Audio Podcasts

Netflix’s new show ‘Unorthodox’ is based on Deborah Feldman’s 2012 memoir, Unorthodox: The Scandalous Rejection of My Hasidic Roots. She speaks to Niall Boylan about her time growing up in a strict Hasidic community in New York.

Niall Boylan spoke to Kathleen who is the mother of two boys killed by their father almost seven years ago. Her former husband Sanjeev Chada, was sentenced to life imprisonment in 2014 after driving his sons, Eoghan and Ruairí, to Co Mayo before strangling them in late July 2013 and […]

Niall spoke to Derek Power. Derek is an active survivor of clerical abuse. He was abused at the age of 7 by Brother Jack Kelly. Derek was on a list to meet the pope but has since taken his name off the list as he says he was not contacted […]

Graham Neary speaks to Niall about Leo Varadkar’s comments claiming there have been less deaths this winter than there has been in the last 5 years.

Under the amendment, passed in the 2004 Citizenship Referendum, children born in Ireland are only entitled to automatic citizenship if at least one of their parents is a citizen or are entitled to be. Niall challenges Ivana and states that any changes in law would be unconstitutional.

On the show Niall has a heated discussion with Jessica Yaniv about the incident which caused outrage in the transgender community. Sadly the debate got too much for Jessica and the conversation ended quite abruptly.

Last August (2020)  Niall had a frank and honest conversation with Beda.M Stadler about the world’s response to the pandemic. Beda is a former Director of the University Institute of Immunology at the Insel Hospital in Bern. 

Thursday, December 5th, 2019 – 38 minutes Senator David Norris dropped into the studio for a chat with Niall this afternoon. The pair spoke about David’s sexuality – growing up as a young gay man in Ireland – running for election and the current political climate. 

The proposed Dying with Dignity Bill needs “significant changes” and does not ensure “adequate safeguards” to protect a person’s right to life the IHREC has warned. Philip Nitschke, director of Exit International and Gail O’Rorke, who was acquitted in 2015 of three counts of assisting in the suicide of her […]