On the longest day Majella Fagan emphasised the importance of focusing on the spiritual aspect of life at this time. Colombian Ambassador to Ireland Ms. Patricia Cortes Ortiz spoke about her country and how it has progressed in recent years. Leaving Certificate student Ayesha Jallali was the subject of our Covid through the Generations feature today. Stacey McDowell from Trim Aura Leisure was fulsome in her praise for Eleanor Murray and Gerry began a week of Blondie in words and song.

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What could you do only laugh as Ramona Cunningham's old school report resurfaced years later! A book like no other "Waiting for the Miracle" - Anna McPartlin draws from a very personal experience. A bloody month was June 1921 as historian Sean Collins recalled. A new family take possession of a children's playhouse, Bobby McCormack is spreading the word about our sustainability goals on two wheels, Leon Blanche brought us his weekend sports preview and the curtain came down on the Take That story.

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Potholes here, there and everywhere it seems following a letter from Richard highlighting peppered roads round Drogheda! Vinny's back to steer good ship Dundalk but what's changed since Perth's dismissal last August? Octogenarian Mick Connell told us how Covid was through his eyes - what a touching, inspiring man! There was something fishy about East Coast Cookery School's Tara Walker today. We heard about the link between Millmount in Drogheda, the Battle of Waterloo and a new exhibition opening tomorrow. And Gerry's focus on Take That his Artists of the Week continued....

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Lynn O'Reilly spoke about some lovely nuggets of wisdom for life which she has gathered from residents of College View Nursing Home. A Buzzard attacking people at Gyles Quay in North Louth - Niall Hatch from Birdwatch advised us what to do. Professional cleaner Sue Ryder was so insightful as to what she encounters in the course of her work. Brona Malone has learned how to deal with stereotypical attitudes she has encountered since returning to Ireland. IT for all has been a saviour for so many but especially those of senior years as Smart Start Programme coordinator Dara Macbhann explained. And our Take That story rolled on....

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The joys of a Breakfast Cereal Box and the treasures within are still fresh in the memory as we discovered from our listeners today! And Gerry believes he's really onto something as Louise produced the Weetabix and Custard!!! We also caught up with playwright Deirdre Kinahan, focused on a new Skoda in our motoring feature, enjoyed more of Burke's Banter and rattled on with Artists of the Week - Take That....

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Connor Murphy told us how it all came back as he watched the medics work to save Christian Eriksen's life while Advanced Paramedic Pat Smyth took us through the rudimentary of CPR and using a defibrillator. Twenty nine and all his ducks now lined up yet Conor Sheehan still can't secure his own home - a familiar story but so unfair. Pat Commins has co-authored a new book on emigration to Michigan from Ireland in the 19th Century. Pat Clarke encouraged support for Pound the Pavements and Gerry introduced his Artists of the Week....Take That!

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What's rare is wonderful - Neil Watters from Classified Records in Dundalk joined us on the eve of World Record Store Day. Organic gardener Nicky Kyle sorted out some issues in the vegetable garden for the month ahead. We were freezing even contemplating an Ice Bath challenge, Eugene Donegan & Friends have covered a Bob Dylan classic, Gerry concluded his words and music of Shirley Bassey and Leo Blanche looked ahead to some of the weekend's sporting tussles

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There are many aspects to tackling racism as Emer O'Neill explained but one of the key elements must begin early on in primary education and Emer is also part of this process. Sean Coffey renewed the appeal for information about his brother Paraic's death in a hit and run accident near his home in Meath twenty five years ago. Representing those in their forties Bobby McCormack kicked off our new feature "Covid through the Ages". We heard about a sleep out at Dail Eireann to raise funds and awareness for a five year old Navan boy and our Shirley Bassey story continued...

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Wanton vandalism at a Montessori by local children certainly raised Gerry and our listeners hackles! Modern Love have signed an international record deal and release their first single form the new EP today. Ciara Burke is never short of a word and is also organising outdoor yoga with those of an age and cocooners in mind. A self service dog wash, new career direction for Sarah Gardiner, Fred Cooke's hilarious Leaving Cert memories and a tune from Artist of the Week Shirley Bassey.....

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Professor Paul Moynagh brought us his weekly Covid analysis, the Farrelly's new business opened for business for the first time in Kells yesterday and Feargal Harrington explained why vaccination was now a prerequisite for dating! Myles Dungan new book about four killings of Meath men a hundred years ago is a work to behold. Our vet Sinead Kelly cautioned of dogs and unsupervised children in the light of the tragedy in Waterford and Gerry was only too delighted to feature Shirley Bassey as his Artist of the Week.

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