After suffering from years of pain in her index finger, after 2 failed surguries and medication doing nothing to ease the pain, this Irish woman, Megan Cullen decided to go out to her back garden shed and chop her own fniger off. 

Thinking she was about to come to the rescue of a box of puppies, which had happened recently, Jo Dawkins was stunned to find that she had in fact stumbled upon a high end sex doll.  She joined Keith and Cormac to talk about how it happened, what she's doing with it and whether or not she will raise it as one of her own. 

Curiosities from the 5th Corner is not your average corner shop.  In fact, it's probably one of the strangest shops you could ever find yourself going into.  Shrunken human heads, rugs made from a dogs skin and stuffed dead animals are just some of the offerings on hand in the shop run by Henry Scragg.  He joined Keith and Cormac on air to discuss how the shop came about, why his interest in the dead and the most he has ever sold a dead, shrunken human head for. 

If you have seen the Ted Bundy documentary on Netflix, you'll have that Bundy had a number of groupies who were infatuated with him. He even wound up starting a family from death row. Why are some women obsessed with evil men who kill? What makes them tick? In this exclusive interview Keith and Cormac talk to author of Women Who Love Men Who Kill Sheila Isenberg to try and answer that question. 

Stephen Michaud was the man who spent hours sitting in a cell interviewing Ted Bundy about his disgusting murders.  The serial killer was one of the most infamous people to have ever lived and the book Stephen Michaud wrote about him formed the basis of the new Netflix Documentary that has just been released.  Listen back to this exclusive interview Michaud did The Phoneshow here: 

Have you ever met someone from the future? Well a man claims to be able to time travel and says he has come back from the year 2030 to warn us all about the dangers facing us as a society. Aliens, global warming and more juicy details were revealed in this exclusive Irish interview with The Phoneshow. 

What was billed as one of the most exclusive festivals in the world, with tickets costing in the thousands, turned out to be one of the worst events in history. FYRE was the brainchild of Billy Macfarland and Ja Rule and was meant to be a festival on an island paradise, with gourmet food, beach villas and world class acts.  Turns out it was none of the above. Calvin Wells, who first called bullsh*t on the entire event, spoke to Keith and Cormac on the Phoneshow about how the event...

Mother of two, Kelly Bennett from Tallaght, cried in court as she was prosecuted today after her two dogs were found emaciated and starved. Her three-old Jack Russell terrier and her 12-year-old boxer have since been placed in new homes. She was given a life time ban from keeping pets, fined €100 and handed a 3 month suspended sentence. A DSPCA inspector said of the boxer, “I was quite surprised this animal was alive, there was no sign of food or water.” The boxer was found dehydrated and...

Do you support the nurses planned strike action, or do you agree with Sandra, that they should be prevented from going on strike like the gardaí? "Keith I was listening to your news earlier and heard that the nurses are planning on going on strike? About 40,000 of them or so?! It’s crazy, do they not care about the public they are meant to be helping? I get people have to stand up for their rights and know that nurses deal with really bad conditions and long hours, but we’re in the middle of...

The Irish Independent carried a story today revealing that more than 700 people have been on the dole for more than 20 years, with a total of 6,633 people on the dole for more than 10 years. In response to this Brid O’Brien from the Irish National Organisation for the Unemployed stated that in many cases people faced discrimination when they attempted to re-enter the workforce. Discrimination such as ageism, sexism and “postcode-ism” are apparently huge hurdles for the unemployed to get over....

A judge in Ennis yesterday jailed a man for telling a member of the Gardai that he would have a “widows curse” put on her after he was stopped for a traffic offence last year. Martin Joyce who is 28 was jailed for 8 months after issuing a torrent of verbal abuse on the Guard before saying, “I am putting a curse on you. I will light a candle that your family will die and you will suffer grief in the next 12 months. When it happens, I will take pictures and send them to you and put them up for...

Should you be allowed protest abortion outside a hospital or clinic where it's being offered? Adam sent this into us: "These people, as much as I don’t agree with their message, or even the method they are using, have a constitutional right to protest. There’s no argument with that. Let them protest, all they are doing is engaging in the democratic process. They are using their rights - the same rights that were afforded to all of us that got the 8th repealed and made abortion finally legal....

If someone has a history of failing to pay a number of debts they owe, are they really a victim? Tom doesn't think so: There are people out there that deserve to be protected from the banks, but this guy in Roscommon is definitely not one of them. What I can’t understand is that this person has a history of not paying his debts. How is he a victim? He has 5 land portfolios - one second these protestors hate property owners and land owners, they next they are screaming they are the victim?...

