Travel enthusiast and Galway businesswoman, Lisa Regan chats to Brendan about the most charming cities to visit for the perfect cosy winter city break.

With the arrival of secondhand clothes re-sellers Vinted in Ireland, Moya Doogan founder of Environmental Eadaí joins Brendan to talk about sustainable shopping, how to buy and sell clothes online and how secondhand shopping is back in style.

Tech Entrepeneur and journalist Mark Little reflected on Donal Trump’s electoral landslide this week, and about the roles of podcasts, AI and misinformation that came to the fore during the US Presidential campaign.

Joining Dearbhail to discuss the stories of the week were Dr Kieran Hickey, Climatologist with the Dept of Geography at UCC, Louise Burne, Political Correspondent with The Irish Mirror, Prof Alan Barrett, Director of the ESRI, and columnist Brenda Power.

Writer and podcaster Esther O’Moore Donohoe, and Film Correspondent for the Irish Times Donald Clarke deliver their verdict on the TV shows and movies of the week ahead.

Hollywood has long been obsessed with the inner workings of the White House and who is seated in the Oval Office. As the election race itself has become stranger than fiction, writer Edel Coffey picks apart the irresistible myth of the American president on screen.

Actor Ruairi Conaghan's uncle Rory Conaghan was killed by the IRA in 1974. He explains how, years later, the trauma came to the surface for him while playing roles  including prominent IRA members as well as Shakespearean characters.

TV Presenter Carol Vorderman talks about growing up in poverty, her years on Channel 4's Countdown and why in the last two years she has got involved in trying to change British politics. Her new book is Now What?: On a Mission to Fix Broken Britain

Pulitzer Prize winning author Richard Ford looks ahead to the US election on Tuesday.

Musician Niall Breslin AKA Bressie on his new podcast series The Madman's Hotel, charting the story of Julia Leonard who was committed to an asylum over 100 years ago after accusing her husband of adultery. The podcast also charts the dark history of Ireland's 'lunatic asylums'.