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Paul Byrne asks what the Boston Scientific restructuring means for Cork, hears Garda advice on Bank Holiday weekend travel, chats to Vanessa Feltz on reinventing herself and why she loves Cork. And more...

Paul Byrne talks to Colm Cleary of James Lyons O'Keeffe Auctioneers who are selling Goat Island off Schull and it could go for the bargain price of €275,000

Flight disruption, so far, seems at a minimum due to the belt of fires right across Europe but smoke could be a worry and Eoghan Corry of travelextra.ie talks through the issues with Paul Byrne

Paul gets the breakdown of what is happening this weekend's Cork City Community Pride which we are proud to be media partner for from Frank Dermody, one of the organizers. See more here

Paul talks to in studio Insp Gillian Synnott of the Cork City Division Roads Policing Unit about their August Bank Holiday operation

It's Ireland's oldest regatta but it's got plenty of new ideas too Trisha Mclernon, Secretary of Kinsale Regatta and Teddy McNamara, the Regatta's Lifetime President tell Paul

It was a great night in Voodoo Rooms and Paul talks to three of our winners about the party and their own businesses, Norman Hegarty whose Woodflooring_by_norman got Best Business Instagram, John Fitzgerald who runs Fitz Fitness which won Best Gym and Libby from Libby Armstrong Nails who won Best Beauty Salon

Paul reads a message from a listener about how frustrating it is dealing with the rules for mortgages while also dealing with spiralling bids from other buyers and puts the points to Joey Sheehan from mymortgages.ie

Paul Byrne talks about how hard it is to get for teens to get jobs with insurance and training boxes to be ticked with Jen Hogan, parenting journalist with The Irish Times