025 |
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“When you hit rock bottom... there is only one way up” Una Leonard
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Sep 28, 2025 |
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How to batch cook your way to a stress-free week with chef Alannah Sheehan
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Sep 27, 2025 |
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Your guide to vaccine season
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Sep 27, 2025 |
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“My life stopped, his didn’t”- Blathnaid Raleigh, rape survivor
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Sep 27, 2025 |
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Are competitive people born or made? Performance coach Enda McNulty gives his verdict
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Sep 27, 2025 |
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“There's no one way to build a house in Ireland” - Harrison Gardner
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Sep 27, 2025 |
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Zlata Filipovic - From war to MTV to 30 years in Ireland
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Sep 27, 2025 |
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"A pompous but likable buffoon" - Alan Partridge profiled
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Sep 21, 2025 |
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"An Cailín Ciúin made me a legitimate actor" - Carrie Crowley
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Sep 21, 2025 |
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The Watchlist
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Sep 21, 2025 |
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Newspaper Panel
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Sep 21, 2025 |
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How to Calm Down
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Sep 20, 2025 |
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Brenda Fricker at 80: "I can't remember not wanting to die."
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Sep 20, 2025 |
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Bob Geldof "I probably WOULD have run for Fianna Fáil as President"
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Sep 20, 2025 |
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The Newspaper Panel
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Sep 14, 2025 |
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“Inclusive classrooms make all kids cleverer, more empathetic and happier” - Jamie Oliver on dyslexia
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Sep 14, 2025 |
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Anti-depressant poems for darker days
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Sep 14, 2025 |
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The Watchlist
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Sep 14, 2025 |
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Gráinne Mullins: The Joy of Chocolate
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Sep 13, 2025 |
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"There are dead skin cells everywhere, and dust mites loves them!”
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Sep 13, 2025 |
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Leo Varadkar: "If I hadn't gone into politics, I'd be an angry man on Twitter"
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Sep 13, 2025 |
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“I have no fear of death” - Manchán Magan
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Sep 13, 2025 |
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Ciara O’Brien: Charlie Kirk’s Shooting and Disturbing Online Video
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Sep 13, 2025 |
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The Newspaper Panel
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Sep 07, 2025 |
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‘Touching grass’, Gen-Z's fight back against big tech
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Sep 07, 2025 |
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“Dance with the Season Change!”
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Sep 07, 2025 |
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The Watchlist
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Sep 07, 2025 |
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Could Nigel Farage be the next UK Prime Minister?
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Sep 06, 2025 |
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Could Dwayne ‘The Rock’ Johnson be heading for an Oscar?
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Sep 06, 2025 |
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Alicia Silverstone “I was very naughty on the DART”
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Sep 06, 2025 |
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“You make a deal with Parkinson’s”
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Sep 06, 2025 |