Will Coleman is a viral chef who shares delicious, easy-to-make recipes online. It turns out, that means he's the perfect person for giving us tips on doing the food shop! He's come up with a way to make healthy meals without needing to spend ages meal-planning and without the risk of buying more than you can use. To hear all about it, hit the play button on this page! You can find Will on TikTok and Instagram ....
Jake Carter isn't just a pop music star - he's also a coffee buff! Seeing as he's been to so many places around the country, we had to find out his top five coffee shop recommendations. Plus Alison and Jake chat about their first time meeting at a Strictly Come Dancing event - and who's the meaner judge. For the full chat, hit the play button on this page!
Two of the biggest podcasters of the moment, Kevin and PJ from I'm Grand Mam caught up with Alison Curtis on Weekend Breakfast. The pair are gearing up for an Irish tour that's sold out half its venues so far, so we found out how they're feeling about it and why their Cork accents seems to be a draw for listeners. Plus, what are the funny things their Mams do? To find out, hit the play button on this page!
Marie uses her lived experience to help those experiencing homelessness. Now Marie works for Focus Ireland. We're all in for the Big Busk for Focus Ireland to help end homelessness in Ireland, are you? Find out more at TodayFM.com/Busk
Ricky describes Liverpool as Ireland’s second capital! And his love of the Emerald Isle started decades ago when he met all the Irish ex-pats on the building sites. Since then he has considered it his second home. He played Bobby Grant in Brookside, and DCI Charlie Wise in Cracker but he is best known as the lovable and lewd Jim Royle in The Royle Family - Actor, Writer and activist and most importantly – a very very proud Liverpudlian. Ricky had a Sunday sit-down with Alison Curtis and talked a...
He is the Tom Crean of cycling. A Kerryman with adventure on his mind. Tomas Mac an t-Saoir has travelled through the USA, Africa, Australia, New Zealand, Southeast Asia, Central Asia and the Middle East – and he is just back from touring from India through Pakistan, Iran, and Afghanistan. And ALL of it on two wheels! He is the The Kerryman cycling the globe. In total he has clocked up an astounding 35,000+ km plus. He tells Alison Curtis about his excellent adventures, including the joys and da...
Ryan ‘Brickman’ McNaught is one of the world’s leading LEGO® brick artists. He is one of only twenty-one LEGO® certified professionals globally. Like a Jedi Knight of all things brick related! He is known to many this side of the world as judge of Channel Four's LEGO® Masters Australia The exhibition is inspired by his bestselling book ‘The Bricktionary: The Ultimate LEGO® A-Z’, and the exhibition. The immersive exhibition developed by Ryan and The Brickman team features over 150 models, made fr...
Alisha Weir has been in Matilda, Wicked Little Letters and now Abigail – and she's only 14! It wasn't Alison's first time chatting with Alisha, so the pair caught up on how the last two years have been going for her and whether the films are affecting her school life. Alisha shared how she handled the news that she was in Matilda with her school mates and Alison had to find out, was Alisha even allowed to watch Wicked Little Letters? Plus, what's it like becoming a vampire ballerina for Abigail?...
National Treasure and Irish acting legend Brendan Gleeson on Weekend Breakfast. Alison has not hidden the fact that Brendan is one of her absolute heroes. She spoke to him about his brand-new documentary, ‘Brendan Gleeson's Farewell to Hughes’ and why he felt it was so important to record this period in his life and what trad music and a creative space is so important to humanity and Irish people in particular. He is a proud fiddle and mandolin player. Brendan also revealed his thoughts on the c...
Laura de Barra is a Cork-born property portfolio developer and illustrator working in the competitive London rental market. Her first book, 'Gaff Goddess', was a No.1 bestseller. Now she has turned her hand to clothing. She reveals all the helpful hacks and advice from things to consider before we buy an item of clothing, changing room cheats, trying to buy sustainably and on a budget, parental clothing tips and loads more Her new book is 'Garment Goddess' - Buy well, mend well, wear well, life ...
Former model and Mother of 3 Award winning content creator Sunday Times bestselling author, campaigner - Louise Boyce is better known online as Mamasstillgotit_ She pivoted from plus size positive modelling to comedy content creator during Covid and never looked back. On Instagram she has built up a following of over 500k and on Tik Tok nearly 400k Followers and 6.5M Likes. Her campaign called 'Push It Out' exposed how the fashion industry didn't play fair when selling maternity wear. (later whe...
Billy Dee Williams was born and raised in New York City. He has starred in forty movies, seven Broadway plays, and has made more than forty television shows and tv movies combined! In a Galaxy far, far away … okay maybe just L.A. over Zoom! Alison Curtis spoke to this living legend on the show --- He is best known as outlandishly handsome rogue Lando Calrissian on Return Of the Jedi and The Empire Strikes Back but he has had an INCREDIBLE career over SIX decades! He told Weekend Breakfast how he...
Seven studio albums with Wet Wet Wet. Twelve solo albums. Millions sold. He has starred on Broadway and the West End. "Love Is All Around" reached number one in 1994 It then remained there for 15 weeks! Throughout its chart run, some radio stations banned the song, as many listeners were fed up of hearing it for so long. Apparently - The band themselves eventually took the decision to delete the record from sale. However, it didn’t make it to number one in Ireland … and guess what kept it off th...
