Cork's 96fm Opinion Line

Before you cancel your Jazz Festival tickets or bank holiday weekend plans over Storm Austin headlines, Carlow Weather’s Alan O'Reilly joins PJ to explain why the worst of the weather might pass right by us.

Every single day at 11:11, Niamh Foran tells PJ she made a silent wish for her sick college friend Edel to get a liver transplant—now, eight years on, she’s running the Dublin Marathon to celebrate the gift that saved her life

PJ hears about the interest in the Cornell 7 predator case in UCC from Molly Curtis of the UCC Criminology Society

With drug gangs operating with complete impunity while state anti-intimidation programmes receive less funding than a single gang’s payroll, MEP Michael McNamara demands an emergency task force to protect ordinary citizens.

As criminal defence solicitors escalate their nationwide strike, PJ and prominent Cork solicitor Frank Buttimer talk about solicitor anger and the alarming reality of delayed trials and offenders left walking the streets

Anna tells PJ the terrifying moment her 18-month-old toddler reached for discarded syringes on Cathedral Road, asking why simple daily walks have become a biohazard

Between closed local Garda stations, daylight fireworks, and scramblers terrorizing local parks, PJ and Cllr Peter Horgan ask why Cork’s growing communities are being starved of basic frontline protection.

PJ hears the reality of drug lord terror for families who have someone caught in the debt spiral, learns about a new way for mums of newborns to have self-care, laughs with the gang from Roches who are getting back together. And more...