liveline

Dolly Parton spoke to Irish mum Sandra about her daughter’s love of reading Icon Dolly Parton appeared on Liveline on Monday afternoon, yes really, and the singer shared a special moment with an Irish mum. The 77-year-old singer came on the airwaves to chat with Katie Hannon about her connection to Ireland through her philanthropy. Hannon highlighted that Dolly […]

3 years ago

“He threw a towel over her head and ran.” RTE Liveline listeners were left in shock yesterday after a Dublin mum recounted a terrifying ordeal abroad in which her kids were almost abducted. Elaine, and her husband Phil, who were with their two kids aged 10 and 11, had been having a brilliant holiday in Turkey […]

4 years ago

“What is wrong with our young people – and I’m not old Joe, I’m a young woman.” Liveline listeners have been left stunned as a woman said that free contraception is not needed in Ireland as “everybody has an imagination”. Many listeners took to Twitter on Wednesday after the caller added that “we don’t all […]

5 years ago

An 81-year-old Dublin woman has located her birth mother alive after searching for 61 years. Eileen Macken said that she began looking for her mother when she was just 19-year-old, having grown up in Kirwan House orphanage on the North Circular Road. Macken said that she was “the happiest person alive” to discover that her […]

8 years ago

“I was completely mortified as you can imagine.”

9 years ago