Newstalk Weekend

: 2024 was a stunning year for sport. Team Ireland picked up 7 medals in the Olympic Games in Paris including 4 golds. There was also the Euros and Claire and Armagh winning all-Ireland finals  Joining Emmet Oliver in for Anton to reflect on the best sporting moments of the year was Kieran Cunningham, Chief Sportswriter at the Irish Daily Star.

As we wind down 2024 Emmet Oliver in for Anton was joined by panellists to discuss the biggest stories of the year. To the general election, referendums and the election of Donald Trump. Joining Emmet was Jon Ihle, Deputy Business Editor with the Sunday Times Ireland, Joan Mulvihill, artist and Digitalisation Lead at Siemens and Colm O'Gorman, Human rights campaigner and Irish Examiner columnist.

As the new year is around the corner many will be making resolutions with some likely wishing they could shift some pounds in the new year. But are resolutions when it comes to weight loss and health goals logical? To answer this and some of listeners diet questions, Emmet Oliver was joined by Dietician Sarah Keogh

For this week's edition of in conversation, Emmet Oliver chatted to Mark Fennell Author and life coach to discuss how we have a prosperous and wholesome 2025 for ourselves and achieve fitness, career and life goals.

 From restaurants serving festive feasts to retail stores managing the rush of last-minute shoppers, the Christmas season is a critical time for the hospitality and retail sectors. But did it deliver the boost they were counting on? Joining Emmet Oliver for Anton was Jean McCabe, CEO of Retail Excellence Ireland and  Adrian Cummins from the Restaurant Association of Ireland….

Joining Emmet in for Anton to reflect on the news have a look through the papers of the day and discuss ‘What is going on’ was Hugh O’Connell, Political Editor with The Sunday Times Ireland and Aisling O’Rourke, Podcaster and media lecturer.

Price watch has been the guiding light to consumers on where and how to spend their money for many years. Earlier this year, we hit a milestone, as the column turned 20. The brains behind the column, Consumer Affairs Correspondent for The Irish Times Conor Pope joined Emmet to reflect on its history and what he has learned in all his years doing the column.

Sean Defoe sits down with actor and playwright, Emmet Kirwan ahead of the run of his new show Accents.Accents is showing at The Ambassador Theatre, in Dublin on 16,17,18 January and across the country into 2025.Hit ‘Listen’ to get more of this brilliant conversation on all things accents and hear all about his new show.

Sean Defoe is joined by award winning Chef, TV Host, author and now podcaster, Mark Moriarty, to get the best tips and tricks for that Christmas dinner.Hit ‘Listen’ to get the best ideas on how to spice up that Christmas dinner.

Sean Defoe is joined by Gary Murphy, Professor of Politics at the School of Law and Government at Dublin City University, and Ivan Yates, broadcaster and former Fine Gael minister to look back on the year in Irish politics.From referenda to budget, and even a general election thrown in there too, it was a huge year in Irish politics.Hit ‘Listen’ to hear more of this brilliant analysis of the year in Irish politics.

Sean Defoe sits down with Larry Donnelly, Law Lecturer at University of Galway and Columnist with The Journal; political commentator, Ursula Savage; and author & journalist, Aoife Barry to take a look at the Sunday Papers.A Sinn Féin reshuffle in discussion and doing more business with Donald Trump among the headlines today.Hit ‘Listen’ to get all the biggest news stories from the week.

Tom sits down with Don Conroy, one of Ireland’s favourite artists, presenters and all-round legend.Don’s new book, Drawn to Nature, is just out and is a perfect stocking filler for Christmas.Hit ‘Listen’ to get this great conversation.

Robert Whelan, Managing Director at Rockwell Financial is our expert this week.If you have any finance related queries, Robert is your guy.Hit ‘Listen’ to get your money questions answered.

CEO of the Dublin Airport Authority, Kenny Jacobs, sits down with Tom Dunne to speak on the Dublin Airport Cap.This comes on the back of the DAA seeking to raise the passenger cap at Dublin Airport to 36 million a year.Hit ‘Listen’ to get the latest on this story.

Jane Casey, one of Ireland’s best content creators on Irish history, sits down with Tom Dunne to discuss 12 of Dublin’s most historic pubs.From The Stag’s Head to The Yellow House, this is the quintessential guide to Christmas pubs.Hit ‘Listen’ to get all the latest.

