Cathal Dervan Sports Editor of the Irish Sun wasn't in the least surprised at the deaparture of Martin O'Neill as Irish soccer manager and expects Mick McCarthy could make a return to his former employers the FAI.  Ann McVeigh simply loves the tradition of making her own Christmas Pudding which is multiplied by ten this year!!  What's the story Jackanory - Clare Tully told us.  Alice Malone is part of a team delivering the KiVa Anti-Bullying Programme to a number of schools in Louth and Monaghan and it really does work!  While Hermione Hennessy joined us on the release of a new album to mark ten years since the passing of her Dad Christy.

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Senior Nutritionist and Research Director at Glenville Nutrition and Wellness Crew Team Member Ciara Wright is well aware of the struggle many of us have to get a good night's sleep!  Today Ciara joined Gerry Kelly on Late Lunch to talk primarily about the link between the food we eat and shut eye time.  

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Gwen Jackson was relieved that daughter Alice, though traumatised, wasn't seriously injured following an attack while waiting for a bus back to Ratoath from Blanchardstown on Saturday evening last.  Catherine Fulvio is keen to cut out waste this Christmas while at the same time serving up a classic Christmas dinner.  Ciara Wright was her brilliant self as she advised on food and other matters that influence how we do or don't sleep.  Anne Chambers Biography on Grace O'Malley has been republished forty years on to great acclaim and no surprise to Gerry.  While Brian Kirk's telling poem "Birthday" has been shorlisted for Poem of the Year at the Irish Book Awards 

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Today on Late Lunch Ann Tracey and Aileen Emery from the Gary Kelly Cancer Support centre stopped by with their shiny award from the Pride of Place awards which were held at the weekend. We met survivors of stroke who refuse to let having a stroke slow them down. Plus Anthony and Kathy Sheehy from Dundalk tell Gerry about their brilliant business which is the first of it's kind!

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Ryanair's new baggage restrictions and what to do was part of our regular travel and holiday feature with Globe Travel's Sandra Finegan.  Andrew O'Connor's "By Royal Appointment" is Margaret Madden's Late Lunch Book Club Book of the Month.  Ahead of the Mid-Louth Camera Club's Bi-Annual Exhibition the wonderful Teddy Caffrey popped in for a chat and what an interesting converation it turned out to be!  While we paid tribute to the late great Sonny Knowles returning to an interview he did with Gerry back in 2010.  

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On Thursday's Late Lunch we were live from Knightsbook hotel for the annual Meath Enterprise Week where we met some of the established and upcoming entrepreneurs in the Royal County, Blues Legend Don Baker stopped by for a chat we met animal communicator Lyn Furlong and we spoke to the students picking up awards from the student enterprise challenge. 

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It was April 2010 and legendary crooner Sonny Knowles after beating two bouts of cancer was going back on the road!  Sonny popped in for a chat and a song on Late Lunch with Gerry Kelly whose late mother Mary was a massive Sonny Knowles fan.  The connection and what it meant is obvious as the boys had such fun.... 

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Roger O'Reilly has shone the light on our Coastal Lights in a brilliant new book which possibly has its origins in Mornington by the sea?  On World Diabetes Day Cathal Fleming told the story of his diagnosis with Type 1 at the age of 37.  Eimear Felle from Mary's Meals (one of Gerry's favourite charities) talked about its resounding success and the impact its making around the world.  While Darren Louet-Feisser has come up with a differnt kind of Pooper Scooper.....

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Humanitarian Mark Mullen has been involved in crises all over the world and nominated for a Red Cross Honour - have a listen and you'll understand why!  Tony Conlon brought us his regular motoring feature and Holly Bryan Dulux Colour Hero offered lots of advice on brightening up or toning down our homes.

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Counsellor and Psychotherapist Bairbre Kelly joins Gerry Kelly on Late Lunch each month now to deal with personal and relationship scenarios sent in by listeners.  Here's Bairbre on Monday's Show taking the questions.... 

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