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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'
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May 10, 2025 • 10min
Fitness trainer to the stars, DB DONAMATRIX
Wellfest will take place in IMMA at the Royal Hospital in Kilmainham this weekend and will see movement, mindfulness, fitness, and food take centre stage. One of the headliners is globally recognized celebrity fitness trainer to the stars, DB DONAMATRIX – he joins Anton to chat about his career and more.

May 10, 2025 • 23min
What's Going on with Barry Kenny & Brenda Power
The Munster senior camogie final between Cork and Waterford has been cancelled amid the ongoing controversy around the wearing of skorts. Joining Anton to discuss the decision and the issues more broadly is Fine Gael Senator, Evanne Ní Chuilinn.Also joining Anton to run through the main stories form th Saturday papers is Barry Kenny, Corporate Communications Manager with Irish Rail & Brenda Power, columnist with the Sunday Times and the Irish Daily Mail.

May 10, 2025 • 8min
Does removing the triple-lock undermine Ireland's tradition of neutrality?
A group of cross Oireachtas politicians is demonstrating at 2pm in Dublin today against what they believe are government efforts to undermine Irelands long tradition of neutrality by the removal of the triple lock. Joining Anton to discuss the issues is People Before Profit TD, Paul Murphy.

May 4, 2025 • 21min
The Irishman designing the homes for Hollywood's mega-rich
Paul McClean is a Dublin-born, Los Angeles-based architect who designs and builds some of the most incredible mansions for Hollywood's elite. Paul joins Anton to chat about his career.

May 4, 2025 • 12min
Skorts controversy: What is the issue & why are players protesting?
Yesterday, Kilkenny and Dublin faced off in the Leinster senior camogie semi-final; however, before the match could get going, both teams initially came onto the pitch wearing shorts instead of the regulatory ‘skorts’, and almost saw the match being completely called off as a result. This is because under rule 6(b) of the sport’s code, playing gear must include a skirt/skort/divided skirt. Joining Anton to discuss the issue is Kilkenny corner-back, Michelle Teehan & Anna Geary, former Cork camogie captain & presenter of the docu-series 'Why Girls Quit Sport'.

May 4, 2025 • 11min
Ireland's Tax Mirage: Just how vulnerable is Ireland?
$967 billion of intangible assets have been held in Ireland by multinational corporations as part of sophisticated tax avoidance schemes, a Business Post investigation this weekend revealed. Killian Woods, Senior Business Reporter at Business Post, joins Anton to discuss.

May 4, 2025 • 36min
Anton’s Sunday Newspaper Panel May 4th
Joining Anton to run through the main stories from the Sunday papers is Lynn Boylan, MEP; John Cunningham, Relationship Director at Morgan McKinley; Kate O’Connell, Former Fine Gael TD; and Conor Faughnan, CEO at Royal Irish Automobile Club & commentator on transport & related issues.

May 4, 2025 • 7min
Are data centres preventing new houses from connecting to the electricity grid?
The ESB has flagged with the Commission for Regulation of Utilities (CRU) that the volume of electricity demand from data centres is jeopardising the delivery of network capacity for key priorities of housing, transport, and climate. Lynn Boylan, Sinn Fein MEP for Dublin, joins Anton to discuss.

May 3, 2025 • 11min
In conversation with Gearoid Farrelly
Anton is joined by one of Ireland’s finest comedians and host of the Agony Rants Podcast, Gearoid Farrelly.

May 3, 2025 • 9min
Ask The Expert: Dr Eleanor Galvin
Anton is joined by Dr. Eleanor Galvin to answer listeners' questions on all things medical.


