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RTÉ Brainstorm — 202 episodes

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Why is Ireland home to so many bogs?

2

The secret history of volcanoes in Ireland

3

All you need to know about the evolution of the spice bag

4

Meet the Bart Simpson of 16th century Ireland

5

Why do some people play their phones out loud on buses and trains?

6

Why did the British Army have an artist with them in Northern Ireland?

7

Are you more likely to get divorced than switch your bank?

8

Dr ChatGPT will see you now: how AI could be bad for your health

9

Jeff Buckley and me: the story of the singer’s 1992 Irish show

10

'Cash is here to stay': why cash is king in emergency planning

11

What is ‘house burping’ – and is it good for your health?

12

Why are pints so pricey in Ireland?

13

What’s really in the air Dubliners breathe?

14

Why a 115kg stone from Waterford is finding a new home in Boston

15

The inside story of Dublin’s blood and guts economy

16

4 tips for reading with babies and toddlers

17

All you need to know about voice spoofing and audio

18

What learning a second language does to your first language

19

Who owns my child’s data?

20

Are you being ripped off by the 'loyalty penalty'?

21

How long will it take for my solar panels to pay for themselves?

22

6 policy changes which could help consumers save money & cut costs

23

Why do some words give us the ick?

24

Why electric cars need to be heard as well as seen

25

Why women are taking to the sheds in Ireland

26

All you ever wanted to know about emergency planning

27

Cad é an scéal leis an nGaeilge?

28

What will Irish towns look like in the future?

29

Where are the future strongholds of Gaelic games?

30

From toys to wars, where will you encounter drones next?

31

Where does the time go?

32

The hospitality crisis: what's happening to Irish restaurants?

33

Are 'quiet redundancies' happening in your workplace?

34

Can I stop drone delivery companies flying over my property?

35

How slogans as Gaeilge have become part of Irish-Gaza protests

36

Why is the Child of Prague statue associated with Irish weddings and weather?

37

Are you stuck in the wrong job? 5 signs it’s time to move on

38

What was on the menu in prehistoric Ireland?

39

Do I have to work when I’m sick?

40

It's 1970 and the Irish army are plotting to invade Northern Ireland

41

Howya lads: how we address and greet others in Ireland

42

How 92 year‑old Richard Morgan became a rowing world champion

43

The colourful story of the Elephant House on Dublin's O'Connell Street

44

The night JFK came to dinner in Dublin

45

Meet George Ryan, the Tipperary Don Quixote in 18th century Peru

46

Is it possible to create a healthy, tasty beer with no alcohol?

47

How RIP.ie became an unlikely Irish cultural phenomenon

48

Why micro-retirement has become a new workplace trend for Gen Z & millennials

49

How bonus points have changed Leaving Cert Maths

50

Here are 10 landmark GAA sites to visit in 2025

51

Why exemptions from studying Irish are an increasing phenomenon

52

How do EVs perform in the real world? Here’s what one Cork driver discovered

53

Why are my bills going up (and up) mid-contract?

54

Do you have a middle-ageing brain?

55

Why money doesn't always motivate employees

56

Why you should be collecting and using rainwater

57

Why do we work?

58

How social media has impacted on young people's mental health

59

All you ever wanted to know about Jupiter

60

Where have all the Patricks gone?

61

How do you create a bike-friendly neighbourhood?

62

What can be done with 11,000 tons of used wind turbine blades?

63

Rain, floods & storms: why weather conditions are getting wetter

64

The story of 3 wild Irish lives

65

How we’re tricked into buying new appliances

66

How the way you walk tells the story of your health

67

The golden age of video games is over

68

5 things our deposit return scheme can learn from other countries

69

Where did all the historical Irish weather data go?

70

How competitive is the Irish broadband market?

71

Do you work with a psychopath? Here's how to know

72

'Ireland's gate to hell': a Co Roscommon cave and the Otherworld

73

Tornadoes in Ireland: yes, we get them and here's how many

74

From Germany to the US, the countries who plotted to invade Ireland

75

Meet Anne O'Brien, the legendary soccer star from Inchicore

76

Why we need a new bidding process for buying homes in Ireland

77

Here's the real cost of your morning rush hour commute in Dublin

78

Why do some people have no sense of direction?

79

A step by step guide to how one Cork homeowner cut his energy costs

80

Why doctors and nurses should use more plain language and less jargon

81

How Irishman William Howard Russell invented modern war reporting

82

5 reasons why it’s so difficult to get a divorce in Ireland

83

Wreckers and levellers: evicting Ireland's poor during the Great Famine

84

The successful 'back to basics' approach of farming in The Burren

85

Why Irish field names and local placenames need to be recorded

86

All you ever wanted to know about shipping containers

87

How the Marino estate transformed Dublin housing 100 years ago

88

How coffee badging became a new workplace trend

89

Meet Lena Rice, the only Irish woman to ever triumph at Wimbledon

90

How vaping has an unhealthy impact on indoor air quality

91

The story behind Croke Park's rodeo extravaganza in 1924

92

The story of the secret theatre buried under Dublin’s Busáras

93

'Face the flag': the complicated history of the national anthem and Gaelic games

94

How much does it really cost to build a new house in Ireland?

95

Why do people talk so much at gigs and concerts?

96

When Ireland said no to nuclear power in Co Wexford

97

Wizard wanted: why job ads use such bizarre terms and descriptions

98

Why class in the workplace remains a taboo subject in Ireland

99

Why we keep comparing politicians to Hitler and why we need to stop

100

How a new app could show you green travel routes through Dublin

101

Why do breathing techniques stop panic attacks?

