Lunchtime Live

Are you thinking about solar panels or retrofitting? And are there things we can do to our homes that might help, without breaking the bank?
Brian McIntyre, Programme manager at SEAI joined Andrea on the show to answer all of our listener questions.

Should Parents get priority over child-free colleagues on booking annual leave? Andrea was joined on the show by Siobhan O’Neill White from Mams.ie, Saoirse Hanley, Journalist with the Irish Independent and Damien McCarthy from the HR Buddy to discuss.

The Climate Change Advisory Council has released a statement urging the Government to stop "treating extreme events" such as storms and floods "as one-off emergencies". With more weather events surely on the way, how prepared is your area?
Andrea was joined on the show by Councillor John O’Donoghue, Mayor of Killarney, Alan O’Reilly from Carlow Weather and Caroline Leahy, Secretary of the Midleton and East Cork Flood Protection Group to discuss.

The Transplant Football World Cup has just taken place in Frankfurt, with Ireland among the countries competing, and two of the players representing Ireland joined Andrea on the show, Val Weblin from West Cork and Shane Riordan from Dublin Newcastle who have both been through life-changing transplant journeys.

Katie Gallagher, Spin News Anchor, has her finger on the pulse for what’s happening and she joins Andrea with the things you don’t want to miss this week!