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 29, 2024 • 15min
Ask the Expert: Gardening
Joining Anton to answer all of your gardening questions from the Night & Day Festival is Brian Burke, RTÉ Super Garden Judge and Woodie’s DIY and Garden Expert!
Jun 29, 2024 • 15min
What it's like running the HSE
Anton is joined by one man who has become synonymous with the country’s response to the Covid-19 Pandemic.Paul Reid, Chair of Citizens Assembly on Drug Use & Former HSE Chief joined the show to discuss his career past and present.
Jun 29, 2024 • 9min
Behind the scenes of a Beatles cover band!
Among the many acts performing over the course of the weekend for the Night & Day Festival is perhaps the world’s most famous cover band, The Mersey Beatles! Anton is joined by one of the band members Steve Howard, who has been doing his best Paul McCartney impression for over 25 years.
Jun 29, 2024 • 3min
How was Taylor Swift's first night in Dublin?
Taylor Swift played her first of three sold out shows in the Aviva Stadium in Dublin, as part of her 'Eras' tour. How many people were there on Friday night?50,000!Joining Anton to go through the show and experience is Taylor Swift superfan, Robyn Kelly.
Jun 29, 2024 • 18min
What’s Going On with Matt Carthy & Aisling O’Rourke
Joining Anton to run through the main stories from the Saturday papers at the Night & Day Festival are Sinn Féin’s Matt Carthy and Aisling O’Rourke, Lecturer and Podcaster.
Jun 29, 2024 • 14min
Night and Day Festival kicks off in Roscommon
The Night and Day Festival is taking place this weekend in Lough Key Forest Park Co Roscommon.A weekend packed with music, arts, political debate and family-friendly events.Newstalk reporter, Josh Crosbie, met with organisers, performers and festival-goers to get a sense of the atmosphere.
Jun 28, 2024 • 9min
In conversation with Nick Seymour of Crowded House
Anton chats with Nick Seymour, founding member of Crowded House about the band's early success, what brought him to Ireland to live with his family, and more.
Jun 23, 2024 • 20min
Aer Lingus Dispute: We hear from the striking Pilots and the Airline
The impact of the planned Aer Lingus pilot strike is continuing to bite the airline, its staff and the travelling public. Yesterday the number of flights cancelled between Wednesday and Sunday next week rose to 244, with the number of affected passengers now close to 15,000. Joining Anton was the Chief Corporate Affairs Officer for Aer Lingus Donal Moriarity and Ialpa President and airline captain Mark Tighe
Jun 23, 2024 • 7min
The Dublin man who survived a plane crash in the Alaskan wilderness
Kitty Holland in the Irish Times details the amazing story of Séan Killeen. Séan and his father-in-law Joe Beardmore were travelling as part of a dream fly fishing holiday in remote Alaska. As part of the itinerary of the trip, the two were flying out from Lake Clark after a day of fishing in a small DHC-2 single-propeller Beaver plane. A few minutes into the flight disaster struck. After suffering an engine failure, the plane was forced to crash land into the Alaskan wilderness. Joining Anton to tell the story was Séan.
Jun 23, 2024 • 6min
The Undocumented Irish in America: What’s Their Situation now?
In the '80s and early '90s, hundreds of thousands of young Irish emigrated all over the world in search of better lives, many of them ending up in the United States under unsuitable visas like the Morrison visa, leaving them effectively undocumented. The issue of undocumented Irish never really went away. Joe Biden this week took executive action to help document those who have been in the States for significant time. We thought we look back on the undocumented Irish and get updated on the present immigration issues facing Irish in the States Anton to discuss was John Fole, a Leading Boston-based immigration Lawyer.
