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It may seem like a notion of times past, but are there any treasure shipwrecks in Ireland? According to Edmond O’Byrne, Member of the Lifeboat in Kilmore Quay, there is one buried deep under the sand off the coast of Wexford, and he has been trying to access it for over 30 years...

Are your 20s the best decade of your life?  Is it the golden decade where you set yourself up for careers, life partnerships and the prospect of children? Or is it simply that we look back to our youth with rose-tinted glasses?  Sean was joined by Leslie Shoemaker, counselling psychologist and lecturer in TU Dublin to discuss...

Ireland is just one of a very small handful of countries in Europe that doesn’t have an Olympic-sized ice rink. This has put athletes and parents up and down the country in the frustrating position of having to leave the country to access facilities. Brendan O’Brien, Sports writer with the Irish Examiner, has been investigating and he joined Sean to discuss...

Le Chéile Mentoring, the national volunteer mentoring and family support service, has launched a new recruitment campaign seeking Dubliners to become mentors of young people and parents. The organisation provides a one-to-one mentoring service for young people and parents referred by the Probation Service, An Garda Síochána and the Oberstown Children Detention Campus. Cormac Ryan is Mentor Coordinator with Le Chéile in Dublin and he joined Sean on the show today...

An excavation is to take place at Mountjoy Prison to exhume the bodies of 29 bodies.  The 28 men and one woman were all executed for murder between 1923 and 1954.  But what were their stories? Why are they being exhumed now and what will happen to their remains? Tim Carey, historian and author of “Hanged For Murder: Irish State Executions”, joined Sean on the show today...

A controversy has erupted in the UK surrounding the use of software by the British Post Office, which lead to a number of former Post Masters wrongfully convicted of fraud, theft and more. The story has been depicted in the ITV drama Mr. Bates Vs The Post Office, which has been viewed over 8 million times in less then a week.  Lord James Arbuthnot is a former Tory MP, who was an advocate for the Post Masters group during at the height of the controversy and he joined Sean on the show today...

Star Trek fans out there will know all too well why 2024 is such a special year for Ireland’s relationship with Star Trek. In order to look at the mention of Irish reunification in a particular 1990 episode, Sean was joined by Brian Lloyd, Movie Editor at Entertainment.ie and Movies & Booze panelist...

It's that time of year where we are all tempted to pull a sickie or maybe we are genuinely sick. But how has it changed from the 1970, 80s and 90s until now?Henry 'the pulling a sickie' McKean, joined Sean on the show today...

A note left in an old book in the Royal Irish Academy Library in 1983 has been discovered 40 years later.Author of the letter, Brendan Guilfoyle, Professor of Mathematics at Munster Technological University in Kerry joined Sean on the show today...

Over 6,700 cases of gonorrhoea were reported in Ireland last year, up from 3,976 in 2022. There has been a 70% increase in the number of gonorrhoea cases in Ireland, according to the latest figures from the Health Protection Surveillance Centre. The main reason for this increase has been put down to younger people no longer wearing condoms. Dr. Derek Freedman, specialist in the treatment of STI’s joined Sean on the show to discuss...