The Lite Lunch

Ah those musical Christmas globes are treasured across the Northeast! A Lottery winner believes it's time to dole out the €19 million jackpot. Suzanne Lynch has settled back into life in Brussels but looking forward to being home in Trim for the Festive season. Our motoring man Tony Conlon revealed his Car of the Year, Craft Butcher Hugh Maguire told of new trends customers are looking at for the main meal of the year and Gerry's focus on Jim Reeves rolled on...

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Professor Paul Moynagh brought rationale to the current Covid situation, Allen O'Donoghue calmed family tensions, Fr Michael Cusack regaled and reassured, Gerry spun Jim Reeves and Fergal Lynch delivered Meath GAA stories...

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Talk about feeling calmer - Cognitive Behavioural Psychotherapist Enda Murphy settled down our anxieties with his reassuring thoughts and words! A new spud emerges from fields of gold in Meath, a beautiful seasonal song from two college students and an hello from home to Italy. ,The phenomenon that is Ghan House and so began a week of Gentleman Jim from Gerry...

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Who said the tradition was dead? Those Christmas Cards just keep on coming to Gerry who's supporting the Gary Kelly Cancer Support Centre. We launched another annual tradition on the Show yes Christmas Cuties are back! They can draw on 340 years between the four of them and they're sounding as good as ever! It was seasonal sides with Tara Walker at East Coast Cookery School this time round. Sinead Burke brought us another keenly observed aspect of our changing life's circumstances. David Sheehan looked ahead to another weekend of Premier League fixtures and Gerry rounded off his week of Prince in words and song..

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Fr Shay Cullen didn't hold back when describing the horrific sexual abuse suffered by children in the Philippines involving Irish men, what can be done quickly and effectively to prevent it and identify the perpetrators. Grainne McGrath, an open water swimming coach, loves our seas but loathes the nasty stuff she encounters. Aoife McPartlin revealed the plight of Ireland's only Wildlife Rehabilitation Hospital in Meath - they're about to be made homeless! Fran Whearty from the National Lottery reassured us that they want someone to win that unprecedented rollover Jackpot and find a €35K TellyBingo winner in Drogheda..While Gerry rolled along with the story of Prince and his music..

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Good on you Vikram Singh and all at Sitar restaurant in Dundalk who are giving back to the local community this Christmas. What a laugh we had with Kunak McGann and Sarah Cassidy reminiscing about us Irish - what are we like!! Folklorist Michael Fortune reminded us of Christmas traditions past and present and Gerry dished up more about the Artist formerly known as Prince...

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Professor Paul Moynagh brought us more of his thoughts on recent developments with Covid-19 and the status of the pandemic in general. We heard about a good deed that's enabled the Meath Food Bank to keep on giving. Our own David Sheehan has delivered a Christmas Cracker of a book for all Dubs and sports fans. Dunboyne's been bombed in the best possible sense and the rain even turned purple on Late Lunch today!

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Your Heart, Man or Woman's, would go out to Mary Coughlan and Frances Black as uncertainty once more surrounds the performance and entertainment industry. Historian Sean Collins reflected on a momentous day in Irish history a century ago today. Work Behaviorist Fiona Buckley offered advice around winding down at work for the holidays, Sinead Burke brought us another poignant episode of her banter and Gerry rolled out a week of Prince in words and song...

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Whose Bear is Ted? Unmissable - The Phoenix 2021 Annual! Tara Walker sorts some Christmas Starters, David Sheehan makes his sporting predictions and Gerry concluded a week of Sir Cliff Richard...

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Where to now for travel? Local Travel Agents, Sandra Finegan and Martin Skelly, brought their vast experience to bear on the uncertainty. The Show must go on theme carried on into Gerry's chat with Navan Musical Society's David Monaghan. Nicky Kyle offered plenty of Christmas gift ideas for the gardener in your life, Andrea Mara is delighted there's no homework for her children between now and the break for holidays and Gerry rattled off more abut his Artist of the Week Sir Cliff!

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