Killian Woods, Senior Business Reporter at The Business Post, and Adrienne Sweeney, Director of Powerscourt Springs Health Farm, sit down with Tom Dunne this week to talk about ‘What’s Going On?’From pre-teen skin care routine and Christmas scams. All the fun -- and strange -- stories here.Get all the latest news stories here and hit ‘Listen’ now.

Sarah O’Connor, Director of Partnerships and external affairs with the RSA, sits down with Tom Dunne to discuss safety on the roads this Christmas.While we’re all driving home for Christmas this year, it’s important to be careful and safe; so, Sarah gives us the best advice for this time of year.Hit ‘Listen’ to get all the latest.

Cathal Nolan, Climate Scientist and Founder of Ireland’s Weather Channel joins Tom Dunne to discuss more weather trouble in the country.A yellow weather warning has been issued across the country, so we get the latest on areas that could be worst hit.Hit ‘Listen’ to get the latest.

Joining Anton ahead of her show in Dublin next year was Candace Bushnell.

Joining Anton to sing the praises of Ireland was Mary McCarthy, columnist for Mediahuis Ireland.

Joining Anton with the latest on the government formation talks was James Browne, Minister of State for International Law, Law Reform and Youth Justice at Dept of Justice who is also a part of Fianna Fáil's negotiating team.

Joining Anton to recap the Sunday papers was: Craig Hughes, Political Editor of the Irish Daily Mail Gabija Gataveckaite, Political Correspondent with the Irish Independent  Anna-Marie McHugh, Assistant Managing Director of the National Ploughing Association

Joining Anton with the details from Trump's appointment of new US ambassador to Ireland was Sean Defoe, Group Political Correspondent at Bauer Media.

Anton is joined by Gerald Howlin, Public Affairs consultant and Irish Times columnist, and Siona Cahill, Accountant Director with DHR Communications and member of All Island Women's Forum to go through the big stories in Saturday's papers.There are 11 days to save Christmas as bids are being made to reroute tonnes of stock from Holyhead, and the latest batch of Gardai make the headlines.

Anton sits down with Donal Ryan, one of Ireland’s foremost writers. After picking up the Eason’s Novel of the Year prize at the An Post Irish Book Awards with Heart, Be At Peace, Donal is on a roll.

Ray O’Donoghue, Nighttime Economy advisor for Dublin city sits down with Anton as a ‘welfare area’ is being set up in Dublin city centre. It will provide help such as first aid to anyone who needs urgent assistance on several busy nights ahead of Christmas.

Alex Cooney, CEO of CyberSafeKids, and Conor Murphy, an English teacher in Skibbereen sit down with Anton as a new programme on Channel 4 follows a group of Year 8 pupils in school in the UK as they lock their phones in a glass cube for three weeks. They are about 12 years of age. As TV crews track this digital detox, is this the right approach? With kids now looking at countless notifications and even disturbing access to pornography, how can we help our kids reduce their addiction to having a phone in their hand?

Jennifer Sheahan, Irish Examiner Columnist and former winner of 'Home of the Year', & Bewley's Managing Director, Cole Campbell joins Anton as this weekend is likely to be one of the busiest of the Christmas period. How can we go about surviving all the madness and making it a more enjoyable experience? And how are retailers faring with the inundation of customers?

Anton sits down with one of Irish music's biggest advocates, Dave Fanning.Fanning At Whelan’s returned to TV screens this weekend, so Dave chats about a career in music and some his favourites.Hit 'Listen' to get all the chat.

Anton sits down with Paul Noonan, the frontman for Bell X1.Paul's career spans over 30 years so this is a chat not be missed.Paul's a new single My Bones A Scaffold is out now. Hit 'Listen' for more.

Comedian Jim Elliott sits down with Anton in the wake of Paul Mescal's appearance on SNL.Saturday Night Live has been one of the world's biggest drivers for popular culture, but is SNL still funny, or just cringe?Hit 'Listen' for more on this fascinating conversation.

Fianna Fáil spokesperson on Social Protection, Local Government and Electoral Reform, Deputy Paul McAuliffe sits down with Anton to get through what's likely to happen in the coming weeks in government formation talks.To get all the "behind the scenes" info on the government talks, hit 'Listen' now.

Anton sits down with broadcaster, Eileen Dunne; Mark Hennessy, Ireland and Britain Editor at the Irish Times; and John Cunningham, Relationship Director at Morgan McKinley, and Chair and Country Director of Lysis Group.The big parties and independents are getting ready to start government formation talks and even Barry Keoghan's decision to step away from social media.Hit 'Listen' to hear all this and much more on this brilliant panel discussion.

