Following our chat with John yesterday who is one of the 3,000 students sitting their leaving over the next few weeks. Tony contacted the show to say he went back to school when he was 35. He spoke to Jen about his experience.

The stories and headlines of the day that grabbed Ryan's attention.

Clár Ioml.án.

Presented by Pauric Lodge

Although Joshua always loved writing, he felt pressured to turn away from it as he grew older. But just a couple of years ago, he came across the Rhyme Rag Ensemble, a group of young creative writers, and his love for poetry was born.

Niall Hatch of BirdWatch Ireland talks about garden birds.

Éanna ni Lámhna meets the Trinity College professor hoping to find plants with medicinal properties on Irish Boglands

Irish conservationist Niall Beddy on Big Game nature reserves in South Africa allowing trophy hunting.

With Marie, Ruby & Donncha.

Shane McGrath chats hurling; Michael Meehan and Brendan Devanney talk GAA; Stephen Kelly on the soccer, while the lads also talk about the weekend's rugby and Katie Taylor's success in London! Game On.

Ar an gclár inniu: Niall Ó Cléirigh (Dochtúir teaghlaigh), Liadh Ní Riada (Oifigeach Pleanála Teanga Mhúscraí), Ruairí Egan (Saorchraoltóir), Aonghus Ó Lochlainn (Saorláithreoir/léiritheoir), Bernie Ní Fhlatharta (Saoririseoir), Eoin Pól Ó Rúis (i Varese na hIodáile) agus rapamhrán Gaelach le hEoin McEvoy.

Jo Mangan, Director of Carlow Arts Festival, Freelance director and Former Chair of the National Campaign for the Arts, talks to Cormac about a proposal for a basic income for artists in Ireland.

Paddy Woodworth's latest selection is Nan Shepherd's elegy to the Cairngorms, The Living Mountain, which spent 30 years resting in the writer's drawer