Maria McHale – Near FM

LIFE Unfiltered – Dr Ray O’Neill

Cait November 14, 2025

This week Maria and her guest Dr Ray O’Neill discuss the subject of trans generational trauma. It turns out we all inherit more than our eye colour or our laugh. We inherit silence, fear, and sometimes pain that doesn’t belong to us…

LIFE Unfiltered – Sean Adams

Cait October 31, 2025

As Movember starts, you’ll notice more moustaches around and it’s not just for style, it’s about visibility. Maria was joined on Life Unfiltered by Sean Adams from Summit Counselling in Swords to discuss Movember and the masks men (and all of us)…

LIFE Unfiltered – Emma Clark Conway and Brigid Quigley O’Brien

Cait October 24, 2025

It’s World Polio Day and Life Unfiltered marked the day to remind us that polio may be eradicated globally, but its impact is not. Emma Clark Conway, Operations Manager at Polio Survivors Ireland, the charity dedicated to supporting, advocating for, and empowering Irish polio survivors joined Maria…

LIFE Unfiltered – Dr Ray O’Neill

Cait October 17, 2025

On LIFE Unfiltered this week, Maria talks about a subject that’s as charged as it is misunderstood, masculinity. Recently U.S. Chief of Protocol Monica Crowley declared that America has entered an “era of real masculinity” under Donald Trump – an era of…

LIFE Unfiltered – Teena Gates

Cait October 10, 2025

For more than 30 years, Teena Gates has been a familiar voice and face in Irish media – a journalist, broadcaster and storyteller who has never shied away from sharing her truth. But behind the headlines and microphones lies an extraordinary personal…

LIFE Unfiltered – Gender

Jaye September 26, 2025

Gender is more complex, more fluid and much more like a spectrum. For some people, their sense of gender shifts or fluctuates, and for many, it doesn’t fit neatly into boxes at all. At the heart of this is identity, how we…

LIFE Unfiltered – Anne Marie Allen

Jaye September 19, 2025

This week on Life Unfiltered, Maria McHale talks to Anne Marie Allen, an executive coach and founder of AMA Coaching Solutions. But Anne Marie has another story; when she was fifteen she was accepted onto a cookery school course that promised real…

Love Unfiltered – The Best Bits

Jaye September 6, 2025

The 25th episode of Love Unfiltered makes way for next week’s Life Unfiltered. Listen again as Maria McHale looked back at some of the most powerful lessons from the wonderful experts who’ve joined the show. From learning not to make assumptions, to…

Love Unfiltered – Nature or Nurture?

Jaye August 29, 2025

On this episode of Love Unfiltered, Maria McHale is joined by Katie McKenna, an accredited psychotherapist, co-author of the International bestseller “You’re Not The Problem”, the instant Sunday Times bestseller and host of “Beyond Survival – The Therapy Podcast”. They discussed the…

Love Unfiltered – Human/AI Relationships

Jaye August 22, 2025

In this episode of Love Unfiltered, Maria McHale speaks with Fiona O’Malley, CEO of Turn2Me.ie, about new research which finds that one in ten people in Ireland have had a romance with an AI chatbot in the past year. They discuss why…

Love Unfiltered – Soulmates

Jaye August 15, 2025

Love Unfiltered turns the spotlight on soulmates. A lot of us grew up reading Wuthering Heights and Pride and Prejudice, two novels that, let’s be honest, made emotionally avoidant men seem impossibly sexy. All that brooding and mystery… it felt like love and a…

Love Unfiltered – Listener Stories

Jaye August 8, 2025

We’re used to seeing love stories in movies, in which two people typically meet, fall in love, experience some extenuating circumstances that make them fall apart, and then come to a resolution that helps them live happily ever after. Real life may…