Liveline

But also it is one of those areas that maybe we haven't been having conversations about.

I remember Joe Duffy there before he finished up with LiveLine.

got the whole country talking about menopause.

And there were people in the country who probably hadn't heard the word before, much as the rest of us wonder, well, how could you not know what that is? 50% of the population are either going through it or have gone through it or will go through it.

I'm not going to lie, Darren, I ran a mile from all the hype at the time.

I tuned into that infamous episode of LiveLine like we all did during COVID, but that was kind of the height of it.

Too much hype.

When I tried to get to this program, everyone had already kind of memed it into Oblivion, and it was just shots of Paul Meskel running around in his GAA shorts everywhere,

... you know, if, if at all possible.

But my, my own story, and, and, and, um, Kieran Cuddihy covered this for four days on Liveline, um, just earlier this month, so it's not just my story.

You know, there, there, there were so, so many women from all around the country phoned in, and it's q- quite heartening for me, um, because, you know, my story began in two, 2015, the end of.

Um, I'd had a clear mammogram in June 2015, and it was one of many.

I, I think it's now being talked about, but the conversation has been led by patient advocates and women a- a- all around Ireland and their families, who realize the impact that it, it had on their own diagnosis.

Yeah.

I mean, we, we, you, you, over the few days with, with Liveline, we had women r- reporting, um, you know, um, late diagnosis from somewhere between five centimeters and 12 and a half centimeters within months of, of, of clear mammograms.

So, so no, we don't feel it's been taken-

He spoke out in support of the people of Gaza and was taken off the tour by the promoters and the tour's backers.

On Wednesday, Liveline got into it and Ciarán spoke to Fergal, who was actually at that concert.

When Macklemore came on, in fairness, I wasn't even too sure of his songs, but he's got some cracking hits.

But when he did it, free Palestine speech, and he did free Palestine chant a few times, everybody I could see stood up and applauded.

There are pints a-flowing elsewhere in the ploughing, or so I'm told.

Uh, now I know Kieran Cuddihy was, um, he did Liveline from Manhattan last week, and the bosses have sent me out the wet road from Tullamore, so I, I know who the favorite son is in Radioworld at the moment.

As you know, RTE is only at the ploughing as part of its 500 hours of community service it was sentenced to for the various scandals, um, which, uh...

Don't worry, I'm only joking about that because, um, there's no punishments for scandals in Ireland, let's face it.

And I have to say well done to Killian Sherlock of the Press Association, who was the one who tackled him on that at the press conference and asked him did he think was that appropriate language.

And, uh, the, uh, reaction, I guess, was immediate, and we heard Liveline was quite moving and, um, on Thursday.

And you had Rachel Morrow from the Rape, Dublin Rape Crisis Centre calling for him to apologize.

You saw on Friday Michael O'Leary, in true Michael O'Leary fashion, doubling down and actually calling for Rachel Morrow to r- withdraw her remarks.

We have to get in there.

Cormac O'Hara talking to Tom on Wednesday's Liveline.

And for the last word on this story, Minister Patrick O'Donovan spoke to David McCullough on the Today Show on Thursday following his meeting with the relevant parties the previous day.

The Minister's tone was notably upbeat.

Minister Patrick O'Donovan on Thursday's Today Show.

The 25th anniversary of 9-11 received extensive coverage on air this week.

Many radio listeners will first have heard news of the attack on Liveline which came on air just moments after the first plane hit the first tower.

To mark the occasion, Friday's Liveline was broadcast from New York where Ciarán Cudahy spoke to people who lost loved ones or whose lives were forever changed by 9-11.

I don't think we'd have had the same level of enthusiasm for Kate Taylor in Croke Park if, last week, if we had known that this was coming back down the track from the GAA.

And I'm thrilled that Mary McAleese lit, lit the room on fire as she exited because it was on Liveline today, Conor, and when it makes Liveline, it's, it's making news.

You know, people were genuinely incensed on both sides.

You know, I, I listen to both sides, but people were genuinely incensed today at 1:00 that this had taken place and that we had lost somebody of Mary McAleese's caliber as a former president of Ireland, and that she felt the need to go nuclear yesterday.