How To – Administer Someone’s Estate?

Do you know much about your local council? Would you want to see them take more responsibility in your area?   In last week’s Irish Times, Michael McDowell wrote about the challenges facing Dublin City, and he blamed the council for a lack of activity.  But is the real issue a lack of power and authority held within the council’s remit?   Ciarán Cuffe, Green Party MEP, formerly served on Dublin City Council in the 1990s and joined Sean to discuss...

Irish hospitals produce an extraordinary number of plastic medical grade aprons for incineration every week. But a start up in Cork is attempting to disrupt the norm. Sean was joined by Dr. Mary O’Riordan, Co-Founder of HaPPE Earth... Image: HaPPE Earth

People often say that they “feel the love” but where exactly do we feel love? Well, researchers from Aalto University in Finland set out to do exactly that. The study at Aalto categorised 27 different types of love from true love to self love and the love for religion.   Sean was joined by Pärttyli Rinne, Researcher at Aalto University to discuss...

What is the worst or best social media campaign that you’ve ever seen? The market to compete with social media advertising is huge and businesses leave us either captivated or cringing. Some of these campaigns are very memorable and inventive whereas others, just entirely miss the mark. But what makes a social media campaign successful? And what makes it flop?  Sean was joined by Columnist for TheJournal.ie, Carl Kinsella to discuss...

Tonight a new documentary on Virgin Media One will look at the serious consequences of Irish people travelling to Turkey for medical procedures. Increasingly, those who travelling are suffering from post-surgery side effects, which have to be rectified by the HSE.  Leanne O’Driscoll features as part of it joined Sean to discuss...