The Hard Shoulder

For this week’s Kids Health Check, guest host Jonathan Healy is joined by Mairead O'Keeffe, CEO of the Children's Grief Centre to discuss how to help your child navigate grief…

Voting day in the Presidential election is less than two weeks away, and polls so far have indicated a lead for Independent Catherine Connolly. With Jim Gavin’s drop out, Fine Gael’s Heather Humphreys still trails in the polls, but how much can we take from these polls, and much change is likely before election day?Guest host Jonathan Healy is joined by Politics Lecturer at TUD and Founder of Ireland Thinks, Kevin Cunningham, to discuss.

In the aftermath of a ceasefire deal being agreed by Israel and Hamas, US President Donald Trump said today that “...we are going to have hope, harmony, opportunity and happiness here”. Questions still remain over how the peace plan will be implemented, and whether the ceasefire will hold.Joining guest host Jonathan Healy to discuss it all is Oliver McTernan from Forward Thinking and Paul Brandus, West Wing Reports Founder.Image: Reuters

Minister for Health Jennifer Carroll MacNeill has today announced the Assisted Human Reproduction Bill, which includes a legal framework for both domestic and international surrogacy. It aims to protect the health and wellbeing of the child, surrogate, and the intended parents of the children born through surrogacy.Joining guest host Jonathan Healy to discuss is Lawyer Annette Hickey.

In the current housing crisis, many people are house sharing much later in life than they may like to, but how can you house share well, and are our attitudes to it wrong?Joining guest host Jonathan Healy to discuss is Saoirse Hanley, Features Writer with The Irish Independent.

We are all well aware of the costs of our groceries and how much they have increased in recent years. However, the price of milk has fallen over the past few days, and now consumers are wondering: will more products be next?Newstalk Reporter Josh Crosbie has been looking into these reductions and he joins guest host Jonathan Healy to discuss.

This week, guest host Jonathan Healy was joined by the presenter of Weekend Breakfast on Today FM, Alison Curtis and Off the Ball’s Ger Gilroy to look back on the week that was, but with a few twists…

Irish international rugby player Jack Conan joins guest host Jonathan Healy to talk all things Leinster rugby ahead of their upcoming matches!

It's World Mental Health day today, and one thing to look at are the mental health supports available in schools.Newstalk's Josh Crosbie has been investigating, and joins guest host Jonathan Healy to discuss.

MTV is withdrawing its music channel broadcasting outside of America, marking an end to its founding idea of broadcasting music 24/7…So, what made MTV such a cultural force?Joining guest host Jonathan Healy to look back is Producer of the ‘Culture Pigs’ podcast, Dee Reddy.