Lunchtime Live

From sitting the Leaving cert at 83 to being trapped in a lion enclosure – Breakfast briefing Presenter Shane Beatty has a roundup of stories from around the country you might have missed!

Electric picnic kicks off this weekend – and it can be hard to believe that it’s the 20th Anniversary!

Andrea Gilligan is joined by listeners including Arts Journalist and Broadcaster Pat Carty and Today FM’s Cathal O’Sullivan to share some of their favourite memories from the festival!

Creating home bars has been growing in popularity over the past while, whether it’s out in the shed, or under the stairs!

Our Home Squad are here with advice if you’ve a mind to make your own.

Andrea is joined by Roisin Lafferty, Founder and Creative Director of Roisin Lafferty and Hayley Burke, The DIYist to discuss.

It’s an exciting time for women’s football in Ireland – following Ireland’s World Cup debut there is a lot of buzz about the talent in Ireland. But, who are the names to keep an eye out for over the next few years? 

Kathleen McNamee - Host of the COYGIG Podcast is with me to tell me about some of the rising stars.

(Part 2 of our FAI/Cadbury series)

Maebhe Gorman was diagnosed with a life-limiting genetic disease about a year ago, and tragically passed away last week.

Maebhe had a rare genetic condition that affects the brain, known as Metachromatic Leukodystrophy late infantile form. Her family are calling for the condition to be screened for in Ireland, as it is in most other countries.

Andrea Gilligan is joined by Maebhe’s aunt, Carol Gorman, to discuss.

Do you find voice notes annoying? Apparently, recent research from Pure Telecom says three quarters of us think they shouldn’t be more than a minute long, and some just don’t like them at all.

To discuss (not through voice note!), Andrea is joined by Esther McCarthy - Life and Style Daily Features Editor for the Irish Examiner, Off the Ball’s Nathan Murphy and Ciara Treacy from Newstalk’s Digital Team.

It's Throwback Thursday! Where we look back on things that happened this week in history. 98fm’s Ciaran O’Connor joins Andrea Gilligan once more to rewind the clock…

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Wizz Air has announced it’s launching a subscription service offering unlimited flights to those who sign up.

The Hungarian airline’s “all you can fly scheme” is being offered at an introductory price for a limited time.

A year’s subscription will set you back €499 before this Friday, when it will rise to €599.

The membership is inclusive of all flights across the company’s substantial international network, which includes 950 routes across Europe, North Africa, the Middle East and Asia.

What do you think about this approach?

Andrea Gilligan is joined by listeners to discuss.

Spin 1038fm presenter Michaela Hayes tells Andrea about her own experiences living with a stoma as M&S launch a brand of stoma underwear

For this week’s Ask the Expert, Andrea Gilligan is joined by Pat Keville from Plantstore.ie to answer all of you houseplant questions