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Brendan O'Connor RTÉ
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Brendan O'Connor has all you need for the weekend with time to pause and reflect on the week just gone. Featuring a selection of human interest, consumer and lifestyle stories, as well as keeping you up to date on the news stories that matter. Listen live Saturday and Sunday at 11am - 1pm on RTÉ Radio 1.
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"Mam went to surprise Dad after work, but never came home."
The families of those killed and injured in the 1974 Dublin-Monaghan Bombings will be marking the fiftieth anniversary later this month. Aidan Shields, Sharon and Paul Askin, all lost loved ones in the disaster. They're taking part in a new six-part documentary series on RTÉ Radio 1, The Forgotten, starting at 6.30pm on Tuesday May 7th.
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Below the Belt? - Jake Paul takes on Tyson
Boxing writer for the Irish Sun, Kevin Byrne, takes Brendan through the latest novelty match between YouTuber Jake Paul and heavy-weight legend Mike Tyson
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Newspaper Panel
Today’s panel includes Louise Bayliss, Founder of Single Parent organisation SPARK & Campaign Co-ordinator of Focus Ireland; Pat Leahy, Political Editor at the Irish Times; Brendan Kelly, Consultant Psychiatrist and Professor of Psychiatry at Trinity College Dublin & Brenda Power, Columnist with the Irish Daily Mail and Sunday Times and barrister.
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The Watch List
Grainne Humphreys, Director of the Dublin International Film Festival and Rory Cashin, Entertainment and Culture journalist, give their recommendations for what to watch on the big and small screens for the week ahead.
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Cáit O'Riordan - 'The Pogues changed my life'
Music legend Cait O’Riordan talks to Brendan about the music of her life and dealing with the loss of her friend and bandmate Shane MacGowan
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Dr Gabor Maté on how trauma shapes us
World-leading expert in trauma and addiction, Dr Gabor Maté, is coming to Dublin's RDS on June 20th. He spoke to Brendan about collective traumas experienced by groups and countries, and how individual traumas can be as simple as unmet childhood needs. He also cautions that any suppressed trauma can contribute to poor physical health.
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50 State Tour Through Rose Coloured Glasses
Adrian’s US tour is more to do with romance than reality. As an Irish man living in the US for over 25 years I have visited 42 states and currently live in Arizona. The town of Sedona that Adrian waxes lyrically over is thought of more as a tourist trap and when I was there it didn’t conjure up any songs either by The Eagles or even Jackson Browne.
Winslow Arizona is another disappointment known for a truck stop and a prison.
You know you’re nearing the prison when signposts along the road say Do Not Stop For Hitch Hikers.
Winslow is a Rez-Town as it stands on the edge of the largest Indian Reservation in the US @ 27 thousand square miles-home of The Navajo Nation it is stunning and barren and desolate with all the expected problems like poverty and alcoholism.
The sale of alcohol is illegal on the Reservation which helps create a certain dynamic in Rez-Towns.
As for eating in diners in big cities and you have to search hard for Mom & Pop entities-the name used for independent non-corporate businesses.
Mostly you’ll end up in Wendy’s Denny’s Arby’s It’s a Burger What A Burger lotta Burger In and Out Burger or MacDonalds.
City Centers are becoming a thing of the past in the US.
I do agree with Adrian on Indiana though.
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