Podcast

On this episode, Niall reads a powerful email from a listener who says she feels completely torn about the future of her marriage.

The woman explains that before they got married her husband admitted he once had a gambling problem but promised he had stopped. Ten years later, while planning a family holiday, he told her he was short of money despite earning a good salary. Curious, she checked his phone while he was asleep and discovered that he had spent more than €600 on online gambling in just one month.

On this episode of The Niall Boylan Podcast, Niall speaks with journalist and founder of the The Iona Institute, David Quinn, about a surprising new report commissioned by the Irish Catholic Bishops’ Conference which suggests Ireland is still more religious than many people might think.

Niall tackles a major and increasingly heated global debate: our role as consumers and whether we should stop buying ultra-cheap products to help protect the environment and human rights.

From the massive environmental damage caused by single-use plastics to the explosion of ultra-fast fashion and rock-bottom goods from online marketplaces, this episode digs into whether cheap really is too costly. Governments around Europe are already proposing taxes and new laws to curb fast fashion and make companies account for their environmental harm. France’s parliament has moved to regulate and even ban certain ultra-fast fashion marketing and impose eco-scores and fees on low-sustainability products.

Niall sits down with social commentator Paul Treyvaud to unpack one of the most talked-about political debates in Ireland right now: Should President Donald Trump be given a full Irish welcome — including official engagements with the Oireachtas — when he visits later this year?

With energy bills on the rise again and households feeling the squeeze, Niall opens the phone lines to hear from listeners on a burning issue: who should get help? Recent statistics show energy costs continue to climb — thousands of households are now in arrears on electricity and gas bills, with people struggling to keep up as prices stay high after years of global volatility in oil and gas markets. Almost 320,000 people in Ireland were behind on energy bills last winter, and calls are growing for stronger action from Government.

Join Niall as he delves into a thought-provoking conversation with social commentator Karl Deeter in this week’s episode of “The Open Mic.” They tackle a pressing issue: the recent research revealing that it would cost approximately €60,112 annually to hire someone to perform the myriad tasks of a stay-at-home parent.

In this explosive episode, Niall speaks with UK security expert Will Geddes about the dramatic escalation in the Middle East. Following direct US action targeting military installations linked to Iran — and reports that tensions now involve threats around Ali Khamenei — the region stands on a knife edge. Retaliatory strikes have reportedly hit civilian areas, and fears are growing of a much wider conflict drawing in global powers, including the United States and Iran.

A candidate for the Green Party in Dublin Central, Janet Horner, recently suggested that the Dáil Éireann needs fewer “confrontational hard men” and more women “working collaboratively.”

In this episode, Niall speaks to education commentator Jana Lundan about the upcoming Convention on Education and the National Conversation on Education, a major initiative that will help shape the future of Ireland’s school system.