Moncrieff Highlights

The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences has announced a new award for Stunt Design, which will be inaugurated at the 2028 Oscars.Joining Seán to discuss this is Mike O’Shea, an Irish film Stunt Consultant who has worked on movies such as Mission Impossible and No Time to Die…Image: Paramount Pictures

With the weather as glorious as it is, many people will be taking the chance to get out in nature and get hiking.Mountaineering Ireland have issued an urgent appeal for the public to prepare themselves when going on walking trails, and importantly to stay away from the Mourne Mountains because of fire.Helen Lawless joins Seán to discuss.

Seán’s guest lost her son in the 2017 Manchester Arena terrorist attack. After campaigning for many years for event venues to be obliged to prepare for terrorist attacks, ‘Martyn’s Law’, named after her son, was signed into law last week.Joining to discuss is Campaigner Figen Murray…Image: Peter Byrne/PA

How long does it take you to fall in love?And, is there such a thing as a slow burn, or should it be a whirlwind at the beginning?Jake Maddock, a Relationship Coach and author, has touched a nerve online declaring that for the first eight weeks of meeting somebody, you should only see them once a week so as not to rush it…Matchmaker Mairead Loughman joins Seán to discuss.

It’s the nature of news that once a conflict has ended, that country seems to slip out of our news feed, as if everything has been resolved and nothing remains to be decided.But, of course, that is far from the truth…Journalist Sally Hayden has visited Syria to see how things are playing out on the ground in the aftermath of the revolution. She joins Seán to discuss.

How do we try to save face when we’ve lost an argument or made a fool of yourself? After Trump’s tariff u-turn, do you apologise? Do you try to change the goalposts or pretend it never happened?Henry McKean has been out asking the public, and joins Seán to discuss.Image: Reuters

Are you any good at solving a Rubik’s cube?And have you heard of speedcubing?The new competition seems to be taking over the country as interest soars in the sport, with children keen to take part and solve rubix cubes as quickly as possible.For more on this, Seán is joined by Kevin Timmons from Speedcubing Ireland…

A new documentary film examines two charity concerts that John Lennon and Yoko Ono organised in the early 1970s, using a treasure trove of contemporary footage. Joining Seán to discuss more is Sam Rice-Edwards, Co-Director of One to One: John & Yoko…

Author Anthony Horowitz has revealed that he writes a letter to his wife with details of how his book ends, just in case he gets hit by a bus before finishing it.The novelist doesn’t want to leave his readers in suspense if anything happened to him, and confessed to this habit. So, what other weird and wacky writer superstitions do authors follow?Bestselling novelist Liz Nugent joins Seán to discuss.

Whether you blame them for the black death, or you just think they’re a bit gross, rats don’t have a fantastic reputation among us humans.And maybe that’s part of the problem.In an effort to rehabilitate the image of the humble rodent, PETA have written to the Cambridge dictionary asking for them to change the definition of “Rat”...Jennifer White from PETA joins Seán to discuss.