Episodes

  • Conor Faughnan's Driving Life: Conor meets Fintan Drury

    Conor Faughnan's Driving Life: Conor meets Fintan Drury
    Jul 13 2025

    Fintan Drury once presented Morning Ireland, set up & then sold Drury Communications, set up a Sports Management company to represent global football & golf stars & brought the Ryder Cup to Ireland. He was also Chairman of Paddy Power and was on the board of Anglo Irish Bank in the run up to their collapse. He's written about that before but his latest book is about the situation in Gaza, called Catastrophe - Nakba II.
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    37 mins
  • Terry Prone

    Terry Prone
    Nov 3 2023
    A household name since her early teens, she has just published her new memoir ‘Caution to the Wind’; an account of her early years becoming one of Ireland’s new young voices, her wonderful but deeply controversial marriage to Tom Savage, a priest in the Ireland of the 70s, and on through their later successes and her own extraordinary career.
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    26 mins
  • Shane Byrne

    Shane Byrne
    Oct 6 2023
    Conor talks to former rugby international Shane Byrne. They chat about his playing days and how he is very much enjoying his current life especially where there’s a bit of craic. They also talk about modern rugby and Ireland’s performance at the rugby world cup.
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    36 mins
  • Paschal Donohoe

    Paschal Donohoe
    Aug 23 2023
    Conor sits down with Minister Donohoe to discuss what brought a northside lad who used to sell nappies by the truck-load to the huge job that he has now at the heart of Irish public life. And of course, what he is proposing to do with the money…
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    44 mins
  • RTÉ's Tommie Gorman

    RTÉ's Tommie Gorman
    Jul 28 2023
    Tommie spent many years as one of our best known and best loved broadcasters. From the West of Ireland he became RTE’s Europe correspondent for 12 years, before spending a long time as Northern Editor. He’s had a great view of history and has been our witness to it. He spent a long time successfully battling cancer but it has never held him back; now’s he’s enjoying life to the full.
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    47 mins
  • Brian Caulfield, TCD

    Brian Caulfield, TCD
    Jul 14 2023
    Professor Brian Caulfield of TCD is a very active academic specialising in Transport and the carbon and climate impacts coming out of it. He’s published multiple papers on the topics, he provided advice to the Citizen’s Assembly on Climate Change and is also on the steering group reviewing the Greater Dublin Transport Strategy. He and Conor have met on the radio a few times but this is a chance for a longer chat.
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    35 mins
  • Neil Briscoe

    Neil Briscoe
    Jun 25 2023
    Conor talks to Neil Briscoe, Irish Times motoring journalist car nut and all round expert, about why cars have got so big, and why car makers are insisting on selling us SUVs. This has cropped up for Conor on the Pat Kenny programme and elsewhere recently so here he takes a more detailed look at an unwelcome trend.
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    27 mins
  • Professor Rose Anne Kenny

    Professor Rose Anne Kenny
    Jun 16 2023
    Driving Life with Conor Faughnan Ep 42: Professor Rose Anne Kenny of the TILDA study, Ireland’s world class Longitudinal Study on Aging. She tells Conor how it works, what its teaching us about life and health as we live longer and hopefully happier.
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    37 mins