Sunday with Miriam

Chat with the coach on the RTÉ tv show 'Ireland's Fittest Family', which returns next week for a new series. She discusses how being a mother impacts her coaching approach, the importance of the GAA club game to local communities and the LGFA/GAA integration discussions currently underwaySee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Chat and live performance from the singer who is steadily making a name for herself. She chats about being from a musical background (both her grandfather and her dad Richie Buckley played sax), her own songwriting, working with producer John Reynolds and the artists that inspire her (For copyright reasons the full tracks performed during this interview cannot be podcast)See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

A wide-ranging chat with the singer, who is getting ready for a nationwide tour with ‘Raised on Songs and Stories’. She chats about the music of her childhood, moving back to Ireland, the loss of family and musician friends like Glen Hansard, her attitude to death and the importance of artistic activismSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

A catch-up with the broadcaster/journalist who spoke to us earlier this year about the devastating effects of her alcohol addiction and beginning a new chapter in life; having addressed an Oireachtas committee about women and addiction, she starts a new column today in the Sunday IndependentSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

The folk legend from Co Down will be honoured with a Lifetime Achievement Award at this year's RTÉ Radio1 Folk Awards . He chats about growing up in a very religiously and socially-divided northern Ireland, touring as The Sands Family, performing in the US, the tragic death of his brother Eugene and playing outside Stormont on the week of the Good Friday Agreement in 1998See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.