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LIFE Unfiltered – Orla Diamantino

Cait March 13, 2026

Life Unfiltered this week takes on one of the big issues, the lessons life actually teaches you. You know those lessons that can sometimes turn you upside down – the ones you learn the hard way and the ones nobody warns you…

Life Unfiltered – Paula Pinzon Hernández

Cait March 6, 2026

Life Unfiltered marked the upcoming International Women’s Day on 8th March with a look at women’s lives in Ireland over the last 50 years – where we’ve come from and where we still need to go. Maria took a look at some of…

LIFE Unfiltered – Sex and Intimacy

Cait February 27, 2026

We think we know what sex is. But do we know what intimacy is? Dr Ray O’Neill is assistant professor of psychotherapy at DCU and a psychotherapist at www.machna.ie and he joined Maria to discuss what we get right and wrong about sex…

LIFE Unfiltered – Willpower and Lent

Cait February 20, 2026

Have you ever tried to give something up and found yourself thinking about it every single minute of every single day? That’s your brain working against you and in this episode of Life Unfiltered Maria looked into the real science behind why…

LIFE Unfiltered – Kadam Adam Starr

Cait February 13, 2026

Life Unfiltered is generally about conversations on how to get through life without losing the plot. Some would say that the world’s gone mad, everyone’s stressed, the news is relentless and with Valentine’s Day on Saturday this week Maria was looking at…

LIFE Unfiltered – Dr Ray O’Neill on Love

Cait February 6, 2026

Esther Perel wrote in the New York Times this week that love is not a feeling, she said: “Love is an encounter.” It’s not a checklist or a compatibility score. So when did we stop encountering each other? When did we start…

LIFE Unfiltered – Marcel Lindsay

Cait January 23, 2026

This week on Life Unfiltered Maria McHale talked to Marcel Lindsay – IT professional turned artist, late bloomer and living proof that the best chapter of your life might be one you haven’t started yet! Marcel first picked up a paintbrush at…

LIFE Unfiltered – Summit Counselling

Cait January 16, 2026

What happens when your happy ever after is no long longer happy? When you are married or in a long-term relationship and the life you are living no longer matches the one you thought you were building, it can be devastating on…

Life Unfiltered

Declan McGlade January 2, 2026

Did you know that Quitter’s Day is the second Friday in January, when most people give up their New Year’s goals? As the famous line in Monty Python’s Life of Brian once asked: What have the Romans ever done for us?…

LIFE Unfiltered – Colin Judge

Cait November 28, 2025

On LIFE Unfiltered this week, Maria McHale talked life, limbs and battling against the odds with Irish Paralympian Colin Judge. Born without both legs and part of his right arm, Colin could have let his life become limited or small but instead, he…

Life Unfiltered – Joanne Morgan

Cait November 21, 2025

This week on Life Unfiltered, Maria talked to wellness therapist and practitioner Joanne Morgan about the influence our inner child has on our behaviour, the signals our nervous system gives us, and the early signs of anxiety that often appear before we…

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…

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