Synopsis
It's all about life. Presented by Ray Darcy.
Episodes
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Seamus Harty's New Single
14/07/2025 Duration: 08minButterfly House is the new single from Seamus Harty, Seamus is in studio to discuss his music and a number of upcoming gigs.
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Lisa Keenan Ireland's only female Mart Auctioneer
14/07/2025 Duration: 18minLisa Keenan joins Ray to discuss the work involved in cattle mart auctions
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Excavation work has begun this morning at the site of the former mother-and-baby home in Tuam, Co Galway.
14/07/2025 Duration: 11minThis all started 11 years ago with the work and determination of local historian Catherine Corless, after she found that there were no burial records for almost 800 babies and infants who died at the home over a 36-year period.
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BP Fallon - Rock'n'Roll Wizard
10/07/2025 Duration: 34minB.P. Fallon joins Ray to talk about his career and life which has now become the subject of an excellent documentary called 'Rock'n'Roll Wizard' which premieres at the Galway Film Fleadh this weekend and features interviews with Bob Geldof, Debbie Harry, Donovan, Robert Plant, Imelda May, Michael D. Higgins and more.
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Elevate Your Summer Salad - Sprout & Co share their recipes
09/07/2025 Duration: 10minNow, the sun is shining… we’re due some very hot hot hot weather, and the last thing we want to be doing in the heat is stand over a hot stove. We are well and truly into salad season, and here to give us some inspiration on how to elevate your plate is the co founder of Sprout and Co, Theo Kirwan
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Human Collective - Conor Buckley's Social Enterprise
09/07/2025 Duration: 19minConor Buckley is the son of the late equality and abuse campaigner Christine Buckley and he joins Ray to chat about keeping her legacy alive through his own life and work,
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Procrastination
08/07/2025 Duration: 15minOur Philosophy Expert Joe Humphreys is in studio to chat about the great human condition of procrastination and how we might manage it.
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Barack Obama is coming back to Ireland
08/07/2025 Duration: 09minHenry Healy is Barack Obama's eighth cousin and joins Ray after the news that he will be interviewed by Fintan O'Toole in Dublin's 3Arena in September.
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Mum shares her urgent need for a kidney transplant list
07/07/2025 Duration: 19minValerie Coyne Dalton, is a Mum of two on the transplant list waiting for a kidney. She's been using all the tools in her arsenal including social media to appeal for people to consider donating a kidney to her & the hundreds of others like her who are desperate for the life-saving organ.
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Would you move to Cape Clear?
07/07/2025 Duration: 11minCape Clear is looking for new residents to take up island life. The school needs new children to attend and there's a job for a new school principal so Judith Gilbert who moved there in the 90's with her children joins Ray to give us a picture of what life is really like on the island.
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OASIS Reunion Tour to kick off in Cardiff
03/07/2025 Duration: 08minDavid Grundy, BBC Wales Reporter joins Ray to preview the first gig of the reunion which kicks off tomorrow night while Karen Kelly, Irish Oasis Superfan shares her sheer excitement at bagging tickets to three of the shows in the tour.
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Disenfranchised Grief
03/07/2025 Duration: 30minBrenda Casey, midwife specialist at the National Maternity Hospital and a trainee psychotherapist, Liz Gleeson, Grief Specialist and Founder of Shapes of Grief
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Siobh's Knits
02/07/2025 Duration: 06minKnitting is having a ‘moment’ with new groups popping up around the country with all ages taking part. Siobhan O’Reilly from Siobh Knits has turned her knitting hobby into a business, where she creates hats inspired by public transport.
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Who was Grace O'Malley?
02/07/2025 Duration: 17minBiographer Anne Chambers, has written ‘Grace O'Malley: The Biography of Ireland's Pirate Queen 1530-1603' and she is in studio to tell us the fascinating elements she discovered about her through her research.
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75 Year Old Fridge Staying Cool
02/07/2025 Duration: 10minAnna Maria Kennelly heard the gauntlet of 'Ireland's Oldest Fridge' being thrown down and answered the call to blast it to smithereens with her 1950 Frigidaire!
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Parenting Q&A
01/07/2025 Duration: 12minNurturing incremental independence in an age appropriate way is one of the topics that Child and Adolescent Psychotherapist Colman Noctor tackles for parents in today's slot.
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Music Charts dominated by artists of old
01/07/2025 Duration: 12minEamonn Forde, Music Business and Technology Journalist joins Ray to take a look at why the charts are floods with songs from past decades.
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From Togo to Togher - Raphael Olympio
01/07/2025 Duration: 19minThe West Cork Literary Festival July 11th – 18th Raphael will be at Bantry Library on July 15th at 5pm Raphael fled Togo in West Africa with his family and came to Ireland when he was just 5 years old. He is now a musician and spoken word artist who works as an Occupational Therapist in Youth Integration.
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