Weekend Breakfast with Alison Curtis

It's the end of another month and time for Alison to announce this month's winner of Cadbury's Sound Town! John Browne, a teacher from Abbeyfeale in County Limerick, joins us to tell us why his town deserves to go in the drawer for the whopping €10,000 prize at the end of the year! 🎉 Massive congrats to Abbeyfeale, Co. Limerick our July #CadburySoundtown on Weekend Breakfast!! 🎉 They melted our hearts when they told us how they worked together to breathe fresh life into the town following the closure of local businesses 💛@AlisonTodayFM @CadburyIreland pic.twitter.com/lt6D7jYxFS — Today FM 💛 (@TodayFM) July 25, 2021 If you want to nominate your town as a Sound Town, email [email protected]! Hit play to catch the full chat and join Alison Curtis on Weekend Breakfast. Saturdays from 8am and Sundays from 9am!

Every Sunday on Weekend Breakfast, Alison loves to shout about Small Businesses! This week she was joined by David Quire from Wholesome Kitchen, who despite the pandemic, have been able to branch out and launch a meal prep service! Just look how great their food looks...   View this post on Instagram   A post shared by Wholesome Kitchen | Restaurant (@wholesomeirl) If you want to get featured on Small Business Shoutouts, just email us on [email protected]! Hit play to catch the full chat and join Alison Curtis on Weekend Breakfast. Saturdays from 8am and Sundays from 9am!

The Last Letter From Your Lover is a brand new film hitting cinemas starring Felicity Jones, you'll recognise her from the Star Wars films and Shailene Woodley of Big Little Lies fame and they joined Alison on Weekend Breakfast! The film follows a young female journalist in modern day London who uncovers and then becomes obsessed with finding the owners of a series of lost love letters from the 1960s. You can catch the film in cinemas from August 6th! Hit play to catch the full chat and join Alison Curtis on Weekend Breakfast. Saturdays from 8am and Sundays from 9am!

Lets face it most parents are faced with picky eaters in their homes and it can cause a lot of stress around meal times, here to help is Dietician Orla Walsh Orla is a qualified Dietitian and member of the Irish Nutrition and Dietetic Institute (M.I.N.D.I.) and Self Employed Dietitians of Ireland (S.E.D.I.). She is also registered with CORU. On Weekend Breakfast with Alison Curtis Orla covers:  The basics in kids nutrition  - do parents tend to over worry or manage their kids intake Any wonder foods kids can have daily that tick a lot of boxes in terms of nutrition? What are common root causes for picky eating? Do kids need more control or say in the food they eat? What are some warning signs to look out for and to seek further help for? What are some of your top tips on how to expand the food repertoire for kids? PRESS PLAY HERE TO LISTEN [audio mp3="https://media.radiocms.net/uploads/2021/06/26130914/WB-ORLA-WALSH-PICKY-EATERS.mp3"][/audio] Orla has a dedicated website: orlawalshnutrition.ie And a child focused Insta:     View this post on Instagram   A post shared by Orla Walsh Nutrition 4 kids! (@feedyourpal)  

Best Friends Eimear Tangney and Aine McCauley are the Salty Sea Sisters. They have set up a community of wild women across Ireland and the UK who support and connect with one another to pursue adventures - they're website describes them as "the feral ones and the untamed!" So, it was Alison Curtis on Weekend Breakfast who had the job of taming them! ;-) They had a wonderful chat about their brilliant book, 'Swim Map of Ireland' and great advice for sea swim wannabes It contains over 140 wild swimming locations across the whole Island of Ireland is available now. [audio mp3="https://media.radiocms.net/uploads/2021/06/13131310/WB-SALTY-SEA-SISTERS.mp3"][/audio]     View this post on Instagram   A post shared by Salty Sea Sisters (@saltyseasisters)