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'When someone has less ability, people tend to assume they have no ability'

TALK TIME: Actor Mat Fraser talks to EOIN BUTLER

Sat Mar 06 2010 - 00:00

'I realised that I would hate to be involved in any project in which I had no creative input. That's when I started writing my own songs'

TALK TIME: Marina Diamandis Greek-Welsh pop singer talks to EOIN BUTLER

Sat Feb 27 2010 - 00:00

'I was touring with the Stones, and I completely forgot the words to Memory Motel'

TALKTIME: DAVE MATTHEWS Actor, activist and frontman of the Dave Matthews Band

Sat Feb 13 2010 - 00:00
'When I started out on college radio, I wasn't very good . . . but the secret is that I persevered'

'When I started out on college radio, I wasn't very good . . . but the secret is that I persevered'

TALK TIME : DAN HEGARTY Alternative rock DJ

Sat Jan 16 2010 - 00:00
'When I started out on college radio, I wasn't very good . . . but the secret is that I persevered'

'When I started out on college radio, I wasn't very good . . . but the secret is that I persevered'

TALK TIME : DAN HEGARTY Alternative rock DJ

Sat Jan 16 2010 - 00:00

'We were spoiled. Everyone needs days like that, and Ballymun sure needs days like that'

TALKTIME : RON COONEY, Musical director, Ballymun Music Programme

Sat Dec 19 2009 - 00:00

'There are thousands of T-shirt printers. Someone has an idea and they think that'll lead to a clothing label'

TALK TIME: RICHARD DOODY and  FERGAL SWAN. The owners of streetwear label Counter Propaganda recall their early struggles

Sat Dec 12 2009 - 00:00

Talk Time

Phil Chevron, guitarist and songwriter, discusses the trials and tribulations of being in The Pogues

Sat Dec 05 2009 - 00:00

Des Bishop shows us how to save

If you bump into Des Bishop on the street today, you might find yourself cursing under your breath about that bloody ESB bill…

Sat Oct 31 2009 - 00:00

'It would never occur to them that I'm just some eejit with a funny voice and a silly T-shirt'

TALK TIME: MARTIN MALONEY and CHRIS TORDOFF Comedians and 'Hardy Bucks'

Sat Oct 24 2009 - 01:00

Talk Time

Eoin Butler talks to FEARGAL HYNES  Hurler, arts promoter and student

Sat Oct 10 2009 - 01:00

'In Montenegro, I had somebody literally lift me off the wall I was performing on and carry me away'

TALK TIME: Performance artist Amanda Coogan

Sat Sept 26 2009 - 01:00

'Clocks will outlive your kids. That clock in the corner was made in 1710. That's just 20 years after the Battle of the Boyne'

TALK TIME : KEVIN CHELLAR,  Horologist and proprietor of Timepiece Antique Clocks in Dublin

Sat Sept 19 2009 - 01:00

'It's never my goal to give anybody a lesson. I want to make them feel good, to give them a delicious ingredient with which to cook'

TALK TIME: Trish Deseine Writer, TV presenter and tripe connoisseur, originally from Northern Ireland

Sat Sept 05 2009 - 01:00

'My uncle Frank has always been a towering inspiration'

TALK TIME: Sonya Kelly, Actor and Comedian

Sat Aug 08 2009 - 01:00

Talk time

MICK FLANNERY Choice Music Prize nominated singersongwriter, currently touring Ireland

Sat Aug 01 2009 - 01:00

'There were so many activities I wanted to do that I couldn't have done if I was in school'

TALK TIME: ALY MICHALKA American singersongwriter and star of Disney movie ‘BandSlam’

Sat Jul 25 2009 - 01:00

'I was spoilt as a child, standing in the lashing rain in the cathedral car park watching all of these amazing companies perform for free'

TALK TIME: The Galway Arts Festival is only days away now. Exactly how stressed out are you? Very

Sat Jul 11 2009 - 01:00

Binning those stereotypes

TALK TIME: EOIN BUTLER talks to Brian Merriman, Artistic director if the Dublin Gay Theatre Festival.

Sat May 09 2009 - 01:00

Heaven knows I'm miserable now

Morrissey lovers hit Limerick last weekend for an academic conference on the mopey Mancunian’s lyrics, politics and celebrity…

Fri May 01 2009 - 01:00

'I think a recession is the most obvious time to open a restaurant'

TALK TIME: MARCO PIERRE WHITE - the original bad boy chef: kitchen colossus or glorified dinner lady?

