Seán Moncrieff

On the show today: Do we care about nature?; Advice from your mother; Irish women vs the law; Antisemitism in Ireland; Reviews of ‘Rooster’ ‘Handcuffed: Last Pair Standing’ & ‘Young Sherlock’; A community run pub…

Meant to post this yesterday. But still relevant today

Well there is the fact that some products just don’t sell or there’s an overproduction, rare as most factory systems are digitally ran nowadays, occasionally the order will be to run out that product . Then hapless staff have to find somewhere to sell it . The stories I could tell

Seán Moncrieff: The allure of random-product shops selling cheap stuff we don’t need? It’s dizzying In the thrill of the search, we rarely consider the quality, where it’s been made, or under what circumstances

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On the show today: The new government jet; The Deaflympics; Upstaging the bride; The most expensive Lego set; Wine made by women; Showbiz news; Reviews of ‘The Bride’ & ‘Peaky Blinders: The Immortal Man’

On the show today: Life in crumbling Cuba; Photographing bogs; Can marketing make kid eat vegetables?; Inappropriate laughter; Barbara Sculy & Declan Buckley think you need professional help; Sexist Gen Z; 19 years of Tedfest.

On the show today: Ten years of chipping dogs; Try A Trade; The tear-less onion; 50 years of the Ford Fiesta; Irish funerals in the UK; Parenting; Why don’t the Dutch close their curtains?

The Irish For: Baby names - Rían’s fada and the myth of the ‘neutral’ name Ireland’s latest baby-name data shows how parents bend tradition, blur gender lines, and quietly make wishes for their children’s futures, writes Darach Ó Séaghdha.

I'm going to be on @seanmoncrieff.bsky.social this afternoon talking about this piece I wrote on baby name trends for @thejournal.ie !

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On the show today: Is reporting sex abuse cases worth it? Sea creatures dying in tangle nets; Does no one want to be a bus driver?; The schoolboy urban farm; Are Irish names becoming more gender neutral?; World news; Did Jim Carrey really receive a French award?

On the show today: A heart attack at 27; Spring cleaning; Can reading prevent loneliness?; The killing of Trotsky; What can the Welsh teach us about Irish?; Reviews of ‘DTF St Louis’ ’Paradise S2’ & ‘Scrubs’; A slow boat to the holidays…

Seán Moncrieff: When I was young and foolish, my friend and I hitchhiked around Europe Between then and now so much has changed, while so much has remained the same

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I got my killin' hat on. Who we bombing today?

Trump allowed Doonbeg expansion - if he protects the snails | Newstalk Clare County Council has given the green light for a new 320-capacity ballroom at Trump Internati...

Pod of my chat with @seanmoncrieff.bsky.social this afternoon to discuss how Trump’s Doonbeg expansion plans have to take account of endangered snails.

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On the show today: Irish pub crawls; The joy of libraries; Sex in Denmark; Do we really protect snails?; Showbiz news; Wine; Reviews of ‘The testament of Ann Lee’ & ‘The Moment’

You're probably staring at one right now.

How men secretly feel in the toilet...

On the show today: a National Women’s Museum?; Making a will in your twenties; The death of the estate car; How to rent a goat; LGBTQ+ poverty; World News; The lettuce haircut..

Diet and exercise.

Weirdly,it never sold.

Seán Moncrieff: As our family grows, full wine glasses keep appearing as if by magic A family is like a dynamic system, slowly growing over time and spreading across counties and countries

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This diagram explains what happens next with those US tariffs.