The Hard Shoulder

Today, renovating a home is a difficult task, and even more so bringing vacant homes into action. One person knows that well, and he joins Kieran to discuss the difficulties of navigating that market - from grants to finance.Shay Lally of @houses_to_restore on Instagram joins the show!

You will have heard that two men have been arrested in connection with the fatal stabbing of an asylum seeker in Dublin at the weekend.The incident happened on South Anne Street in Dublin City Centre in the early hours of Saturday morning.After a couple of incidents last week too, is Dublin at risk of a perception problem? Could this stop people from coming to the city?Ray O’Donoghue is Dublin’s Night-Time Economy Advisor, and joins Kieran to discuss.

For this week’s Kids Health Check we are exploring how to talk to your children if they are having issues with their body image, and how to spot any early signs of eating disorders.Joining Kieran to discuss is Harriet Parsons, Psychotherapist and Training and Development at BodyWhys.

Pope Francis will stay in hospital for as long as is necessary – it's after he entered hospital on Friday to tackle a respiratory infection that has now become more “complex”...For more on this, Kieran is joined by Colm Flynn, Broadcaster with EWTN and BBC World Service.

The Cabinet met today to discuss new measures to get our housing market moving and increase supply. One option on the table is incentives for developers to build apartments and houses, possibly in the form of tax breaks...Joining Kieran to discuss if this is the right direction to go in is Tom Phillips, Managing Director of Tom Phillips and Associates, Adjunct Associate Professor of Architecture and Planning in UCD and Eoin O’Broin, Sinn Féin Housing Spokesperson and TD for Dublin Mid-West.

According to recent UK research, the tidiness of the home is the most common debate households have.Why is that? One of the reasons might be that our households simply have so much stuff – how on earth can we keep on top of keeping things tidy?Broadcaster and Writer Barbara Scully and Hazel Burton of Home Reset join Kieran to discuss.

‘Georgia Harrison: Porn, Power, Profit’ is a new documentary that follows the Reality TV Star as she investigates the world of revenge porn and image-based sexual abuse, which is an issue she knows herself having been a victim in 2023…Georgia Harrison joins Kieran to discuss.

Legal notices have been served to 13 operators of “dodgy box” streamers which could spell doom for those who use them.What is the effect on production companies of these boxes and would a more streamline service of all the streamers be an option to combat the popularity of the boxes?Larry Bass, CEO of ShinAwiL Production Company and Siobhan Maguire, Consumer Journalist join Kieran to discuss.

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

Fine Gael TD for Wicklow Edward Timmins has proposed an ‘American Presidents Trail’ to boost US tourism to our island. But, what is the exact plan – and would it work?Kieran has him in the studio to discuss!