The Week That Was with Aoife Moore

Many people living in Ireland have an invisible disability, meaning they may not receive the same amount of support when handling daily life. Emily Larkin set up Invisible Disability Ireland, which focuses on raising awareness and campaigning on invisible disabilities to achieve ...  Show more

Dr Sarah Cleary, with a Phd in Horror, Popular Culture and Censorship, dissected the horror genre, and offered suggestions for some great scary films to sink your teeth into over the bank holiday. 

We take a look back on the stories of the week on our Friday Forum. Joining Pat in studio this morning was Craig Hughes Political Editor, Irish Daily Mail,  Senator Barry  Ward Fine Gael Senator & Seanad Spokesperson on Justice and also Mairead Farrell Sinn Fein TD for Galway.   

Journalist Sean O'Driscoll met the IRA Heiress herself. He would cycle to her Dublin care home to chat over tea and biscuits. Though he went easier on the digestives after he found out Rose was the architect of the biscuit-launcher: a deadly weapon used in countless attacks du ...

Margaret talks with writer and podcast host Sarah Marshall about the prisons for "fallen women" around the UK, US & Ireland, and the many people who fought against them, like Sinéad O'Connor.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. 

While we’re on the last week of our summer break, we’re bringing you one of our most popular episodes from the back catalogue.For over four decades, contraception was not just taboo in Ireland—it was illegal. From 1935 to 1979, selling contraceptives and even accessing informatio ...  Show more