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Phil Ní Sheaghdha, Dr Mary Favier, Adrian Cummins, Stephen Donnelly, Louise O'Reilly, and Neale Richmond

Business man, philanthropist, a father and a proud Mayo man. Cathal Hughes, Chairman, of Hughes Group, Portwest joins Sarah.

Bob Geldof is well known as the lead singer of the Boomtown Rats and creator of Live Aid. But before all the fame and glory, he worked in an abattoir, busked and was an underground music editor. He left school without doing his Inter Cert.

The rich lists say he’s worth over 50 million euro.

We asked him about his life in business.

Sinéad Brady, career psychologist from A Career To Love, joined Louise to talk about the quarter-life crisis

Larry Mc Carthy is the President elect of the GAA & Marty met up with Larry at Croke Park. Ella McSweeney meets farmers raising calves to help build a Midlands Hospice. Suzanne Campbell on smart farm technology & Finola Colgan of Mental Health Irel tells us how to mind our mental well being. Plus Wexford horse trainer Paul Nolan on Cheltenham.

Joanna McNicholas on Clare Island, Brian O'Sullivan of O'Sullivan Marine & Tralee & Michael Sheehan, Waterford City & County Trout Anglers Assoc at the recent Irish Angling Expo in Swords, Co. Dublin. Plus our regular contributor Hugh Oram on Dublin's hidden rivers.

X Factor host Dermot O'Leary has many talents, one of them is writing kids books! He chats to Niamh about the third book in his Toto the Ninja Cat series, we've got World Book Day Shenanigans, stories, reviews and a whole load more!

Sandy Burnett looks at the aftermath of the Russian Revolution and it's impact on artists - particularly on Rachmaninov and Prokofiev, who both fled Russia in 1917.

Some highlights from a busy week at RTÉJr radio!

This week on Playback. Covid 19 containment and mitigation - we’ll chart the week’s events and the reaction on the airwaves. Government formation – remember that – we’ll take comfort in the party political tussles. And Fergal Keane channels his inner fashionista. All on Playback presented by Sinéad Mooney.