The Anton Savage Show

Anton is joined by Gerald Howlin, Public Affairs consultant and Irish Times columnist, and Siona Cahill, Accountant Director with DHR Communications and member of All Island Women's Forum to go through the big stories in Saturday's papers.There are 11 days to save Christmas as bids are being made to reroute tonnes of stock from Holyhead, and the latest batch of Gardai make the headlines.

Anton sits down with Donal Ryan, one of Ireland’s foremost writers. After picking up the Eason’s Novel of the Year prize at the An Post Irish Book Awards with Heart, Be At Peace, Donal is on a roll.

Alex Cooney, CEO of CyberSafeKids, and Conor Murphy, an English teacher in Skibbereen sit down with Anton as a new programme on Channel 4 follows a group of Year 8 pupils in school in the UK as they lock their phones in a glass cube for three weeks. They are about 12 years of age. As TV crews track this digital detox, is this the right approach? With kids now looking at countless notifications and even disturbing access to pornography, how can we help our kids reduce their addiction to having a phone in their hand?

Ray O’Donoghue, Nighttime Economy advisor for Dublin city sits down with Anton as a ‘welfare area’ is being set up in Dublin city centre. It will provide help such as first aid to anyone who needs urgent assistance on several busy nights ahead of Christmas.

Jennifer Sheahan, Irish Examiner Columnist and former winner of 'Home of the Year', & Bewley's Managing Director, Cole Campbell joins Anton as this weekend is likely to be one of the busiest of the Christmas period. How can we go about surviving all the madness and making it a more enjoyable experience? And how are retailers faring with the inundation of customers?

Anton sits down with one of Irish music's biggest advocates, Dave Fanning.Fanning At Whelan’s returned to TV screens this weekend, so Dave chats about a career in music and some his favourites.Hit 'Listen' to get all the chat.

Anton sits down with Paul Noonan, the frontman for Bell X1.Paul's career spans over 30 years so this is a chat not be missed.Paul's a new single My Bones A Scaffold is out now. Hit 'Listen' for more.

Comedian Jim Elliott sits down with Anton in the wake of Paul Mescal's appearance on SNL.Saturday Night Live has been one of the world's biggest drivers for popular culture, but is SNL still funny, or just cringe?Hit 'Listen' for more on this fascinating conversation.

Fianna Fáil spokesperson on Social Protection, Local Government and Electoral Reform, Deputy Paul McAuliffe sits down with Anton to get through what's likely to happen in the coming weeks in government formation talks.To get all the "behind the scenes" info on the government talks, hit 'Listen' now.

Anton sits down with broadcaster, Eileen Dunne; Mark Hennessy, Ireland and Britain Editor at the Irish Times; and John Cunningham, Relationship Director at Morgan McKinley, and Chair and Country Director of Lysis Group.The big parties and independents are getting ready to start government formation talks and even Barry Keoghan's decision to step away from social media.Hit 'Listen' to hear all this and much more on this brilliant panel discussion.