Moncrieff

As dereliction increasingly becomes a problem in towns and cities across Ireland, one unfortunate consequence of this is public squalor.Joining Seán to discuss this is Dr Lorcan Sirr, Senior Lecturer in Housing at Technological University Dublin…

Anybody who has seen Jurassic Park will know that the park’s ferocious inhabitants are created by retrieving DNA from an ancient mosquito captured in amber.In reality, finding sufficiently intact DNA from dinosaurs who died out 66 Million years ago is extremely unlikely, if not impossible…However, the wooly mammoth only died out about ten to fifteen thousand years ago, so could they be brought back?Ben Lamm is Co-Founder and CEO of Colossal Biosciences. He joins Seán to discuss.

Most people would like to have a Government that is representative of the population, but there are some groups with very little representation.Dr Vivian Rath, Research Fellow at the Trinity Centre for People with Intellectual Disabilities at TCD was part of a group that looked into the difficulties that people with disabilities face when trying to enter politics. He joins Seán to discuss.

Do you know what colours suit you?Are you a cool summer, or a deep spring… or does that mean anything to you at all?It seems that Colour Analysis Consultations are all the rage as people are seeking professional advice on the best colours they should be wearing to complement their skin tone.It’s a trend being driven by social media, but joining Seán to explain how it actually works is Colour and Image Consultant, Saffron Cullen...

You will inevitably encounter many phrases while out shopping trying to convince you how natural the food you are buying is. Does 'free range' actually mean what you think it does?Are we getting conned by ‘greenwashing’ claims on our food products?Joining Sean to discuss is Paula McIntyre, Chef and Food Writer and Chair of the Irish Food Writers Guild.

Is your local cafe being ruined by ‘laptop squatters’?You know the type, they’re working remotely and tapping loudly on their laptops while drinking one measly coffee over the course of a full 8 hour working day…Freelance Journalist Niamh O’Reilly has had enough, and joins Seán to discuss.

For most couples who live together, in a clichéd way, there seems to be some jobs that the man will do, and ones that the woman will.Freelance Journalist Chloë Hamilton and her partner, as an experiment, decided to swap roles. She joins Seán to discuss the results.

Chloe McPolin, journalist with the Irish Independent is with Moncrieff today in speaking about a task we all have difficulty with; finding a new hobby.

Mummy Pig, the mother of Peppa, the porcine heroine of the long running TV series, is pregnant.And as a TV show aims to express the undoubtedly difficult task of introducing a new member to your family, Moncrieff brings on their own expert. Jen Hogan, Irish Times Columnist, who has had to perform this task with her seven children joins Moncrieff to go through it all.

Henry McKean is out and about for NewsTalk to ask the question; ‘what is the right amount of friends?’