Newstalk Weekend

We all know about the iconic cuisines of the world from Italian to French, but do we underappreciate irish food? A new show airing on BBC called 'Anna Haugh's Big Irish Food Tour' is a 15-part series explorong the magic of our own food and cuisine and will feature the likes of Katherine Ryan, Dennis Taylor, Angela Scanlon, Ed Byrne, Shayne Ward, Laura Whitmore, Vanessa Feltz, Diarmuid Gavin, and Eilish O’Carroll. Anton is joined by Anna ot chat about it all.

Joining Anton for this week's installment of As the Expert is Brian Burke, RTÉ Super Garden Judge, and Woodie's DIY and Garden Expert

Wellfest will take place in IMMA at the Royal Hospital in Kilmainham this weekend and will see movement, mindfulness, fitness, and food take centre stage. One of the headliners is globally recognized celebrity fitness trainer to the stars, DB DONAMATRIX – he joins Anton to chat about his career and more.

The Munster senior camogie final between Cork and Waterford has been cancelled amid the ongoing controversy around the wearing of skorts. Joining Anton to discuss the decision and the issues more broadly is Fine Gael Senator, Evanne Ní Chuilinn.Also joining Anton to run through the main stories form th Saturday papers is Barry Kenny, Corporate Communications Manager with Irish Rail & Brenda Power, columnist with the Sunday Times and the Irish Daily Mail.

A group of cross Oireachtas politicians is demonstrating at 2pm in Dublin today against what they believe are government efforts to undermine Irelands long tradition of neutrality by the removal of the triple lock. Joining Anton to discuss the issues is People Before Profit TD, Paul Murphy. 

Paul McClean is a Dublin-born, Los Angeles-based architect who designs and builds some of the most incredible mansions for Hollywood's elite. Paul joins Anton to chat about his career.

Yesterday, Kilkenny and Dublin faced off in the Leinster senior camogie semi-final; however, before the match could get going, both teams initially came onto the pitch wearing shorts instead of the regulatory ‘skorts’, and almost saw the match being completely called off as a result. This is because under rule 6(b) of the sport’s code, playing gear must include a skirt/skort/divided skirt. Joining Anton to discuss the issue is Kilkenny corner-back, Michelle Teehan & Anna Geary, former Cork camogie captain & presenter of the docu-series 'Why Girls Quit Sport'.

$967 billion of intangible assets have been held in Ireland by multinational corporations as part of sophisticated tax avoidance schemes, a Business Post investigation this weekend revealed. Killian Woods, Senior Business Reporter at Business Post, joins Anton to discuss.

Joining Anton to run through the main stories from the Sunday papers is Lynn Boylan, MEP; John Cunningham, Relationship Director at Morgan McKinley; Kate O’Connell, Former Fine Gael TD; and Conor Faughnan, CEO at Royal Irish Automobile Club & commentator on transport & related issues.

The ESB has flagged with the Commission for Regulation of Utilities (CRU) that the volume of electricity demand from data centres is jeopardising the delivery of network capacity for key priorities of housing, transport, and climate. Lynn Boylan, Sinn Fein MEP for Dublin, joins Anton to discuss.