Well, the man himself is back from Ireland and on the tunes and of course there is a Joe Dolan track but plenty of other great Irish bands, new and old. We have a great interview with Clare man Pa Sheehan who will be teaching a course in Irish Studies at St. Michael's college starting 3rd September you can register here https://stmikes.utoronto.ca/program/irish-studies-course-ce-registration

Our guest this week is Chair of the board Nine Ships, Brendan Moher. An amazing story of 9 ships that sailed from Cork in 1825 to Canada and the more than 2,000 settlers that landed and developed Peterborough County. There will be many activities throughout 2025 commemorating the bicentennial in the area so stay tuned.

Enjoy the great music selection from Irish musicians, The Chieftains and Van Morrison, Jim McCann, The Cranberries, Maura O'Connell, Stephen Doherty and The Pogues.

Our first show of August, we have two wonderful guests. Eileen O'Toole joins Ken to chat about the Drumshanbo Written Word Festival, not only that, Eileen reads and sings for us, what an entertainer! https://drumshanbowrittenword.ie/⁠

We also have Cheryl Prashker the artistic director of the Goderich Celtic Folk Festival on for a chat, one not to be missed. https://www.celticfestival.ca/

Brilliant Irish music from The tumbling Paddies, Lorraine Nash, Reillys, Sinead Black, Cathal Dunne and Colm Mac Con Iomaire

Ken manages the great Irish tunes this week as Mark left for Ireland.

Our Reliance Home comfort guest this week; Sean Egan from The Chieftains GAA Club, along with some youth members to chat about their trip to the CYC in Boston

It’s all Ireland hurling weekend and Mark fires up the going home tunes as he prepares to head back to the homeland. Will Joe Dolan be featured?

Panti Bliss joins us for a great chat about the upcoming show here in Toronto and life experiences. We will have some great tunes by Irish musicians.

Sandra Moffatt from Tourism Ireland joins us to chat about the latest numbers for travel to Ireland and Mark is on the tunes.

All the latest sports is covered as usual.

Ken rolls the tunes from great Irish musicians and bands and Dónal Kearney from the Irish band TRÚ joins us for a chat.

The lads cover all the sport; GAA, soccer and golf.

The Two Johnnies are our special guests this week as they arrive in Toronto as part of their North American tour.

As we celebrate Canada day long weekend Ken selects some of our great local Toronto artists to fill out the playlist. We chat all things sport and Irish goings on