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Filmmaker and photographer, Noel McIntyre spoke to Tom Dunne about his new photo book showcasing the Fleadh. ‘RíRá Mullingar: A Fleadh Cheoil Chronicle’  captures the magic the Fleadh brought to Noel's hometown of Mullingar.

This weekend, several surviving items from the Titanic were snapped up at auction for eyewatering prices.  A dinner menu from the ship offering oysters, beef, spring lamb and mallard duck fetched £83,000 while a pocket watch owned by one of the passengers carried a price tag of £97,000. Tom was joined by Andrew Aldridge, Managing Director of Henry Aldridge and Son to discuss.

'Dublin: Mapping the City' is a new book that explores historic maps of Dublin city, tracing its evolution through an examination of the hygiene, urban planning and even the car parking story of the nation’s capital. Tom spoke to co-author Joe Brady.

Luckily, conversation about menopause is beginning to open up in Ireland, but there is still a lot of mis- and dis- information to wade through when getting to grips with the condition. There are ways to cope with the adverse effects of menopause, and there is no ‘one size fits all’ approach. Dr Caoimhe Hartley joined Tom to discuss how best to manage menopause.

Connecting with nature is also an opportunity to connect with yourself. So says ancestral skills teacher and wildlife tracker Lucy O’Hagan, whose ‘Wild Awake’ classes rekindle ancestral life ways for cultural and ecological resistance in Ireland. Think living of off wild foods, tanning animal hides, and building fires from scratch. There has been an enormous surge in a desire to reconnect with the land in modern Ireland. Why exactly is this, and how can the revival of ancient practices improve our livesTom spoke to Lucy to learn more.

An impromptu trad session on board a delayed Aer Lingus flight last week got a mixed response online and revealed the schism in Irish culture between celebrating traditional music and scoffing at the musicians and their “diddley-eye” tendencies.  People took to X, formerly Twitter, in droves to ridicule the musicians onboard, with some saying they’d rather the plane be hijacked than have to sit through the ruckus. Where does this aversion to traditional Irish music come from, and why is it so widespread? Tom spoke to Edel Fox, a proud trad musician and a producer and director at Tyrone Productions.

The office whipround, a mainstay of offices when celebrating milestones or farewells, has undergone a massive transformation in recent times. Previously, the practice involved the simple but agonising process of collecting cash and putting it in a card.  With the advent of remote working and the decline of cash the whipround has undergone a transformation. Platforms such as Collection Pot, Giftround, and Thankbox are springing up to provide a digital alternative. Pilita Clark, Associate Editor and Business Columnist at the Financial Times, joined Tom to discuss.

Around 80,000 homes and businesses were without power at one stage this morning due to Storm Debi, as the storm made its way through the country overnight and through the early part of today.Were the weather warnings, which we were issued last night and through this morning, fit for purpose?To discuss, Tom spoke to Cathal Nolan, a climatologist at Ireland’s Weather Channel.

The Moncrieff show comes to you today live from Galmont Hotel for Movies and Booze with thanks to our friends in Marks and Spencer.The world of motorsport has unfairly been dominated by males since its conception. But that is starting to change.One woman on the cusp of that change is Aoife Rafferty a Galway Native and Rallycross Driver.Aoife In 2022 was selected as the first female driver into the Motorsport Ireland (MI) Rally Academy and is just back from the British Rallycross where she finished 5th place in her first-ever Rally Cross tournament.Tom Dunne was thrilled to sit down with Aoife to chat about the world of motorsport, the lack of gender diversity in the sport and how she found herself becoming a rallycross driver.

The Moncrieff show comes to you today live from Galmont Hotel for Movies and Booze with thanks to our friends in Marks and Spencer.As we are in Galway, Tom Dunne sat down for a chat with internet sensation comedian and local, Stevo Timothy.Stevo's Farmer Michael sketches have gained him millions of views online, gathering him a huge amount of attention on social media.The two chatted about interactions in public, social media and whether he prefers live comedy over his online sketches.