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LIFE Unfiltered – Dr Ray O’Neill and Families

Cait July 28, 2026

Dr Ray O’Neill returns to Life Unfiltered for a conversation about the families we’re born into as well as the ones we go out and build for ourselves and the phrase “Blood is thicker than water, but you can still drown in…

LIFE Unfiltered: Ciaran Casey

Rodrigo July 3, 2026

This week on Life Unfiltered, Maria McHale chatted to executive coach, and author Ciaran Casey to chat about his three decades at the top of Irish business before turning his attention to the lessons he learned about leadership. They talk about what…

LIFE Unfiltered – Sean Adams and Grief

Rodrigo June 26, 2026

This week on Life Unfiltered, Maria McHale was joined by Sean Adams, IACP-accredited psychotherapist at Summit Counselling in Swords. Sean lost his father two years ago after years of illness including throat cancer, a laryngectomy and a spinal injury that left…

LIFE Unfiltered – Dr Ray O’Neill on Pride

Cait June 19, 2026

This week on Life Unfiltered, Maria McHale sits down with psychoanalytic psychotherapist and DCU Assistant Professor Dr Ray O’Neill to take a look at the power of Pride and why we celebrate. They discuss where Pride actually came from and what it…

LIFE Unfiltered – Edgar Kirby

Cait June 12, 2026

Edgar Kirby has a lot of good things going on for him with over 400,000 followers across social media, a successful business and a debut cookbook. His backstory is one that will stop you in your tracks though – he grew up…

Life Unfiltered – Georgia-May Staunton

Cait June 5, 2026

This week, a record 66,911 young people across Ireland sat down to begin their Leaving Cert – the highest number ever to sit the exam and for most of them, and the families watching on, it feels like the moment everything gets…

LIFE Unfiltered – Eoghan O’Connor

Cait May 29, 2026

This week on Life Unfiltered, Maria McHale looks at the power of music and what it actually evokes in us. Music is not just background noise but something powerful that triggers many memories and emotions in us, often in a way almost…

LIFE Unfiltered – Trauma

Cait May 22, 2026

We use the word traumatised all the time now but do we actually know what trauma is or what it does to a person? This week on Life Unfiltered, Maria McHale sat down with psychoanalytic psychotherapist and DCU’s assistant professor of psychotherapy…

LIFE Unfiltered – Judy Moloney

Cait May 8, 2026

This week on Life Unfiltered, Maria McHale sat down with Judy Moloney, psychotherapist, clinical supervisor, and founder of The Boundary Specialist. They discussed why boundaries are so much harder than anyone lets on, what a boundary actually is, why knowing you need…

LIFE Unfiltered – Dr. Edith Eger

Cait May 1, 2026

This week on Life Unfiltered Maria looked at the life of Dr. Edith Eger, Holocaust survivor, psychologist, and author who died during the week aged 98. Eger survived Auschwitz at sixteen, went on to get her PhD in her fifties, and didn’t…

LIFE Unfiltered – Siobhán McCarthy

Cait April 24, 2026

Ireland is the loneliest country in Europe apparently and the people feeling it most are not who you’d expect – they’re in their 20s and 30s, with full lives, full phones and not enough genuine connection to show for either. This week…

LIFE Unfiltered – Dr Ray O’Neill on Alcohol Addiction

Cait April 17, 2026

This week on Life Unfiltered, Maria McHale sat down with DCU’s Assistant Professor of psychotherapy Dr Ray O’Neill to talk about Ireland’s deeply complicated relationship with alcohol – not just the statistics, but the culture underneath. They discussed how addiction so…