Lunchtime Live

Halloween is right around the corner, and yet shops are stocked with Christmas decorations. Brown Thomas on Grafton Street has had it’s Christmas shop open since August.  

Have we all gone Christmas mad? Is October too early to be getting ready for Christmas? Andrea was joined by listeners to discuss...

President Michael D Higgins says Ursula von der Leyen is ‘not speaking for Ireland’ following comments she made on the Palestine / Israel conflict last Friday. 

He criticised the head of the European Commission for a failure to call for Israel's retaliation to conform with international law.

Is President Higgins right to speak out on this? Andrea was joined by listeners to discuss...

Director and Writer Richard Curtis has promised never to make “fat” jokes in his work again. 

He’s famous for films like Love Actually, Four Weddings and a Funeral and Notting Hill and says he feels bad about lines in his films that are no longer funny. 

Andrea was joined by listeners to discuss...

As the cost-of-living crisis continues to bite across the country, Newstalk is here to help with a new online series highlighting the best ways to save on your bills.

Cut-the-Cost will offer tips and advice on how to save on everything from energy and the weekly shop to modern essentials like broadband and phone contracts.

Aoife Kearns, from our news team has done the hard work and sourced the best deals for your groceries...

Halloween is right around the corner. If you have children in school you’ll probably be bombarded with costume parties. 

We want to talk about whether children’s costumes are another way for parents to get competitive?  

Andrea was joined by parents to discuss...

Thousands of Polish nationals queued outside the Polish embassy in Dublin over the weekend to cast their votes in their country’s election. 

Would you like to see Irish citizens overseas be given the right to vote in our elections? 

Andrea Gilligan was joined by listeners to discuss...

‘Ask Me Anything’ is a new series every Friday on Lunchtime Live. Over the next number of weeks we will be chatting to people from different backgrounds, people who have weird or wonderful occupations or people who have had incredible experiences.  

And, we want you to ask the questions. You can put whatever questions you like to our guest and we will put it to them.  

Kicking off our series Former Prisoner Wayne Hart joined Andrea in studio.

In his life Wayne has spent almost 17 years in prison. He has since turned his life around having left prison for the final time in 2005 and has helped young prisoners reform...

12 year old Sarah Griffin was put into an induced coma after being rushed to hospital with difficulty breathing from vaping. 

In support of Northern Ireland Chest Heart & Stroke’s new vaping awareness campaign, Sarah’s mother Mary joined Andrea on Lunchtime Live to discuss...

On 12th January 2015, Anne Marie’s son Max was stillborn at almost 42 weeks. To mark Baby Loss Awareness Week, Anne Marie joined Andrea to tell her story to increase awareness around baby loss. 

Andrea was also joined on Lunchtime Live by Kinga and Professor Keelin O'Donoghue is a consultant obstetrician at Cork University Maternity Hospital...

We are counting down to the Rugby World Cup Quarter Finals between Ireland and New Zealand tomorrow night at 8pm in Paris. 

This could be our moment to push beyond the quarter final stages for the first time ever. 

Has rugby overtaken football as the game that can lift a nation? Has this World Cup turned us into a rugby nation? 

Andrea was joined by listeners to discuss...