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Are you more interested in being the head of mischief or a people’s champ than a marketing manager or a retail assistant? Even if the title aside, it’s the same role, same pay and same crap annual leave allocation! The rise in creative job titles continues – Donal O'Donoghue, managing director of sanderson recruitment joined Sean to discuss why we are all getting creative with our job titles now.

Florida has woken up to a problem it doesn’t usually have, frozen iguanas falling out of trees. A rare cold snap over the weekend has left the oversized lizards so stunned they’re literally dropping onto lawns, pavements and the occasional parked car. And in a move that sounds more like a game show than wildlife management, residents have been given a limited window to scoop them up and hand them in — all in the name of pest control.  Jessica Kilgore from Iguana Solutions in Florida joined Sean to discuss.

In long-running soaps, it’s often not the storylines we remember most, but the characters who carry them. In Home and Away, few characters sparked as much debate, devotion, and disruption as the Braxton brothers. Love them or loathe them, they didn’t just stir up Summer Bay — they changed it. The right characters can make a series thrive… while the wrong ones can risk breaking it.Joining Sean to discuss why certain characters can be the foundations of a certain soup was Jessica Shine, Media Communications Department of MTU Munster Technological University...

Jonathan DeBurca Butler joins Seán Moncrieff to take listeners through the week's international stories. 

Inflation has finally reached the corridors of power. TDs and Senators are now paying more for meals in the Dáil bar and Members’ Restaurant, with price hikes on everything from soup and burgers to calamari and lamb. While costs have risen across the menu, prices still undercut most Dublin city eateries — and notably, wine prices have been left untouched. So, is Leinster House feeling the squeeze like everyone else, or is this a reminder of how insulated political life can be?Joining Sean was Craig Hughes, Political Editor of the Irish Daily Mail

A man in the UK has broken the record for the world’s fastest wheelie bin. Joining Sean to explain how he made and designed the world's quickest bin was Mechanical Design Engineer and binfluencer Michael Wallhead.

The long-term forecast by Met Eireann is of low pressure and more rain and possibly more flooding. There could be snow in ten days.But with the poor weather, how do you stay positive with the constant rain? The heavy traffic, the flooding, the misery ? Newstalk Reporter Henry McKean joined Sean to discuss.

When the cosmetics giant L’Oreal hired an OnlyFans model as a brand ambassador, it raised some eyebrows. Is the normalisation and mainstreaming of sex work content creators posing a danger to girls' futures? Joining Sean was  Eoghan Cleary, a secondary school teacher and Educational Expert with the Sexual Exploitation Research and Policy Institute, who has been writing about this in The Journal

WEEE Ireland are sending 1 million blue battery boxes to homes around the country this month to try and encourage better recycling habits. But why exactly are we not allowed to chuck old batteries in the black bin? Joining Sean was   Leo Donovan, CEO of WEEE Ireland to explain...

A tough new parenting trend known as Fafo – “f*** around and find out” – is taking off on social media, with some parents rejecting gentle parenting in favour of natural consequences and tough love. But does it teach resilience and independence, or leave children feeling unsupported and ashamed? Richard Hogan, Child Psychotherapist, joined Sean to discuss the ins and outs of  Fafo