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Irish Secretary of the National Union of Journalists, Seamus Dooley spoke with us about the BBC journalist who has been warned of threats made to his life.

Donald Trump resigns from Screen Actors Guild, a couple have made an Eno-esque atmospheric music release of the sound of their baby in the womb and a Texas dept. releases an emergency alert for horror doll, Chucky! It's Anton's stories of the week!

Dave chats to Caregiver & Author, Ruth Coker Burks about her book, 'All the Young Men', which tells her tale of comforting men with aids at a time when those who had contracted the disease were shunned by family, society, government and church!

Using a full stop is seen as rude by some people, a thumbs up emoji has recently been highlighted as passive aggressive so Dave chats to Journalist, Tanya Sweeney about what your emoji and text use might be saying about you!

Nicola Coughlan has recently gone from small production success as a Derry Girl to big budget success in Netflix series, 'Bridgerton' so Dave chats to Chris Wasser about other Irish and International stars who have kicked off their career in small productions!

Detective Chief Super Declan Daly of the Organised Prostitution Investigations Unit spoke with us about the set up of a new unit which plans to crack down on purchasers of sex and criminal gangs, and to increase protection for men and woman many of who are trafficked.

We spoke with Welfare Officer Matthew Ryan a leaving cert student in Cork, and Principal at St Patrick's Classical School in Navan, Colm O'Rourke, about the announcement by Education Minister Norma Foley that there would be a leaving cert exam, and a non exam option in 2021

Irish News columnist Brian Feeney joined us to discuss the apparent rise in tension Northern Ireland this week

Foreign Affairs Minister Simon Coveney joined us to discuss the difficulty facing the Northern Ireland Protocol

Paul Reid, Chief Executive of the HSE joined us to discuss the decision not to offer the AstraZeneca vaccine to the over 70's