Newstalk Weekend

Professor Tony Holohan, director of the WHO collaborating centre on one health at University College Dublin sits down with Anton to reflect on the career and character of his friend Dr Mike Ryan, as the leading Irish WHO official was removed from his role in the past week.Listen here.

Psychotherapist and author Richard Hogan joins Anton to discuss a statement from the UK’s Education Secretary on how children need to start building resilience and emotional strength as key to preparing them for life’s challenges.Listen here.

The Camogie skort scandal that has seen so many protests across games over the past month continues.Most recently, AIB has come out in support of players, whereas other sponsors have stayed quiet.Anton is joined by Waterford Senior player Niamh Rockett to go through the latest.Listen here.

Paul Hayes, CEO of Beachhut PR, and journalist Lise Hand join The Anton Savage Show for this week’s panel, discussing everything from politics and pop culture and all the headlines on today's paper.Listen here.

John Boyne's quartet of interlinked novels, titled "The Elements", consists of 'Water', 'Earth', 'Fire', and 'Air'. The quartet explores the themes of trauma, responsibility, and guilt through four individual stories, each with a different narrator and connected by the elements. John joins Anton to chat about the latest, and final installment, 'Air'.

When it comes to life and the amount of it we actually have to spend on Earth, it can be hard to figure out how best to utilise the time we have and to make it our own. Oliver Burkeman is an expert in this field whose books include ‘Meditations for Mortals’ and 'Four Thousand Weeks: Time Management for Mortals'. He joins Anton to discuss.

Over the next 9 months, the Oireachtas Committee on Drugs Use, chaired by Gary Gannon, will meet as it finishes its final report into the Citizens’ Assembly on drug use. Some of the recommendations included within that final report were a whole government approach to drug use in Ireland, the need to involve drug users in shaping drug policy, and a recommendation that possession of drugs for personal use be decriminalised. Gary Gannon, Social Democrats TD for Dublin Central joins Anton to discuss.

Joining Anton to go through the main stories from the Sunday papers is Green Party leader, Roderic O’Gorman; Journalist & Broadcaster, Claire Brock; and Gary Murphy, Professor of Politics at DCU.

Following yesterday's Munster senior camogie final between Cork and Waterford being postponed amid the ongoing skorts controversy, Waterford Camogie player, Tara Power, joins Anton to discuss the fallout and what next steps need to be taken in order to resolve the issue.

This weekend will see Darkness Into Light take place. The annual dawn walk brings thousands of people together in communities across Ireland and beyond to support suicide prevention and mental health services. Joining Anton to talk about the meaning behind Darkness Into Light and why the work it supports is so vital is Labour MEP Aodhán Ó’Ríordáin.