Lunchtime Live

The kitchen is often the hub of the home – but if you have a small space, how do you make the most of it? 

Our home squad are on hand to help! Irish Examiner columnist and former winner of ‘Home of the Year’ , Jenny Sheahan and Sarah from Sand and Deliver DIY joined Andrea on the show  

Roy Keane has admitted he moves wipers and wing mirrors as revenge to drivers who badly park their cars. Is his approach too much? Or do people get away too easily with bad parking? 

Andrea got listeners take on this.

Bell's palsy is a condition that causes sudden weakness in the muscles on one side of the face. Andrea spoke to listeners who suffered from this condition and shared their experience

We have some interesting insights from the latest Newstalk Amárach poll.  Figures show that 77% of people agree that it's too expensive to go to sports events as a family. 

Andrea was joined by listeners who gave their reaction

It's Throwback Thursday! Where we look back on things that happened this week in history.

98fm’s Ciaran O’Connor is back and he joins Andrea Gilligan to rewind the clock…

Andrea was live from Kilkenny and who better to show her around than our own Kilkenny local, Kieran Cuddihy

Kilkenny has a long history of elite athletes and with the Olympics kicking off in Paris this weekend, we wanted to chat to some of the former competitors that hail from  the Marble City. 

Andrea was joined by Boxer, Darren O’Neill,Eileen O’Keefe who competed in the hammer throw at the Beijing Olympics and by racewalker, Perri Williams

Kilkenny may not have, on the surface of things, seemed the most obvious place to become a hub for animation. 

But, the city hosts not one, but two multi award winning animations studio as well as a festival, Kilkenny Animated, that celebrates creativity and the craft of the visual image. Andrea was joined by Paul Young, Co- founder & Creative Director of Cartoon Saloon, Claire Finn, Managing Director at Lighthouse Studios to discuss this.

A new funding model for RTÉ is due to be signed off by Government later today . It will see the TV licence remain at its current rate of €160 per year, and will also see but  €725m of public money being pumped into the broadcaster over the next three years. Andrea was joined by John McGuinness, Fianna Fail TD for Carlow-Kilkenny to discuss the funding model

Lunchtime Live's Reasons to be Happy looks at some of the news stories that you might have missed that will leave you feeling more optimistic.  Killian Ginnity from Newstalk's digital team joined Andrea on the show