Cork Today

A regular listener joins us to discuss the struggles she’s having since her husband’s meningitis diagnosis. Proinsias O’ Tuama joins us to speak about pollution and littering putting pressure on our shorelines. CEO of Parentline on the new Sharenting campaign. Influencer Trisha Lewis on the Goal Mile. Movie Review with Mark.

Noeline Blackwell on Australia’s Social Media Ban. Cllr Finbarr Harrington and Maureen O Sullivan update us on Feile and the Stand4Feile campaign. Mentalist Keith Barry joins us in studio. Cllr Liam Madden discusses the desperate need for footpath repairs in Cork. Pat Buckley on the charge for blister packs. Jane answers all your vet questions.

Clean Ireland Recycling on the dangers of binning items such as vapes that include batteries. Johnny O’ Mahony on the Eurovision Song Contest. Deputy Seamus McGrath on his plea for a 24 hour bus service for Cork Airport. Laura Harte and Laura O Mahony discuss the Improv Panto. Peter Dowdall answers all your gardening questions.

LadyCab founder Emanuela Negura on taxi’s for women only. Professor Louise Crowley on Living with Lupus. Senator Mark Duffy speaks out against false advertising of coverage by phone companies. Jim O Mahony on the annual Tractor Run. Joe Heffernan discusses separation and divorce at Christmas. 

Dave Gibney Migrants Right Centre Ireland. Michael Fortune on the Dresser Calendar and Christmas Folklore. TD Colm Burke on Blarney’s Neuro-Rehabilitation centre, and Cork’s first day centre for the homeless. Norman McCloskey on his new book named ‘The Headlands’. Anneliese answers all your nutritional questions.

TD Pat Buckley calls for a new national plan to cut scan wait times. Director of food safety with Safefood, on their Christmas Campaign. Angela Clayton on the Cancer Clinical Trials Report. World of Wonder’s popular toys and games. Mark Malone’s Movie Review.

The Cork graveyard, so waterlogged, that undertakers can’t use the trolley for a coffin, We hear from Clonakilty’s Fernhill House Hotel & Gardens recently named Best Wedding Venue in Europe, The need for a review of the long-term illness scheme to include Crohn’s and Colitis, Garda File and vet Jane Pigott will be here to answer your pet questions.

'Access to cash' legislation, Family Carer of the Year Angie Benhaffaf, Suzy Byrne on the new book of listeners' letters to her father Gay Byrne, a rise in the numbers jailed for breaching domestic abuse orders in Ireland and gardening advice with Peter Dowdall

We look at the latest Credit Union Consumer Sentiment survey, The state is losing out on LPT revenue because flood-hit properties are undervalued, Some women are forced to stay with an abuser because if they leave they’ll have to navigate homelessness, Key dates for posting your festive mail, Show counsellor Joe Heffernan on Christmas and how it isn’t a happy time for everyone