Scott Lucas, Professor of International Politics at The UCD Clinton Institute, speaks with Anton on all the latest in Syria.The Syrian President Bashar al-Assad is believed to have fled Syria, the country his family has ruled over for 50 years as rebels capture the capital, Aleppo.The lightning advance took just two weeks and has brought to an end Assad’s 24-year authoritarian rule.Hit ‘listen’ to get the latest on this huge story.  

Gary O'Hanlon is the Executive Chef at The K Club and joins Anton to discuss, of all things, how to prep the perfect Christmas dinner.If you're looking for some inspiration in the coming weeks, look no further.Hit 'Listen' to get all your Christmas dinner worries put to rest.

Pete The Vet is with Anton this morning to answer all your pet-related questions.Pete is the go-to voice when it comes to your pet worries, so this is a great listen.Hit 'Listen' to get all of Pete's expertise.

We follow the fallout from last week's election as government parties look to others to make a deal.Nick Miller, public affairs strategist, and former press secretary and spokesperson for Leo Varadkar joins Anton to discuss the talks.Hit 'Listen' to hear this conversation.

Irish Times contributor, Lara Marlowe, joins Anton to discuss the political turmoil emerging in France this past week.Emmanuel Macron is currently facing down the worst political crisis in his two terms as French President as his Prime Minister received a vote of no-confidence.Hit 'Listen' to get all the latest.

Storm Darragh tore through the country overnight. Anton is joined by Alan O'Reilly, from Carlow Weather and Keith Leonard, National Director at the National Directorate for Fire and Emergency Management as we pick up the pieces.Hit 'Listen' to get all the latest.

Geraldine Herbert, Sunday Independent Motoring Editor and columnist, joins Anton to look ahead to 2025 hottest cars.It's a big year for car releases and a big year for nostalgia.Hit 'Listen' to find out what you should be getting excited about.

Anton is joined by Brenda Power, columnist with The Sunday Times and Irish Daily Mail, and journalist Lise Hand to go through the big stories in Saturday's papers.Three babies caught speeding in recent years, The manhunt continues for The Manhattan assassin, and a 74-year-old bird lays first egg in four years.Hit 'Listen' to get all these stories and more.

Anton is joined by Newstalk’s Courts Correspondent, Frank Greaney, to discuss the civil sexual assault case between Nikita Hand and Conor McGregor.Frank discusses what it was like to cover this case, the details of it, and what the future might look like.

Anton is joined by one of Ireland's greatest writers, John Boyne.He is the author of 20 plus books, including the massive Boy In The Striped Pyjamas.His latest is titled ‘Fire’ which is as unflinching in the type of themes that it takes on, and the types of characters that he provides.Hit 'Listen' to get the conversation in full.

Anton is joined by Patrick O'Connor, solicitor and a recently retired coroner for the Mayo district.Patrick is a multi-generational coroner and speaks with Anton to look back on an interesting career and some of the important lessons learned.What exactly does a coroner do? Hit 'Listen' to find out.

Anton is joined by Sean Defoe, Bauer Media political correspondent and Noel Dempsey, Former Fianna Fáil Minister as we look ahead to the General Election 2024.Hit 'Listen' to get a sense of what to expect in the next week as the nation readies itself for voting on Friday.

Anton is joined by Louisa Meehan of WoodviewHRM, Ireland and Britain Editor with the Irish Times, Mark Hennessy, and Paul Gallagher, Non-executive director Tourism Ireland and General Manager Buswells Hotel Dublin to discuss the Sunday papers.Rachel Morrogh, CEO Dublin Rape Crisis Centre drops in on the panel to discuss Nikita Hand's civil case victory against Conor McGregor.If you or anyone you know are affected by the content of this podcast; contact the Dublin Rape Crisis Centre at 1800 778 888 or at https://www.drcc.ie/services/helpline/Hit 'Listen' to get all the weeks biggest news stories now.

Patrick O'Donovan, Minister for Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science, joins Anton to discuss the latest Ireland Thinks poll.The Sunday Independent's latest research shows Fine Gael has dropped 4 per cent in popularity between the most recent polls.Hit 'Listen' to get the latest.

Joining Anton to look back on the Dublin riots one year on is Richard Guiney, CEO Dublin Town and Conor Lally, security and Crime Editor of The Irish Times.

Joining Anton for this week's instalment of Ask the Expert is Sarah Keogh, Dietician, Founder of Eatwell.

This week is Fraud week across Newstalk with Bank of Ireland, to explain Anton was joined by Nicola Sadlier, Head of Fraud at Bank of Ireland.