This week's Culture Club inductee is singer Mary Coughlan.

She joined us to talk about her favourite music, books, movies and TV.

First Single Ever Bought: I'd Rather Go Blind - Chicken Shack

Favourite Album: Lady in Satin - Billie Holiday

Favourite Artists: Billie Holiday, Van Morrison, Tom Waits

Best Gigs: Georges Bizet's 'Carmen' outdoors at Sydney Harbour, Van Morrison at Cork Opera House in 1987, Tom Waits in Galway in 1984, Paul Simon in 2017

Favourite Book: My Beautiful Friend by Elena Ferrente

Favourite Movies: The Godfather, Amarcord, The Tin Drum

Favourite TV shows: Ray Donovan, Game of Thrones, Breaking Bad

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How do you get to a GP during out-of-hours services?

Dr Ray Walley joined us for our weekly medical consultation to discuss the demands on the out-of-hours system, particularly over the Christmas period, and what needs to be done about it.

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This week on The Last Word, we're looking at some of the best books you should buy for yourself or a loved one this Christmas.

Maria Dickenson, Managing Director of Dubray,  and Aoife Barry, arts editor with thejournal.ie, joined us to recommend their favourite fiction books of the year.

'Shadowplay' by Joseph O'Connor

'Olive Again' by Elizabeth Strout

'The River Capture' by Mary Costello

'Where the Crawdads Sing' by Delia Owens

'The Memory Police' by Yoko Ogawa

'The Wych Elm' by Tana French

'Hunting Party' by Lucy Foley

'The Wall' by John Lanchester

'When All Is Said' by Anne Griffin

'Once, Twice, Three Times an Aisling' by Emer McLysaght and Sarah Breen

'My Sister, the Serial Killer' by Oyinkan Braithwaite

'Daisy Jones & The Six' by Taylor Jenkins Reid

'The Flatshare' by Beth O'Leary

'Follow Me To Ground' by Sue Rainsford

'This Is Happiness' by Niall Williams

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Christmas is a popular time of year for burglars, with statistics showing a 36% increase in break-ins during the winter.

Charlie Weston, personal finance editor of The Irish Independent, joined us with some advice on keeping your home safe.

Tips include:

Fit an alarm

Make sure doors and windows are locked

Think like a burglar

Leave lights on when nobody's home

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Former One Direction bandmates Liam Payne and Harry Styles both have new albums, but they are provoking very different reactions.

Payne's LP1 has been getting terrible reviews, while Styles has already been highly praised for Fine Line, which will be released on Friday.

Dee Reddy and John Caddell discussed this in our weekly music slot, as well as looking back on the legacy of Roxette singer Marie Fredriksson, who has died aged 61.

They also pondered who could be this year's Christmas number one, and whether anyone actually cares anymore.

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This week on The Last Word, we're looking at some of the best books you should buy for yourself or a loved one this Christmas.

Minister for Finance Paschal Donohoe and political journalist Lise Hand joined us to recommend their favourite non-fiction books of the year.

Their picks were as follows:

'The Globalist: Peter Sutherland' by John Walsh

'Burned: The Inside Story of the 'Cash-for-Ash' Scandal and Northern Ireland's Secretive New Elite' by Sam McBride

'Constellations' by Sinéad Gleeson

'How to Lose a Country: The Seven Steps from Democracy to Dictatorship' by Ece Temelkuran

'Invisible Women: Exposing Data Bias in a World Designed for Men' by Caroline Criado Perez

'Good Economics for Hard Times' by Abhijit Banerjee and Esther Dunlop

'The Only Plane in the Sky: An Oral History of 9/11' by Garrett M. Graff

'Winners Take All' by Anand Giridharadas

'The Third Pillar - The Revival of Community in a Polarized World' by Raghuram Rajan

'Haven't You Heard?: Gossip, power, and how politics really works' by Marie Le Conte

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The US House Judiciary Committee has announced two articles of impeachment against President Donald Trump.

The first article is abuse of power, and the second is obstruction of Congress.

Cal Thomas and Marion McKeone discussed the charges and what impact they might have in our US slot.

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For this week's Tech Tuesday slot, Andy O'Donoghue joined us to give his thoughts on the best apps of 2019, according to the App Store and the Google Play Store.

App Store Picks

iPhone App of the Year -  Spectre Camera

iPhone Game of the Year - Sky: Children of the Light

iPad App of the Year - Flow by Moleskine

iPad Game of the Year - Hyper Light Drifter

Mac App of the Year - Affinity Publisher

Mac Game of the Year - GRIS

Apple TV App of the Year - The Explorers

Apple TV Game of the Year - Wonder Boy: The Dragon's Trap

Google Store Picks

Users' Choice of 2019

App: Video Editor - Glitch Video Effects

Game: Call of Duty: Mobile

Movie: Marvel Studios' Avengers: Endgame

eBook: Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark

Best App of 2019

Ablo

Best Game of 2019

Call of Duty: Mobile

Top-Selling Movies of 2019

Marvel Studios' Avengers: Endgame

Aquaman

A Star is Born

Marvel Studios' Captain Marvel

Spider-Man: Into The Spider-Verse

Top-Selling TV Shows of 2019

Game of Thrones

The Walking Dead

The Big Bang Theory

Riverdale

Yellowstone

Top-Selling eBooks of 2019

The Mister by E L James

Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark by Alvin Schwartz

Tiamat's Wrath by James S. A. Corey

The Silent Patient by Alex Michaelides

The Institute by Stephen King

Top-Selling Audiobooks of 2019

Becoming by Michelle Obama

The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck by Mark Manson

Unf*ck Yourself: Get Out of Your Head and Into Your Life by Gary John Bishop

A Game of Thrones: A Song of Ice and Fire: Book One by George R.R. Martin

Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone by J.K. Rowling

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Looking for a good sports book to read this Christmas?

Niamh Briggs and Michael Foley joined us to discuss some of their favourites of 2019, as well as a few that they didn't enjoy quite as much.

Their reviews include:

Joe Schmidt - Ordinary Joe

Warren Gatland - Pride and Passion

Jamie Heaslip - All In

Sam Warburton - Open Side

Eoin Larkin - Camouflage

Adrian Russell - The Double

About That Goal: The Official Autobiography Of Seamus Darby

Michael Owen - Reboot

Richie Sadlier - Recovering

In Sunshine or in Shadow - Donald McRae

Something in the Water; How Skibbereen rowing club conquered the world - Kieran McCarthy

Paddy Holohan - Hooligan

Chaos is A Friend of Mine - Ewan MacKenna

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With just days to go until the British general election, we asked what would be a good result for Ireland in our Monday debate.

What impact would a Boris Johnson majority have? And could it ultimately lead to a united Ireland?

Dan O'Brien, Chief Economist at the Institute of International and European Affairs and columnist with The Sunday Independent, Katie Daughen, Head of Brexit Policy at the British Irish Chamber of Commerce, Fianna Fáil Senator Mark Daly, and Aoife O'Donoghue, Professor of International Law and Global Governance at Durham Law School, joined us to discuss the issue.

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