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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May 17, 2025 • 12min
Camogie Skort Scandal Rolls On
The Camogie skort scandal that has seen so many protests across games over the past month continues.Most recently, AIB has come out in support of players, whereas other sponsors have stayed quiet.Anton is joined by Waterford Senior player Niamh Rockett to go through the latest.Listen here.
May 17, 2025 • 17min
What’s Going On?
Paul Hayes, CEO of Beachhut PR, and journalist Lise Hand join The Anton Savage Show for this week’s panel, discussing everything from politics and pop culture and all the headlines on today's paper.Listen here.
May 11, 2025 • 17min
John Boyne on his latest book 'Air'
John Boyne's quartet of interlinked novels, titled "The Elements", consists of 'Water', 'Earth', 'Fire', and 'Air'. The quartet explores the themes of trauma, responsibility, and guilt through four individual stories, each with a different narrator and connected by the elements. John joins Anton to chat about the latest, and final installment, 'Air'.
May 11, 2025 • 14min
'Meditations for Mortals' with Oliver Burkeman
When it comes to life and the amount of it we actually have to spend on Earth, it can be hard to figure out how best to utilise the time we have and to make it our own. Oliver Burkeman is an expert in this field whose books include ‘Meditations for Mortals’ and 'Four Thousand Weeks: Time Management for Mortals'. He joins Anton to discuss.
May 11, 2025 • 13min
Gary Gannon on drug use, stimatisation & decriminalisation
Over the next 9 months, the Oireachtas Committee on Drugs Use, chaired by Gary Gannon, will meet as it finishes its final report into the Citizens’ Assembly on drug use. Some of the recommendations included within that final report were a whole government approach to drug use in Ireland, the need to involve drug users in shaping drug policy, and a recommendation that possession of drugs for personal use be decriminalised. Gary Gannon, Social Democrats TD for Dublin Central joins Anton to discuss.
May 11, 2025 • 35min
Anton’s Sunday Newspaper Panel May 11th
Joining Anton to go through the main stories from the Sunday papers is Green Party leader, Roderic O’Gorman; Journalist & Broadcaster, Claire Brock; and Gary Murphy, Professor of Politics at DCU.
May 11, 2025 • 7min
"It's a complete lack of respect and regard for the players"
Following yesterday's Munster senior camogie final between Cork and Waterford being postponed amid the ongoing skorts controversy, Waterford Camogie player, Tara Power, joins Anton to discuss the fallout and what next steps need to be taken in order to resolve the issue.
May 10, 2025 • 21min
Labour MEP Aodhán Ó’Ríordáin on Darkness Into Light & dealing with bereavement and loss
This weekend will see Darkness Into Light take place. The annual dawn walk brings thousands of people together in communities across Ireland and beyond to support suicide prevention and mental health services. Joining Anton to talk about the meaning behind Darkness Into Light and why the work it supports is so vital is Labour MEP Aodhán Ó’Ríordáin.
May 10, 2025 • 9min
In conversation with Anna Haugh
We all know about the iconic cuisines of the world from Italian to French, but do we underappreciate irish food? A new show airing on BBC called 'Anna Haugh's Big Irish Food Tour' is a 15-part series explorong the magic of our own food and cuisine and will feature the likes of Katherine Ryan, Dennis Taylor, Angela Scanlon, Ed Byrne, Shayne Ward, Laura Whitmore, Vanessa Feltz, Diarmuid Gavin, and Eilish O’Carroll. Anton is joined by Anna ot chat about it all.
May 10, 2025 • 12min
Ask the Expert: Gardening with Brian Burke
Joining Anton for this week's installment of As the Expert is Brian Burke, RTÉ Super Garden Judge, and Woodie's DIY and Garden Expert
