Every year at Leaving Cert results time, you’ll hear that the results don’t mean everything - and that there are many career options ahead of you. For example, we have a shortage of many different types of tradespeople. Iarnród Éireann is staging an event called ‘Try a Trade’ to highlight the range of apprenticeships available.

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Are curtains cancelled?

The so-called ‘Dutch method’ suggests sleeping with them open, letting early sunlight wake you naturally and reset your body clock. The Dutch have long embraced bare windows in the name of openness and community.

But in the age of blackout blinds and privacy paranoia, are curtains out of fashion - or are we just not ready for the neighbours to see quite that much of us?

Joining Seán to discuss is Róisín Murphy, Interior Designer.

A new report from an organisation representing Irish interests in the UK shows just how difficult it is for the Irish community to have a ‘good Irish death’, with cultural differences around end of life care proving to be a significant hurdle.

Joining Seán to discuss is Brian Dalton, Chief Executive of Irish in Britain…

The iconic Ford Fiesta is turning 50 this year, the beloved hatchback was a bestseller and still tops the secondhand market. So how did the Fiesta become such a titan of the motor industry? And if sales were so good, why did production end?

Joining Seán to discuss is Senior Contributor to Classic & Sports Car Magazine and contributor to the Daily Telegraph, Simon Hucknall.

It is 10 years this month since the government introduced the dog chipping scheme. So, has it been a success and what still needs to be done to make it more effective?

Joining Seán to discuss is Conor Dowling, Chief Inspector for the NSPCA…

Japanese scientists have created a new breed of onion, known as the ‘smile ball’, which does not make the eyes water when it is chopped.

Renowned Chef Dean Diplock joins Seán to discuss tearless onions, and some of the oddest ways people try to avoid crying when chopping onions.

When the Canadian actor Jim Carey recently accepted an honorary prize at the prestigious César Awards in France, the internet was aghast at his look and behaviour, slowly becoming convinced that the man who gave the speech was not actually Carey at all…

Joining Seán to untangle all of this is film critic Brian Lloyd…

The results from the latest CSO baby names report shows a grá for gender neutral names, but why?

Joining Seán to discuss this is Darach Ó Séaghdha, author of ‘Motherfoclóir’ and ‘Craic Baby’...

A Dublin school’s aquaponics project has been such a success that it now supplies its produce to a Michelin-starred restaurant.

Joining Seán to discuss is Simon O’Donnell, who looks after the Urban Farm Project at Belvedere College in Dublin’s north inner city…

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Thousands of protected marine animals including grey seals, dolphins, angel sharks and flapper skates are drowning in tangle nets set for crayfish off Ireland’s west coast…

New figures from Ireland’s Marine Institute show the deaths are happening inside Special Areas of Conservation, raising serious questions about why the State has not acted on risks identified years ago.

Joining Seán to discuss this is Pádraic Fogarty, Environmental Campaigner.