Brendan O'Connor

Brendan’s guest for My Life in Five Songs this week is astronaut, pilot, and author Chris Hadfield, whose music choices included Christy Moore, Brandi Carlisle, Neil Young, The Kingston Trio, and Elton John.

Film Critic for the Business Post John Maguire and Entertainment Journalist and Broadcaster Sarina Bellissimo give Brendan their recommendations for the best T.V. and films to watch for the week ahead.

Joining Brendan to dissect the Sunday papers are Jennifer Bray, Political Editor, Sunday Times, Peter Brown, Managing Director of Baggot Investment Partners, Gary Murphy, Professor of Politics at DCU and Shana Cohen, Executive Director of TASC.

In the week when the Court of Appeal upheld an eight-year prison sentence for Shane Noonan, for the 2013 rape of his work colleague, Ciara Mangan, Ciara speaks to Brendan. Ciara talked through how the rape unfolded, its aftermath, and her long journey through the criminal justice system. Today, Ciara runs an organisation called Beyond Surviving.

What IS personality? Are you born with your personality or is it shaped by experience? Can we change our personalities? Dr Katriona O’Sullivan, from Maynooth University’s Psychology Department, takes Brendan on a whistlestop tour of some of the thinking behind personality, and some of the main models.