This is a topic close to all our hearts. Niamh and Gearoid are chatting about unhelpful bastards. Gearóid has a story about Boots chemist and Niamh has a band that don't tell her when her make-up runs.

In the mailbag this week we have a date who has become a colleague and a mother who wants to break tradition to make a new tradition.

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