Jerry spoke to Irish Times journalist Patsy McGarry who wrote a column about our habit of bestowing sainthood on scoundrels and rogues, simply because they’ve died. https://www.irishtimes.com/culture/2024/10/28/it-can-be-galling-to-hear-rogues-lauded-as-gods-gift-to-humanity-in-eulogies-at-funeral-services/

Leinster House was on recess this week so John Downing of the Irish Independent and Jerry took the opportunity to recall  funny, mad and downright daft events in Irish politics down through the decades.

David O’Sullivan of DC Energy Solutions, Glenbeigh joins Jerry on the first Friday of the month to answer your home heating and energy conservation questions. The feature is sponsored by Boyles of Killorglin.

David McCarthy, who’s from Farmer’s Bridge, just outside Tralee, spoke to Jerry about the disaster.

Colleen E. Morey is the founder and president of the Light and Life Foundation who help children with additional needs in an orphanage in Bogota, Colombia.

Tomorrow, Friday November 1st, a fundraiser for the charity will take place at Killarney Leisure Centre.

Teenagers and young adults in their early to mid-20s – Gen Z-ers – have a language all of their own. ‘Slay’, ‘cap’ and ‘rizz’ – do you know what these words mean to them? Jennifer Keating, a Gen Z-er herself and a UL student on work placement in Radio Kerry, helps translate for older generations. Jennifer also interviewed Jane Cowan who writes the column, Diary of a Gen Z Student, for the Irish Examiner.

Yesterday, President Michael D. Higgins officially pardoned two Kerry men wrongfully hanged for murder in 1883. 38-year-old Sylvester Poff and 24-year-old James Barrett were convicted of murdering Thomas Browne in Dromulton, near Currow on 3rd October, 1882. Jerry spoke to Tomo Burke from Castleisland who is a great grandson of Sylvester Poff. Tomo's grandmother died when he was 16 and he remembers people talking to her about the executions. Jerry also spoke to Louise Browne, who lives in London. James Barrett was her great grand uncle. Both attended yesterday’s ceremony in Áras an Uachtaráin.

Jim Clarken, CEO of Oxfam Ireland, says that inheritance tax is a means of tackling inequality and should be retained.

Minister of State for the Gaeltacht, Sport and Physical Education, TD Thomas Byrne, is in Killarney where he launched this year’s Oireachtas na Samhna Festival.

Jerry spoke to journalist Anne Lucey who reported in the Irish Examiner this morning that gardaí have sent a file to the Director of Public Prosecutions regarding alleged voter irregularity in Kenmare on the day of the local and European elections in June.