Highlights From Moncrieff

Sarah Jane Tobin, Declan Buckley and Sean Moncrieff help tackle listener dilemmas.

Siobhán Bairéad college director in Connemara joined Seán to discuss the return of the Gaeltacht.

Why would someone wake up and claim they’re Napoleon? Why did a king believe he was made of glass? These questions and more are answered by Victoria Shepherd, BBC4 radio journalist, and author in her new book “A History of Delusions” where she tackles all sorts of flights of fancy.

With cost of living at an all time high Irish Tiktokker Travis Leon, decided to move out of Ireland to Bangkok in search of a cheaper lifestyle. He joined Sean to explain how much he is saving by living away from Ireland.

According to the Gambling Awareness Trust, the number of people who have sought treatment for problem gambling as well as alcohol and drug addictions has increased 20-fold in just four years.The GAT has launched a nationwide counselling service that can be accessed not only by problem gamblers but by their friends and family as well. Tom Boggin from Tallaght who has recovered from harmful gambling joined Sean to discuss how he first started gambling in childhood.

Elite sleepers, or "short sleepers" are biologically predisposed to need less sleep. They also sleep more efficiently, which allows them to wake up after four or five hours feeling as refreshed as many of us are after seven or eight hours. Sean was joined Motty Varghese Sleep Physiologist and Behavioral Sleep Therapist at Sleep Therapy Clinic in Dublin to explain what causes the condition.

The past year has seen a meteoric rise in the popularity of OnlyFans, a content subscription service known for its not safe for work content. While it’s widely considered a way for young women to slyly earn money on the side, there are many on the platform who treat sex work as their full-time job. Sinead Connell, a creator in the top 1% of OF workers in Ireland, is one of those people. Connell hopes to destigmatise sex work and highlight the complexities of sex work in Ireland, as shown in the documentary “Call Me Mommy” by Tara O’Callaghan, which has been selected for the internationally acclaimed Krakow Film Festival. She joined Sean to discuss the documentary and her life in the sex industry.

Anne Jirsch Professional psychic and author of Future Vision: Your Working Life joined Sean to discuss future life progression.

Jonathan deBurca Butler takes listeners through the week's international stories.

A Coventry woman who lived on cheese and onion crisp sandwiches for 23 YEARS has finally eaten a proper meal after being hypnotised. Zoe Sadler, 25, has munched on Walkers crisps in buttered white bread since she was a toddler. Sean was joined by David Kilmurry, the CBH psychologist who helped Zoe on this afternoon's show.

They say you can die of a broken heart and as it turns out you really can. Professor Carl Vaughan Consultant Cardiologist at the Mercy University Hospital in Cork joined Sean to discuss the medical reasons you can die of a broken heart.

Jen Hogan journalist with The Irish Times joined Sean on the show today to recap the stories making the headlines this past week.

James Dempsey joined Sean for the weekly TV review slot, TV on the Radio.

A recent survey in the UK found a sharp rise in shop lifting since the cost of living started to increase. They also found many shoplifters are first-timers. Henry McKean investigated if the same is true here.

A recent discovery of 5000-year-old poop at Stonehenge has revealed a lot about the diets and rituals of our neolithic ancestors. Doctor Piers D. Mitchell, one of Britain's leading biological anthropologists and the head of the Cambridge Ancient Parasites Laboratory joined Sean explain this faecal breakthrough.

People are getting their first smartphones younger and younger, and many have become critical of the “iPhone generations” glued to their screens. A lot of people in response to this reliance have gone on a digital detox and never looked back, but are smartphones really all that bad, or is it okay to depend on them? Kirsty Blake Knox joined Sean to explain how she thought she would feel cleansed after her own digital detox, but found that was not the case.

Ita O'Brien is an Intimacy Coordinator and Movement Director for film, television, and theatre. Since 2014, Ita O'Brien has been developing best practice when working with intimacy, scenes with sexual content, and nudity in film, TV, and theatre - the 'Intimacy on Set' guidelines. Ita pioneered the role of Intimacy Coordinator, which is gaining adoption in leading production houses, including HBO, Netflix, and the BBC. Ita coordinated the scenes in Conversations with Friends and told Sean all about it

This week on Parenting with Joanna Fortune they discussed a number of issues, including that of a two year old figured out how to climb out of his cot

Julia Bradbury was diagnosed with breast cancer in September 2021 and she received the news while filming for This Morning in the This Morning forest. She spoke to Sean about her diagnosis, telling her children about her cancer and more.

Following the death of least 19 children and two teachers after a teenager opened fire at a primary school in Texas, in the worst school shooting in the US in nearly a decade, Sean was joined by Greg Swenson, Chairman of Republicans Overseas UK.