Rté - Mornings With Dave Fanning

It’s well known that pets can become part of their families, and that when they die, these families often grieve intensely. Actress, comedian and writer Tara Flynn and RTÉ journalist Valerie Cox both lost their pet dogs recently and talk about the impact it had on them.

Níall McDonagh is 31 and from Galway but now lives in New York. Over the past couple of years a number of family tragedies have lead to a complete change in the direction of his life. He has now decided to enter a seminary in New York to see if the priesthood is for him.

10 students, all aged 16 to 18, have just returned to the UK from a month-long trip to an uncharted Greenland mountain at Constable Point, East Greenland. The man behind the trip, Gavin Horgan, their headmaster at Worksop College in Nottinghamshire chats to Dave about their trip and how they coped with such an adventure

Author and columnist with the London Independent and Evening Standard, Yasmin Alhibai-Brown, has found many young people writing to her with their problems – and she finds many of them difficult to ignore.

Bill Hughes, one of Ireland's most respected TV producers, is highlighting that AIDS cases in Ireland reach their highest point in five years.

Joining Oliver & Brendan is Stephen O'Leary from Olytico, the social media monitoring & analysis company with what's trending this week.

In studio with Brendan this morning is Oliver Callan, with a satirical swipe at well-known faces in the worlds of entertainment, politics & sport this week.

Ryan Tubridy comes into studio to meet Brendan to discuss his upcoming trip to Africa with GOAL and to preview his new show on Radio 1 which starts on 7th September at 9.00 a.m.

We have an update from Michael and Brendan who are travelling the coast of Ireland in search of the best places to take a dip. They are going to select, photograph and write about 40 swimming locations that will eventually fit into a full-colour book.

Mary Manning's memoir, Nobody Will Believe You, has just been published by The O'Brien Press. It is an incredible story of abuse and survival. Mary Manning's stepfather began raping her at their home in Ardee, Co Louth when she was in her early teens. He went on to father her first five children.

We are going to spend another €500 million building 11,000 houses but where? Are the new apartment minimum size guidelines a good idea? Architect Dermot Bannon is in studio

Best selling author Claudia Carroll has just published a new book called Meet Me in Manhattan. As a single person and purely for research purposes for her book, she got involved in some online dating with some mixed results.............

Child psychologist David Carey is in studio to talk about behaviour problems and discipline with children

Now that the recovery seems to be coming we need to start thinking again about what kind of a society we want to have, what kind of a country we want to be and what our priorities should be. Entrepreneur Gavin Duffy is in studio with his thoughts....

Most of us get wanderlust from time to time – the desire to get away from it all and see somewhere new. Most of the time it will involve a plane. Not so Niall Doherty, who earlier this year completed a 44 month round the world journey without flying. And he learned quite a few things along the way

Rio 2016 may be a year away, but three badminton hopefuls will be looking to keep it in the family and book their place on the plane, particularly after all securing bronze medals in last month’s European Games in Baku. Two time Olympian Chloe Magee hopes to be joined by her 2 brothers, Sam and Josh and all three join Brendan in studio...

Michael Colgan has a great zest for life. He feels incredibly lucky to be surrounded by great friends and says he thankfully has never experience unwarranted sadness in his life. He’s been running the Gate Theatre for 32 years and counts Brian Friel and Samuel Beckett among his close friends.

Siobhán, a meteorologist broadcaster with Met Eireann, talks to Brendan about the really poor weather we are having this summer

Finbarr is Shane Filan’s (Westlife) older brother. He has entered politics and is the Renua candidate for the Sligo constituency in the next general election

They were the model Celtic Tiger couple. His restaurants were host to the celebrity set during the boom years. She was the darling of the fashion TV world. But their careers went bust together. But they’re back... setting off on a new restaurant venture together and having their third baby