Ryan O'Sullivan is 30 and is a Culinary Studies graduate of MTU (Munster Technological University) He is originally from Gurranabraher in Cork City He had previously worked in the Maryborough and River Lee hotels in Cork city before relocating to the US to further his career, landing a job at the Mirasol County Club in Florida in 2018. He fought off 17 other highly talented chefs to take the top prize of $250,000 and a head chef role in Gordon Ramsay's famous Hell's Kitchen Las Vegas restaurant....
A young Cork entrepreneur who first started with bringing his homemade energy balls to college lectures has signed a contract worth €1 million with supermarket chain ALDI. Matthew Collins is from Ballydesmond in Cork and he founded The Sibly Food Co. in 2018. After years of making product for friends, then selling at markets he recently has signed a 12 month contract to supply ALDI’s 161 Irish stores with its popular Energy Balls product. He started making his own homemade energy balls and bring...
Spring has nearly sprung and we are looking to emerge from hibernation and looking for things that we can do with the kids that don’t involve screens!! Lilly Higgins is a TV chef, a crafting genius and a Mum to 3 kids - she shares her best tips for keeping them off screens and doing achievable activities that will empower them and also are loads of fun. Some suggestions by Lilly include: Toad Stool Centrepiece Jewellery Tree Tie-dye tees All are available in her book ‘The Homemade Year’ by Lilly...
One of our very favourite people in TodayFM and ever joined Alison Curtis for a chat! Paula is usually heard Sunday to Thursday evenings from 7 on TodayFM. She joined Alison to chat wardrobes and why 'dopamine dressing' is so important especially this time of year.
Holiday prices are rising but that doesn’t seem to be stopping us booking holidays at home or abroad. A survey of Irish holidaymakers found over 43% are planning to take three or more holidays in 2024. Whilst over 60% of claim that rising living costs will impact their travel plans, fewer than 2% say they will not travel at all. Irish Independent, Travel Editor - Pol O Conghaile joined us to talk about Ireland's obsession and need for breaks no matter how big or small - home and abroad. He tells...
Matty Edgell's life changed the minute he was crowned Great British Bake Off Winner 2023. Although he gained instant fame after winning one of Telly's biggest shows he has remained grounded and as normal as he can. He is 28 and works as a P.E. and Science teacher in Peterborough, UK and is one of the nicest, genuine people we have interviewed on the show. When the first episode of the series was aired on Channel 4, Matty had to apologise to his friends who were only just finding out “his best ke...
She has been described as the Irish Stacey Solomon! And she has even worked with Stacey's team from 'Sort Your Life Out' and trained under Dilly Carter from the show! However, the Stacey similarities don't stop there; as Hazel admits herself she is the head off the English presenter who is one of her heroes. Hazel from 'The Home Reset' joined us last year and we got such a good reaction to our chat and follow up podcast that we thought with it being January and all, it is a great time to have he...
Arthur Gourounlian is one of The Holy Trinity of judges on Dancing With The Stars! And we LOVE HIM! AG joined us again for a fab bubbly chat to talk the first week of DWTS, who has really impressed him, who surprised him (clue: he spent his career riding and now he has to keep up his form!) and the rest of the goss! Arthur also reveals his dance lessons with husband Brian! Plus, loads more.
The days are colder, but this news really warmed our hearts. One of our favourite shows The Great Pottery Throwdown starts again on Channel 4. 12 potters, 10 weeks of passion, creativity, imagination, humour and maybe even some tears! Friend of the show Keith Brymer-Jones is the head judge on this fabulous show and he spoke to Alison about being back with his BFFs Siobhan and Rich, his brand new tour, his love for the show and the contestants, being friends with a young Shane MacGowan, the new C...
January is not the easiest time of the year. All the build-up in December is released and we have to restart again! The weather is cold and it can be a bit bleak – we are the equivalent of a squeezed tea bag perched on the edge of a sink – So, what better way to lift our spirits than to grab a cup of tea and a blankie - put our feet up an watch some quality uplifting, inspiring happy television. Producer Lenny is here with his Telly picks for January. Here is his list in full: Dancing With The S...
From how to make the best roasties to an insight into his own plans, Neven Maguire is full of tips and ideas for making the Christmas dinner! To hear the full chat, press the play button on this page.
The final episodes of The Crown are coming out this week on Netflix. How have Dominic West and Olivia Williams found playing Charles and Camila? Well, Alison Curtis finds out – and Dominic tells her about all of his Irish connections!
Jenny Kelly and Mairéad Ronan from the 'Jenny & Mairéad Now' have been doing the podcast for almost a year now, and joined Alison to chat all about it! They also went into what they're looking forward to this Christmas and chatted about their time at TodayFM. For the full chat, press the play button on this page.
'So This Is Christmas' is the new Irish documentary following five people in an Irish village and looking at their relationship with Christmas. Director Ken Wardrop joined us to chat all about it and how he found Christmas growing up. For the full chat, press the play button on this page.
There are tons of options out there for buying bits for around the house, and Orla Neligan joined us to tell us which would make great gifts for Christmas. Plus, they're all Irish! For the full chat, press the play button on this page.
Sometimes, you want to get someone in your life a present that's very thoughtful but you've no idea where to start. Well if they're a foodie, Katy McGuinness has got it sorted for us! For the full chat, press the play button on this page.
Have you ever wanted to cuddle a cow? Fiona Wilson at Dumble Farm in the UK realised her cows were so friendly and affectionate, that she decided to try offering cow cuddling sessions! Click here to visit Dumble Farm's website . For the full chat, press the play button on this page.
