Sure 'Twas Better

Will Hanafin and his guests Pauline McLynn, Jules Coll and Emer McLysaght trawl the RTÉ radio archive to ask if life really was better in the old days?

New Years 2024 Special

Will Hanafin and his panel ring in the new year by looking at 80 years of festive coverage in RTE's archives.

12-30
52:29

Christmas Day 2024 Special

Will Hanafin and his panel celebrate Christmas by looking at 80 years of festive coverage in RTE's archives...

12-25
58:16

Toilet Roll Sponsorships and Double Passports!

Will Hanafin trawls through eight decades of the RTE archives in the entertaining company of panellists Pauline McLynn, Jules Coll and Emer McLysaght

07-24
52:02

From Brendan behan's jungle juice to massage parlour mistaken identity!

Will Hanafin trawls through eight decades of the RTE archives in the entertaining company of panellists Pauline McLynn, Jules Coll and Emer McLysaght

07-17
50:03

Riveting 1960s radio soaps, and giving hope to women in their late 30s!

Will Hanafin presents a new series trawling through 80 years of RTE's archives taking in everything from the cut-throat world of sixties competitive fish cooking to a bolshy Bono thrashing his own tapes! With panellists Pauline McLynn, Jules Coll and Emer McLysaght.

07-10
51:02

A bolshy Bono to 60s competitive fish cooking

Will Hanafin presents a new series trawling through 80 years of RTE's archives taking in everything from the cut-throat world of sixties competitive fish cooking to a bolshy Bono thrashing his own tapes! With panellists Pauline McLynn, Jules Coll and Emer McLysaght.

07-03
50:30

December 31st 2023

Will Hanafin and his panel ring in the new year by looking at 80 years of festive coverage in RTE's archives...

12-31
53:41

25th December 2023

Will Hanafin and his panel take a fun filled seasonal trawl through 80 years of Christmas coverage in RTE's archives...

12-25
56:39

5th September 2023

Will Hanafin presents another fun filled trawl through 80 years of RTE's archives with Pauline McLynn, Jules Coll and Emer McLysaght. Taking in everything from unhappy hippos to out of sorts kangaroos!

09-05
52:07

29th August 2023

Will Hanafin trawls RTÉ's archives from the past 80 years in the entertaining company of Pauline McLynn, Jules Coll and Emer McLysaght. Taking in everything from spear fishing for eels in Wexford to the dangers of pineapple themed monuments!

08-29
50:15

22nd August 2023

Will Hanafin and his guests trawl the RTE radio archive to ask if life really was better in the old days?

08-22
52:37

Condomania in the Virgin Megastore | Sure 'Twas Better

Ireland in the eighties with mysterious North Koreans checking out our Border... condomania in the Virgin Megastore...and Gollywogs get the boot...

09-18
53:57

Bodybuilders banned by the Bishop of Limerick | Sure 'Twas Better

Bodybuilders banned by the Bishop of Limerick and 80's Ireland discovers the kebab.. in Sure 'Twas Better in the 80s!

09-11
53:15

Bodybuilders banned by the Bishop of Limerick | Sure 'Twas Better

Bodybuilders banned by the Bishop of Limerick and 80's Ireland discovers the kebab.. in Sure 'Twas Better in the 80s!

09-11
53:23

Soft porn videos on MTUSA... and more | Sure 'Twas Better

The perils of Yugoslavian nudist camps for Irish people and soft porn videos on MTUSA getting clergy hot under the collar with Will Hanafin and panel Pauline McLynn, Emer McLysaght and Jules Coll.

09-04
54:42

Lovelorn 1980's Irish teenagers... and more | Sure 'Twas Better

We take a look back at some awful general election songs, an ultra serious budgie competition and explore the problems of lovelorn teens. And Will Hanafin tracks down some of the people who made the news back then and haven’t been heard from since!

08-28
54:31

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