Brendan O'Connor

RTÉ

Brendan O'Connor has all you need for the weekend with time to pause and reflect on the week just gone. Featuring a selection of human interest, consumer and lifestyle stories, as well as keeping you up to date on the news stories that matter. Listen live Saturday and Sunday at 11am - 1pm on RTÉ Radio 1.

  • 8 minutes 48 seconds
    Hot Cocktails
    Christmas Cocktails
    13 December 2025, 11:00 am
  • 34 minutes 52 seconds
    Book gift ideas from John Banville, Clelia Murphy & Leo Varadkar
    Christmas books
    13 December 2025, 11:00 am
  • 11 minutes 23 seconds
    Joseph O’Connor - “Even Christmas in New York couldn’t match an Irish Christmas”
    Author Joseph O’Connor won the An Post Irish Book of the Year this week for ‘Ghosts of Rome’. He joined Brendan to talk about his delight and gratitude, moving home to Ireland on Christmas week 25 years ago and he also read a Christmas-themed poem, ‘Solstice at Newgrange’.
    13 December 2025, 11:00 am
  • 31 minutes 51 seconds
    Tommy Tiernan - “My wife and I make love at midnight each Christmas Eve”
    Comedian and broadcaster Tommy Tiernan told Brendan about his mixed feelings around Christmas, his Christmas rituals, learning to sing for an upcoming musical and the 10th series of The Tommy Tiernan Show returning in the new year.
    13 December 2025, 11:00 am
  • 7 minutes 39 seconds
    Twink - “My parrot, Timberlake, was my soulmate”
    Actor Adele King, AKA Twink, told Brendan about the devastation she is feeling over the death of her parrot and panto co-star, ‘Timby’, after 26 years together. She also talked about her love for the rest of her pets, including a magpie who lives in her house.
    13 December 2025, 11:00 am
  • 12 minutes 34 seconds
    The Watchlist
    Writer Henrietta McKervey and host of the ‘Here and Back Again’ podcast, Dave O’Callaghan join Brendan to discuss some of the best film and TV this week. Their choices include ‘Eternity’, ‘Ripple’ and ‘President Connolly: How The Race Was Won’.
    7 December 2025, 11:00 am
  • 5 minutes 2 seconds
    Tickets for Christmas? The best music and comedy gigs coming in 2026
    Broadcaster Aifric O’Connell tells Brendan about some of the best live music and comedy gigs in Ireland next year, to help anyone putting tickets on their Christmas list.
    7 December 2025, 11:00 am
  • 31 minutes 21 seconds
    Blindboy on battling agoraphobia, the trauma of school and how Stevie Wonder stood in his living room!
    Podcaster and writer, Blindboy talks Brendan through the soundtrack to his life, including songs by Stevie Wonder, Randy Newman and Gil Scott-Heron.
    7 December 2025, 11:00 am
  • 48 minutes 54 seconds
    The Newspaper Panel
    Joining Brendan to dissect the stories making the headlines today, are Executive Director of TASC, Shana Cohen; Special Correspondent for the Irish Examiner, Mick Clifford; Chief Economist with Deloitte Ireland, Kate English; and John O’Brennan, Professor of European Politics at Maynooth University.
    7 December 2025, 11:00 am
  • 10 minutes 38 seconds
    Simple head, neck and shoulder hacks with physiotherapist Aisling Frawley
    Chartered Physiotherapist Aisling Frawley tells Brendan why we experience stiffness in our head, neck and shoulders, and talks him through some easy exercises, to unstiffen those muscles and keep deeper problems at bay.
    6 December 2025, 11:00 am
  • 26 minutes 14 seconds
    How Manchán Magan changed Bobby Ewing’s life
    Actor Patrick Duffy, AKA Bobby Ewing from Dallas, and his partner, actor Linda Purl, talk about their new RTÉ show, ‘Duffy’s Pub’ which will air on RTÉ One on Dec 28th at 6.30pm. They told Brendan about touring Irish pubs, their relationship with the late Manchán Magan and bringing Patrick’s father’s ashes home to Ireland.
    6 December 2025, 11:00 am
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