The Ray D'Arcy Show

On today's show Ray speaks to Philip Caldwell who was living a busy and active life until a try during a game of tag rugby went terribly wrong, Andrea Corr chats about her new album and Tomm Moore & Ross Stewart tell us about a new film called Wolfwalkers.

Before the 13th of July, Philip Caldwell was living a very busy and active life. Then that summer evening, a try during a game of tag rugby went terribly wrong and changed his life he joined Ray on the line for a chat.

On today's show Ray chats to Fiona Daly and her 12 year old daughter Ceola Daly who sent a beautiful handwritten letter into the show about a lost postcard, Author couple Anna Carey and Patrick Freyne chat about living and writing together and Tim Minchin talks about his new album.

Tim Minchin joins Ray for a chat and to talk about his new album.

On today's show Ray is joined by Samantha Long, one of many entries into our A Page From My Life competition to tell her extraordinary story, actress Niamh Algar chats about the new series Raised By Wolves and Neven Maguire is back with his cooking tips and recipes.

We received so many entries into our A Page From My Life competition which were heartfelt and personal. The book is full of the most wonderful and intimate stories. Samantha Long wrote about her first few hours of motherhood and thinking back to her own adoption, she joined Ray to tell her extraordinary story.

So far, Neven Maguire has given us tips on how to make the perfect Christmas Cake and pudding and taught us how to make chutneys and petis fours that you can give as a gift. Today, he is talking canapés.

On today's show Ray chats to Eric Brennan who has been campaigning to get life - changing surgery for his daughter, Conor pope is back with pricewatch and Joe Wicks chats about his new book.

Conor Pope joins us once again to champion your consumer issues if you have a consumer problem you can send it to [email protected]

Eric Brennan from Loughlinstown in Dublin has been campaigning to get life-changing surgery for his daughter. He joined Ray to tell us more about his daughter Sophie.