When Bono Met Tony: in January, the late Tony Fenton was invited to join Bono and wife Ali at home in Killiney to record an interview with the U2 frontman. The interview was broadcast in a special one-hour show on Bank Holiday Monday. During the interview, Bono pays Tony the compliment of saying that the band are big fans of his and how he is “more consistent than U2”. It was the last interview that Tony recorded. Tony sadly passed away on Thursday 12th March this year. Listen in full here:
Singing sensational superstar Ella Henderson joined the Ian Dempsey Breakfast Show live in studio on Thursday to perform single ‘Yours’ ahead of her support slot with Take That in the 3Arena. She was only one month old when Take That split up in 1996!
Fatboy Slim aka Norman Cook chatted to Neil Delamere - in the hot seat for Anton Savage on Wednesday – about his career to date, living a double life as Norman the dad of two and Hawaiian shirt wearing Fatboy Slim and how there's a sex toy named after him. He’ll be playing at Forbidden Fruit on Friday 29th May:
Gift! With the UK General Election all over the news, Enda, Joan, Willie and Gerry give Ian Dempsey their opinion on what may have happened if they had been voting:
How else would you like to brighten up your afternoon other than listening to Dermot try and say stuff that suits the music? This week there's robots being fired, Kerry Katona hanging out with Lords and Lady's of the Manor and Damien Dempsey*:
Mission success! To Moldova and back again - The Anton Savage Show came to the rescue after Conor Hughes in Dundalk found his Cross Cause mission come to a standstill. Enter volunteer drivers Barry Connolly and Seany Fennelly who made the 10-day round trip there and back again. Anton caught up with all the stories from the trip this morning, from meeting the kids that benefit from delivery of supplies to surviving Barry’s snoring – click here for more details
The Louise Duffy Show is live from the beautiful Kilshane House, Tipperary this afternoon with 4 lucky couples in the running to win their dream wedding worth €25,000! Tune in NOW to find out who will walk away with the incredible prize! *Throws confetti*
Ahead of the release of their latest album 'Drones' on June 5th, Chris Wolstenholme from Muse swung by The Mix-Up to chat to Colm O’Sullivan:
Matt Cooper caught up with actor and celebrity parfumier Richard E. Grant on last week's Friday interview:
Chelsea are Premier League champions with three games to go. Yes, Jose has done it again. Everyone knows that a victory must be followed by a sing-a-long. So with Cesc Fabregas on bongos & Didier Drogba on trumpet, Gift’s Jose channels his inner OMI & makes one of the songs of the year his very own:
Pauline McLynn joined Anton Savage in studio to talk about the Project Arts Centre 50th anniversary celebrations for next year - plus making Gearoid Farrelly nervous, her husbands impression of her and a solemn promise to finally knit Anton some cashmere underwear:
Author Eoin Colfer joined Neil Delamere in studio last Sunday to chat about the inspiration behind Artemis Fowl as well as his work with Laureate na nOg:
German-Nigerian author Jennifer Teege chatted to Anton Savage about a remarkable discovery she had made: she is granddaughter of Amon Goeth, perhaps best known as the character portrayed by Ralph Fiennes in Schindler's List. She spoke about how the discovery affected her, and how writing a book helped her come to terms with the past that she just can't escape:
How many is too many? This week Anton Savage admitted that he has 8,491 unread e-mails on his phone. According to Professor Cary Cooper, sending too many e-mails is unproductive. Here’s why:
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