The Anton Savage Show
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Anton Savage presents a bright, lively and engaging current affairs magazine show to kickstart your weekend.
The programme features all the latest news, features and opinion along with conversations about the conversations you are having on a Saturday morning from 9-11am.
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The programme features all the latest news, features and opinion along with conversations about the conversations you are having on a Saturday morning from 9-11am.
Listen and subscribe to The Anton Savage Show on Apple Podcasts and Spotify.
Download, listen and subscribe on the Newstalk App.
You can also listen to Newstalk live on newstalk.com or on Alexa, by and asking: 'Alexa, play Newstalk'
Episodes
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Jun 7, 2025 • 15min
Bobby Healy of Manna Aero on expanding drone deliveries in Ireland
Drone delivery company, Manna Aero, this week signed contracts for one million daily delivery flights with three of the world’s biggest food delivery firms. Bobby Healy, founder and chief executive of Manna Aero, joins Anton to discuss the expansion of operations and his plans for the future.
Jun 7, 2025 • 12min
Ask The Expert: Pete the Vet
Joining Anton to answer all of your veterinary questions for this week's Ask the Expert is Pete the Vet.
Jun 7, 2025 • 7min
Recreation in Nature: The benefits of getting outside
This week, the CSO released information from its Recreation in Nature series, looking at the activities we got up to in the great outdoors last summer. Joining Anton to chat about the benefits of being outdoors and how to enjoy the natural surroundings we have on our doorstep is chartered psychologist, neuroscientist, and author, Sabina Bennan; Maura Kiely, Chief Executive Officer of Leave No Trace Ireland; and Teena Gates, broadcast journalist with the Bauer Group.
Jun 7, 2025 • 14min
Trump, Musk & the 'Big Beautiful Bill' falling out
In a falling out that was as caustic as it was inevitable, the world’s most powerful man and the world’s richest man traded some very public barbs in a showdown over a landmark Republican spending bill. Lurching from threats of terminating Tesla’s governmental subsidies to claims that Trump was “in the Epstein files”, Scott Lucas, Professor of International Politics at the Clinton Institute, University College Dublin, joins Anton to discuss where it all went wrong for Elon Musk and Donald Trump.
Jun 7, 2025 • 4min
Henry McKean on 'Ferris Bueller’s Day Off' turning 40
40 years ago on June 5th, 1985, the Chicago Cubs hosted the Atlanta Braves at Wrigley Field in the smash hit 1980s movie 'Ferris Bueller's Day Off'. Henry McKean was on the streets of Dublin, asking people if they ever skipped school like Mathew Broderick did all those years ago.
Jun 7, 2025 • 18min
What’s Going On with Brenda Power & Dan O'Brien
Joining Anton to go through the main stories from the Saturday papers is Dan O’Brien, Chief Economist at the Institute of International and European Affairs and Columnist with The Currency & Brenda Power, columnist with the Sunday Times and the Irish Daily Mail.
Jun 7, 2025 • 11min
Why have ASTI members rejected Leaving Cert reform proposals?
The prospect of industrial action in the autumn in second-level schools has been raised following the ASTI voting to reject a package of supports aimed at easing the roll-out of Leaving Cert reforms. Carl O'Brien, Education Editor of The Irish Times, joins Anton to discuss the issues.
Jun 1, 2025 • 13min
Eoin Ó Broin on homelessness & housing
Anton is joined by Eoin Ó Broin, Sinn Féin TD for Dublin Mid-West & party spokesperson for Housing, to discuss the number of people in emergency homeless accommodation across Ireland increasing to a record of 15,580, as well as the housing crisis more broadly.
Jun 1, 2025 • 22min
In conversation with Mariella Frostrup
Joining Anton in conversation this week is journalist, broadcaster, author, and campaigner Mariella Frostrup.
Jun 1, 2025 • 35min
Anton’s Sunday Newspaper Panel June 1st
Joining Anton to go through the main stories from the Sunday papers is Valerie Cox, journalist & author; Colm O’Gorman, Human Rights Campaigner; and Gabija Gataveckaite, Political correspondent with the Irish Independent.
