General Secretary of Irish Nurses and Midwives Organisation Phil Ní Sheaghdha looks at how Flu, RSV Respiratory Virus and Covid are all adding pressure on hospitals.

Brendan is joined by Seamus Coffey, Lecturer in Economics, UCC; Deirdre O'Shaughnessy, News Editor, Irish Examiner; Lorna Bogue, Councillor in Cork City and Former Member of the Green Party and Dr Chris Luke, Irish Medical Times Columnist and former consultant in Emergency Medicine. Freelance Journalist Raphael Rashid reports from Seoul.

UCC Broadcast Historian Finola Doyle O’Neill, tells Brendan about the household names and the more famous from Cork

Eoin Sweeney, TV and Radio Producer and Esther McCarthy, Life/Style editor, The Irish Examiner, discuss this weeks new releases.

Hector, Balkans go Baltics where he makes his way up the old Iron Curtain from Turkey to Latvia.

Toy Show: The Musical producers Jane Murphy and Katherine Drohan explain how they created this uniquely Irish musical

Miriam chats with Ireland's most successful paralympian, cyclist Katie-George Dunlevy

Jared Harris explains why the family wanted to donate the personal archives of his father, the great Irish actor Richard Harris, to University College Cork

Colm Tóibín’s favourite soprano, Dracula and the Sligo cholera epidemic, Puccini at home and Kilkenny’s first ‘witch’, with Colm Tóibín, Louise Kennedy, Karl O’Neill, Muriel Bolger, AM Cousins and Gerry Moran

For many Russians living in the Finnish border town, Laperanta, life has changed a lot since the war in Ukraine, In the Croatian city of Split, authorities are struggling to cope with the increased number of tourists and on the Camino in Northern Spain, we hear how the pilgrim walk creates a sense of peace and harmony.