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When you’re buying a new car, you’d be mad not to take it for a test drive. How else could you really know whether it’s the car for you?Yet, when we buy a house, a much more expensive and longterm purchase we barely kick the tires. We may have one or two twenty minute visits before making the call.There must be a better way. In America, more and more people are requesting a sleepover in advance of buying a property, but could that work here?Estate Agent Owen O’Reilly joins Seán to discuss.

Dolphins have long made the waters off Ireland home, with the first record of a dolphin in Irish waters being recorded as far back as 752 AD. But in recent decades, dolphins have been coming closer to shore, and this isn’t necessarily a good thing.Ken O’Sullivan is an Underwater Cameraman and Filmmaker, and has been recording the animals for over 20 years.He joins Seán to discuss his new documentary covering the subject.

A lady was recently at a baby shower, and the mother to be was manifesting the sex of the baby, convinced it would work in her favour. Is this positive psychology actually borderline toxic on the basis there are some actual things that you can't possibly control or change?Henry McKean has been asking the public, and joins Seán to discuss.

For decades now there has been a widely held belief among researchers that we are at our happiest in early adulthood, and then as we age into our middle age, we get more and more gloomy and unsatisfied with our lives.But, new research suggests that for the first time in generations, the average 22-year-old is likely to be unhappier than their parents…So, why then are younger adults struggling so much with their overall happiness?Colman Noctor is a Child and Adolescent Psychotherapist, and joins Seán to discuss.

Seán’s guest has spent the past 20 years recording her relationship with her son Jim. The culmination of this longitudinal project is ‘Motherboard’, a film that will screen at the upcoming IFI Documentary Festival on Sunday September 14th, followed by a Q&A with Victoria and her son afterwards.Victoria joins Seán to discuss.

For many communities, there is a sense that as life gets busier some of the heart of the community can fade away; in Bluebell in south west Dublin, a new initiative is changing things and giving local people a safe place to go.Dr Tommy Coombes manages the Bluebell Community Development Project, and coordinates the regeneration programme. He joins Seán to discuss.Image: https://bluebellcdp.ie

When was the last time you got together with all of your oldest friends?Friendship changes as we get older, and it can get harder and harder to prioritise time with pals…Journalist and author Pat McCarry had great plans for his 20-year J1 reunion, but learned that life in your forties is very different to what you envisioned when you were footloose and fancyfree in your early twenties...Pat joins Seán to discuss.

Will Taylor Swift change the engagement ring industry after sharing shots of her giant ring and romantic proposal with NFL player Travis Kelce?Matthew Weldon is an Antique and Vintage Jewellery Expert, who owns Courtville Antiques. He joins Seán to discuss the history of engagement rings…Image: @taylorswift on Instagram

A new EU directive on pay transparency is going to change how open companies need to be about the salaries they offer to their employees, but what will this mean for cutting the gender pay gap?Joining Seán to discuss is Deirdre Malone, Head of Employment at EY Law Ireland...

It is very likely that someone has said “one hundred percent” to you when what they actually mean is “yes”, but why has this affirmation become so commonplace?Joining Seán to unpack this is Gail Flanagan, Researcher in Applied Linguistics at the University of Limerick...