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From 3am bathroom wakes to 'Sunday Night Fever', sleep expert Tom Coleman tells PJ how modern mental loads wreck rest as we look forward to World Mental Health Day

Gary from Loc8 lifts the hood on Ireland's postcode system, detailing how 2.5 million addresses are mapped, why updates take months, and what alternatives exist.

Shop manager Eimear O’Donovan urges Cork shoppers to check their pockets and handbags before the weekend for the winning ticket in Wednesday night's Lotto jackpot purchased in Eason's Mahon Point It is a Quick Pick ticket sold on Tue Oct 6th with numbers 3, 17, 26, 29, 37, 42 and the Bonus was 38.

As anxiety, body-image worries, and attention issues spike in primary schools, Dr Brian Barron explains how North Cork’s Rebels Unplugged helps parents hit pause on smartphones without guilt or judgment. The launch is 7pm Tue Oct 13th in Grange National School, Fermoy—tickets are free on Eventbrite, and you can find out more at rebelsunplugged.com

Paul Byrne talks to Sonia O’Sullivan, Jimmy Barry-Murphy, and extraordinary service users celebrating 50 years of Irish Guide Dogs, and hears stories from Atlantic Ocean adventures to life-changing four-legged companions.

€3,600 in Taxis Just to Get to School Because Of School Bus CrisisTracey faces €120-a-day taxi runs and empty answers from officials while Aisling tells other parents not to give up because she got a school bus in the end after a struggle

PJ hears from father David Rose after essential school transport was pulled for his autistic son, Cork Sexual Violence Centre founder Mary Crilly looks back on a lifetime of advocacy as she retires, Minister Norma Foley on what Budget 2027 actually delivers for families. And more...

DoneDeal’s Head of Motoring Paddy Comyn delivers a straightforward verdict on fuel excise duty, EV grants, and creeping car taxes to PJ Coogan

The President of the European Society for Blood and Marrow Transplantation Prof Ibrahim Yakoub-Agha joins campaigner Mags McCarthy warning that forcing Cork patients to Dublin breaches clinical safety thresholds.