102

3 misunderstandings about money that cost a lot in the long run

103

How a kiss in public in DeValera’s Ireland caused a global sensation

104

How remote working has changed how we learn on the job

105

Why are teens half as likely to walk or cycle to school in Dublin as Dunshaughlin?

106

Why do you have so many unread emails?

107

Who was Kathleen Lynn? The diaries of a radical Irish woman

108

Dia dhuit: what's behind Irish language's religious roots?

109

5 tips to save money on your heating this winter

110

Is Government policy leading to longer commutes and urban sprawl?

111

'A good send-off': why food plays a major role in Irish wakes and funerals

112

How Irish dance became a significant business for Irish women

113

How did the marriage bar affect Irish women?

114

Why so many of us will run up that hill with Kate Bush

115

What Ireland ate and drank during the Second World War

116

Under Clery's clock: the history and legacy of the landmark Dublin store

117

What's going to happen to used electric car batteries?

118

Why is society so surprised by older people having sex?

119

Why we turned a Dublin street into a playground

120

Ráiméis! Here are 15 slang words as Gaeilge to use this week

121

Do you work in a toxic workplace? Here what you can do about it

122

A short history of the Irish coffee

123

Why are Irish gig tickets so expensive?

124

Taylor Swift's songs are full of literary references - so what do they tell us?

125

What goes on at the Workplace Relations Commission?

126

Why Irish people sing 'Ole Ole Ole' when they're happy

127

How Michael Collins became the Irish revolution's sex symbol

128

How do you clean a wind turbine blade?

129

The growing world of nixers, passion projects and side hustles

130

‘He proposed to me on our first date’: my experience of Irish culture shock

131

Because they're worth it: medieval hair treatments

132

A Croke Park murder mystery: who shot Séan Ó Glaimín?

133

Why banks need to maintain cash services for customers

134

Meet the 5 worst boyfriends in fiction

135

Radio GAA GAA: the Irish abroad and Gaelic games on the radio

136

Why Irish people love making connections when we meet strangers

137

A short history of the many plans to reclaim land from Dublin Bay

138

Help, my child is now a teenager – what do I do?

139

How many friends do you need?

140

Will we see 'robot judges' in Irish courtrooms in the future?

141

Why the trench coat became the garment of choice for IRA fighters

142

Why Ireland sought to stop US airlines landing at Dublin Airport in the 1960s

143

How listening to music at lunch increases your afternoon productivity

144

5 things women should know before starting a business

145

The man from Co Meath who had at least 10 funerals

146

4 ways to make public transport easy to use and safe for all

147

How much does your job title matter?

148

'Ah sure, you know yourself': why Irish people never say what they mean

149

All you need to know about putting solar panels on your roof

150

Why referees are quitting Gaelic games

151

How to save money on your household bills with simple maths

152

How to fall in love with strangers

153

Could super-villains use your smart kettle to disrupt the power grid?

154

5 things you didn't know about Fionn Mac Cumhaill

155

Why It’s A Wonderful Life still resonates today (repeat)

156

Why women prefer male bosses

157

How we unearthed a medieval town in Co Kilkenny

158

How surfing can improve your mental health

159

Will a latte levy stop us dumping 200 million coffee cups a year?

160

Is it time for a woolly jumper revival?

161

All you need to know about bank holidays in Ireland

162

Why workers don’t like their HR departments

163

A history of the GAA in 100 objects (Special)

164

Where did the term ‘west Brit’ come from?

165

How to save cash on your energy bills

166

Why sea levels are rising higher than expected in Dublin and Cork

167

How the Civil War split an Irish republican family in two (repeat)

168

You're not singing any more: where do soccer chants come from?

169

All you need to know about how heat pumps work

170

Can I delete myself from the internet?

171

The good and bad news about workplace gossip

172

What First Dates tells us about dating in Ireland

173

What can you do with used wind turbine blades?

174

10 commemoration ideas you won't forget in a hurry

175

Why are legal costs in Ireland so high?

176

The life and times of Dublin’s first O’Connell Bridge

177

Why the reign of SUVs on Irish roads should end

178

The summer Garth Brooks didn't come to town (repeat)

179

What happens to the waste that goes down the drain in your home (repeat)

180

The groundbreaking Irish woman golfer you’ve never heard of before

181

What Leopold Bloom's food diary tells us about Bloomsday

182

Why it's time to make room on the road for electric scooters (repeat)

183

My boss is a psychopath: why bad people get good jobs (repeat)

184

Where does the phrase ‘taking the soup’ come from?

185

The story behind John Lavery’s controversial painting of Roger Casement in the dock

186

How architect Herbert Simms transformed Dublin

187

The spy who came to lunch: Ireland and Russia during the Cold War

188

How to eat and exercise your way to healthy ageing

189

How the Irish helped to create Easter Sunday

190

Is it really bonkers to use an algorithm to hire a person?

191

The problem with having a difficult name in Ireland

192

How the Civil War split an Irish republican family in two

193

CSI St Patrick: just where is the saint's body?

194

From Elvis to the Muppets, the story of Danny Boy

195

How roots of Riverdance can be found in Kerry

196

The Great Resignation: why are so many people leaving their jobs?

197

How much water should I drink daily?

198

How can we enjoy a tasty, fatty meal without weight gain?

199

How to build a new town in Ireland

200

Who do some ads follow me around online?

201

Why some runners get injured - and how to stop it happening

202

Just how do reindeers fly Santa’s sleigh around the world?