Never Have I Ever with Claire Byrne

Synthpop band Duran Duran, best known for their iconic 1980s music and image, are coming to Malahide Castle in Dublin on June 30th and Virgin Media Park in Cork on July 1st. Joining Anton to chat about their career and the enduring popularity of their music is Duran Duran Drummer, Roger Taylor. 

Anton is joined in studio by Féilim O’Connor & Morgan Buckley to talk about the book they have co-authored with Gavin Drea called Irish Baby Names-What They Mean and How to Pronounce Them.

President Trump has authorised the deployment of 2,000 National Guard troops to Los Angeles, amid ongoing protests in response to an immigration crackdown which has seen tens of thousands of people detained or deported from the United States. Highlighting this renewed crackdown, we also saw reports that a Donegal man is facing deportation, having joined the waiting list for green card applications three years ago. John Foley, Immigration Attorney based in Boston &Paul Brandus, West Wing Reports founder and White House Bureau Chief, join Anton to discuss.

Joining Anton to go through the main stories from the Sunday papers is Former Leader of the Labour Party, Pat Rabbitte; John Cunningham, Relationship Director, Morgan McKinley; and Christina Finn, Political Editor with The Journal.

Ten cattle were killed after the tree they were sheltering under was struck by lightning in Butlersbridge in Co. Cavan yesterday. Brendan Smith, Fianna Fáil TD for Cavan-Monaghan, joins Anton to discuss.

Drone delivery company, Manna Aero, this week signed contracts for one million daily delivery flights with three of the world’s biggest food delivery firms. Bobby Healy, founder and chief executive of Manna Aero, joins Anton to discuss the expansion of operations and his plans for the future.

Joining Anton to answer all of your veterinary questions for this week's Ask the Expert is Pete the Vet.

This week, the CSO released information from its Recreation in Nature series, looking at the activities we got up to in the great outdoors last summer. Joining Anton to chat about the benefits of being outdoors and how to enjoy the natural surroundings we have on our doorstep is chartered psychologist, neuroscientist, and author, Sabina Bennan; Maura Kiely, Chief Executive Officer of Leave No Trace Ireland; and Teena Gates, broadcast journalist with the Bauer Group.

In a falling out that was as caustic as it was inevitable, the world’s most powerful man and the world’s richest man traded some very public barbs in a showdown over a landmark Republican spending bill. Lurching from threats of terminating Tesla’s governmental subsidies to claims that Trump was “in the Epstein files”, Scott Lucas, Professor of International Politics at the Clinton Institute, University College Dublin, joins Anton to discuss where it all went wrong for Elon Musk and Donald Trump.

40 years ago on June 5th, 1985, the Chicago Cubs hosted the Atlanta Braves at Wrigley Field in the smash hit 1980s movie 'Ferris Bueller's Day Off'. Henry McKean was on the streets of Dublin, asking people if they ever skipped school like Mathew Broderick did all those years ago.