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Brendan O'Connor RTÉ
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3.8 • 37 Ratings
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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.
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Bluffer’s Guide to Metabolism
Why can some people eat what they want, and still never put on weight? What exactly is metabolism, and what can we do to alter it? Endocrinologist, Professor Mary Ryan, gives us a lay person’s introduction.
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Harvesting rainwater – making every drop count
With the warm weather, comes talk of water and conservation. Horticultural teacher Hazel Proctor tells Brendan how harvesting domestic, and rainwater can be a small, positive step many of us can take to futureproof our resources.
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Kevin Barry - The Heart in Winter
Author Kevin Barry's discusses his new novel The Heart of Winter, set in Butte, Montana in the 1890s. He also picked five songs that connect him to different moments in his life including writing poetry in Limerick graveyards as a teen and what the 'Walk Of Shame' meant in Cork in the 1990s
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Navigating Group Holidays
Psychotherapist Richard Hogan on how to ensure your holiday isn't a pressure cooker when you go away in a group with friends and family.
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No-bake desserts
Catherine Fulvio of Ballyknocken House shares her ‘no-bake' desserts, from the simple to the sophisticated.
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Swim Safely
Today's the first day of the summer season for Ireland's beach lifeguards and Brendan is joined by Caroline Casey, Water Safety Development Officer for Cork County Council with tips on staying safe in the sea and on the sand this bank holiday weekend.
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50 State Tour Through Rose Coloured Glasses
Adrian’s US tour is more to do with romance than reality. As an Irish man living in the US for over 25 years I have visited 42 states and currently live in Arizona. The town of Sedona that Adrian waxes lyrically over is thought of more as a tourist trap and when I was there it didn’t conjure up any songs either by The Eagles or even Jackson Browne.
Winslow Arizona is another disappointment known for a truck stop and a prison.
You know you’re nearing the prison when signposts along the road say Do Not Stop For Hitch Hikers.
Winslow is a Rez-Town as it stands on the edge of the largest Indian Reservation in the US @ 27 thousand square miles-home of The Navajo Nation it is stunning and barren and desolate with all the expected problems like poverty and alcoholism.
The sale of alcohol is illegal on the Reservation which helps create a certain dynamic in Rez-Towns.
As for eating in diners in big cities and you have to search hard for Mom & Pop entities-the name used for independent non-corporate businesses.
Mostly you’ll end up in Wendy’s Denny’s Arby’s It’s a Burger What A Burger lotta Burger In and Out Burger or MacDonalds.
City Centers are becoming a thing of the past in the US.
I do agree with Adrian on Indiana though.
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