Brendan O'Connor

The recent Netflix show, Adolescence, has brought attention to the hidden meaning behind some emojis used by teenagers, so Elaine Burke - host of the For Tech’s Sake podcast – takes Brendan on a whistle-stop tour of some of the emojis with hidden or obscure meanings.

On The Newspaper Panel this week, Brendan is joined by; Mick Clifford, Special Correspondent, the Irish Examiner, Cormac Lucey, Economics Columnist with the Sunday Times, Dr JoAnne Mancini, Associate Professor in the Department of History at Maynooth University and Louise Bayliss, Head of Social Justice and Policy at the Saint Vincent de Paul.

Radio producer and broadcaster Eoin Sweeney, and writer and podcaster Esther O’Moore Donohoe, joined Brendan for our weekly look at the latest TV and film releases.

Playwright, poet and author, Frank McGuinness, brought Brendan through his Life in Five Songs – the music that has shaped him. Frank’s choices included Otis Reading, Joni Mitchell, Lisa O’Neill, and also The Beatles’ I Wanna Hold Your Hand.

TU Baking lecturer Ann Marie Dunne shares tips and recipes for hand pies, pasties and the nation’s favourite handheld pastry, sausage rolls.