Emer O’Kelly on the fighting spirit of two deans of St Patrick’s Cathedral

On this morning’s programme ,St Patrick’s: the Cathedral That Withstood Oliver Cromwell and a Six-Lane Highway by Emer O’Kelly; Soyez Sauvage, a poem by Vincent Woods; Winning Hearts and Minds in Vietnam by Justin Kilcullen; Blue as the Sea off Arranmore by Denise Blake; The Gathering of Ghosts by John MacKenna; and Leaving Cert Days by Mae Leonard

Mae Leonard recalls the pivotal summer of her life, the year she did her Leaving Cert

John MacKenna is visited by old ghosts on a visit to a record shop

Cyril Kelly finds a long-forgotten but precious tool-roll of carving chisels, a gift from his talented aunt Bella

Vespiary, a poem from Grace Wells

Pat Dunne on the Finnish craze for “hobby horsing”, and the Irish roots of the term hobby horse

Carol Nicholas on the waxing and waning of a romance of her youth

Gemma Tipton on buildings that were built for love

Alan Finnegan pays tribute to a unique radio DJ