Gardai confirmed today that the body of a baby found on a beach in Balbriggan died shortly before being born and was found a day or so after. The Gardai have named the baby “Belle”. They also appealed for the mother to come forward and seek medical attention, they stressed that this isn’t a criminal investigation and the woman is not in any trouble. There has been an outpouring of sympathy for the mother online with many people saying that this woman could have been going through a crisis...

A listener alerted us to the story of drunk driver Dermot Dowd who was jailed for 5 yrs for causing the deaths of his two passengers after admitting to drunk driving in Donegal in 2016. The inquest of his two female passengers was today. Eoin said, "This may be the harsh truth and I’m glad to see this man was suitably punished but what I don’t get is why these women are being portrayed as innocentvictims. Apparently they were drinking all day with this man and made a decision to get into his...

More controversy surrounding rickshaw drivers in the news today, Marie sent this message to us: "Keith, what more has to happen for these rickshaw drivers to be banned? They are a scourge on our city, full of drug dealers and one has even been convicted of raping a woman near one of their sheds in town? And don’t get me started about how he has his sentence reduced, it’s disgusting. I’m sorry, butwhat are we waiting for? Everyone knows they are the go to place for dealing weed and cocaine in...

While discussing the recent viral video that swept across social media, where a member of the gardaí can be seen discharging a firearm, a member of the forced called into Keith on The Phoneshow to defend the torrent of abuse they are currently recieving.   

Lisa wrote into us about this: "Last year my sister’s husband took his own life, leaving her to raise two young children on her own with a massive mortgage to pay for. There still appears to be little or no reason why he did this which makes it even harder for my sister. We have since rallied around her and help out where we can but it still doesn’t replace what her husband offered obviously. This might seem harsh but I refuse to sugar coat it any longer, I hold a lot of anger towards my...

Msg from Andy: "Keith, It should be illegal to video gardaí while theyre on duty. I’m sick of people posting their edited, one sided videos of incidents and drumming up outrage. The only thing they want is their 15 minutes of online fame. You’ve seen the video I’m on about that happened in Longford. A 60 second clip doesn’t inform anyone of what happened. Why was the garda called out in the firstplace? How long had this confrontation been going on? What dont we see? Was the garda there on his...

A Dutch man has had his request to change his age rejected by a Dutch court today. Emile Ratelband who is 69 yrs old made headlines last week after claiming he felt 20 yrs younger and wanted to amend his age to his preferred age of 49. He is well known in the Netherlands as a motivational speaker and said his request is on par with other requests such as changing your gender ,“I say it’s comparable because it has to do with my feeling, with respect about who I think I am, my identity,” he...

A report today in The Independent has revealed that former RTE employee Kieran Creaven could be back on Irish streets in a matter of weeks. He was originally sentenced to 18 months after a paedophile hunter group confronted him when he thought he was meeting a 13 year old girl. He will now only serve half that sentence. One of the mitigating factors for the short sentence, according to Judge Phillips, was that there was no real victim in the case and Creaven gave an early guilty plea. A...

How much of an impact is the current Irish housing crisis having on our children?  

A woman sent us this in who wants to remain anon. "I’d like to share my experience with Tinder after reading about that scumbag who attacked a poor Brazilian girl he met on there. Something similar happened to me two years ago. I had been chatting to a guy for a couple of days and everything was going well so we arranged to meet. We decided to go for a spin and get a coffee. Instead we never got a coffee. He parked off in an empty car park and demanded I give him oral sex. Thankfully, and I...

Tonight Keith talks to brave teen Orla O'Farrell who is battling leukemia. She posted an open letter to Leo Varadkar over the weekend after being denied a medical card which would have covered her medical costs, which could go into the thousands because her father's income is slightly above the threshold. She said, "Why is a 19 year old girl being given added stress over this when she already has enough stress about living with a life threatening illness? Why am I being punished for having...

Mother of two Amy Lee, who kept a starved husky in an emaciated state in her flat in Dublin, has been given a lifetime ban on owning pets. The DSPCA told the court that when they first saw the dog she was “in an underweight, neglected condition and as a result of this was suffering unnecessarily”.The judge after viewing the emaciated photos of the dog said, "“shame on you”. Her solicitor said, her client, who is expecting a child, bought Sky for her family. However, she had suffered health...