Sunday with Miriam

Chat with the coach on the RTÉ tv show 'Ireland's Fittest Family', which returns next week for a new series. She discusses how being a mother impacts her coaching approach, the importance of the GAA club game to local communities and the LGFA/GAA integration discussions currently underway

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Chat and live performance from the singer who is steadily making a name for herself. She chats about being from a musical background (both her grandfather and her dad Richie Buckley played sax), her own songwriting, working with producer John Reynolds and the artists that inspire her 

(For copyright reasons the full tracks performed during this interview cannot be podcast)

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A wide-ranging chat with the singer, who is getting ready for a nationwide tour with ‘Raised on Songs and Stories’. She chats about the music of her childhood, moving back to Ireland, the loss of family and musician friends like Glen Hansard, her attitude to death and the importance of artistic activism

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A catch-up with the broadcaster/journalist who spoke to us earlier this year about the devastating effects of her alcohol addiction and beginning a new chapter in life; having addressed an Oireachtas committee about women and addiction, she starts a new column today in the Sunday Independent

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The folk legend from Co Down will be honoured with a Lifetime Achievement Award at this year's RTÉ Radio1 Folk Awards . He chats about growing up in a very religiously and socially-divided northern Ireland, touring as The Sands Family, performing in the US, the tragic death of his brother Eugene and playing outside Stormont on the week of the Good Friday Agreement in 1998

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Seán Finegan (Foil) and Conor McKenna (Arms), two members of the comedy trio Foil, Arms and Hog chat about their origins in the UCD Dramsoc, the huge success of their online sketches, how their comedy translates abroad and using Dolly Parton's tour bus in the US. They are preparing to bring their new show ‘Smithereens’ around the country later this month.

Full details: https://www.foilarmsandhog.ie/

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Chat with the broadcaster which ranges from first coming to public prominence by being a relative of Joe Biden, co-presenting the very popular podcast with Tommy Tiernan and Hector Ó hEochagáin, life changes, this year's Mayo GAA victory and her support for the Mayo/Roscommon Hospice 

Further details: https://www.hospice.ie/

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Chat and live music from the musician who this year is marking  the twentieth anniversary of his album 'Songs from a Deep Forest'. He also chats about combining music with teaching at the music school BIMM and the vibrant scene in Belfast 

Official website: https://www.dukespecial.com/

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The author of 'Lessons in Chemistry' talks about her new book 'Peck & Peck' which is centred in the world of poetry publishing, and both the building in New York and the cast of owners and editors who run it

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80 years ago a poem by Patrick Kavanagh was published, called ‘Dark Haired Miriam Ran Away’. It subsequently became the song ‘Raglan Road’ and Lise has been looking at the story of the poem/song and the woman who inspired it – beautiful medical student Hilda Moriarty - and she wonders why there aren't more statues of the great women of Ireland, past and present

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