Sat Apr 04 2009 - 01:00

"A lot of people play music as a hobby, but we decided that we should go for it. There was just a belief there that we could be the exception, that we could make it"

Up-and-coming Tallaght rock tro, Bipolar Empire, talk success and organic breakfast in LA

Sat Mar 07 2009 - 00:00

Someone to watch over them

The geeks have a new hero. Meet Watchmen director Zack Snyder.

Fri Mar 06 2009 - 00:00

'I took things quite seriously the first time around. Back then, I'd have been really nervous doing an interview like this'

TALK TIME: Ex-Immediate man Connor J. O'Brien returns with a new band, Villagers, and a new EP.

Sat Feb 28 2009 - 00:00

Carol Ní Dhochartaigh and Colin Mac Eoin

Carol Ní Dhochartaigh and Colin Mac Eoin were married at the Star of the Sea Church, Cornboy, Ballina, Co Mayo by Fr Michael …

Sat Feb 21 2009 - 00:00

I've been writing shows that are eventually going to be brought to the Edinburgh Festival and Australia

EOIN BUTLER talks to Neil Delamere, stand-up comedian and captain on 'The Panel'

Sat Feb 21 2009 - 00:00

I've been writing shows that are eventually going to be brought to the Edinburgh Festival and Australia

EOIN BUTLER talks to Neil Delamere, stand-up comedian and captain on 'The Panel'

Sat Feb 21 2009 - 00:00

Jennifer Quinn and Kieran O’Connell

Jennifer Quinn and Kieran O’Connell, both from Limerick, were married recently in Cratloe Church by Fr Liam Enright

Sat Feb 21 2009 - 00:00

Natasha Corcoran and Tony Hourigan

NATASHA CORCORAN and Tony Hourigan were married in Knockavilla Church in Dundrum, Co Tipperary, by Fr Jim Egan on St Valentine…

Sat Feb 21 2009 - 00:00

Jennifer Quinn and Kieran O’Connell

Jennifer Quinn and Kieran O’Connell, both from Limerick, were married recently in Cratloe Church by Fr Liam Enright

Sat Feb 21 2009 - 00:00

Carol Ní Dhochartaigh and Colin Mac Eoin

Carol Ní Dhochartaigh and Colin Mac Eoin were married at the Star of the Sea Church, Cornboy, Ballina, Co Mayo by Fr Michael …

Sat Feb 21 2009 - 00:00

Natasha Corcoran and Tony Hourigan

NATASHA CORCORAN and Tony Hourigan were married in Knockavilla Church in Dundrum, Co Tipperary, by Fr Jim Egan on St Valentine…

Sat Feb 21 2009 - 00:00

Choice script upset by inclusion of . . . The Script

POP-ROCKERS The Script’s eponymous debut album has been shortlisted for the Choice Music Prize announced in Dublin yesterday …

Thu Jan 15 2009 - 00:00

The Script debut album makes Choice shortlist

Pop-rockers The Script’s eponymous debut album has been shortlisted for the Choice Music Prize announced in Dublin today.

Wed Jan 14 2009 - 00:00

TALK TIME

FRANK SHARRY: Irish-American advocate for immigration reform

Sat Oct 25 2008 - 01:00

THE TAYTO YEARS

1980s REVISITED: This week Side Order has been prevailed upon to wax lyrical on the topic "Food Memories of the 1980s"

Sat Oct 18 2008 - 01:00

Talk time

CHARLENE McKENNA Plays the character JoJo in the RTÉ TV drama, 'Raw'.

Sat Sept 27 2008 - 01:00

Up up and away

ADVENTURE: Hold on to your breakfast

Sat Sept 20 2008 - 01:00

Talk Time

Frank Dunphy - Showbiz accountant and manager of artist Damien Hirst

Sat Sept 20 2008 - 01:00

Line-up fails to lift the gloom at Lovebox

RAIN HAS been the story of this Irish summer and the Lovebox music festival at Marlay Park struggled to lift the gloom, though…

Mon Aug 25 2008 - 01:00

Shooters from around the world gunning it out for glory in Esker

CLAY PIGEON SHOOTING: AS THE 2008 Beijing Olympics wind down, another only slightly less hotly anticipated international sports…

Fri Aug 22 2008 - 01:00

No pigeons injured

HOBBY HORSE: You need steady hands and sharp reflexes to shatter these flying saucers

Sat Aug 09 2008 - 01:00

Enduring appeal of pealing bells

LETTERS FROM THE RINGING WORLD: Some churches might cheat with recorded bells, but others still have change ringers to create…

Sat May 17 2008 - 01:00

Shuffle

Eoin Butler 's guide to singles, downloads and free audiostreams

Fri May 09 2008 - 01:00
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