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Chapter 1: What is the big story of the day regarding the weather?
No getting away from it. The weather's the big story of the day today. So let's see if we can get Alan O'Reilly from Carlow Weather on the phone for a chat about the weather. We do love talking about the weather.
Hello.
Hello, Alan.
How are we doing?
Good, good. I was just saying there the big story of the day is the weather. It is indeed. So they're saying it's going to break 30 by Thursday.
I think it'll break it by tomorrow, to be honest.
Right. So there's a high pressure over most of Europe, is it? Is that it?
Yes, there's a high pressure over most of Europe, but there's a low pressure out to the west of it, which is steering up this very warm air. And it's been over kind of Spain, Portugal and France. And then it's going to edge towards us and just over us for a couple of days.
OK, but the big temperature is going to be on Thursday. So what are we looking at today, tomorrow, then on Wednesday?
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Chapter 2: How are high temperatures affecting Ireland this week?
Well, we will see temperatures get up to 27 maybe degrees today. Now, there is a bit of cloud around this morning and temperatures are a little bit lower, but the sun will break through later this afternoon and temperatures could hit 26, 27 degrees today. Then Tuesday, we're looking at probably 30, maybe even 31 degrees with a lot of sunshine.
Wednesday, probably 27 degrees, a little bit of cloud maybe around Thursday. And then Thursday likely to be the hottest day where we could see 31, 32, maybe even 33 degrees on Thursday.
And what about nighttime temperatures, Alan?
Yeah, some sticky and heavy nights, you know, especially probably Wednesday night, probably the hottest. But even really, really from tonight, they're going to get warmer and warmer Tuesday night and Wednesday night and even Thursday night are going to be probably 19, 18, 19 degrees. It may not drop below 19 degrees on Wednesday night.
We're not built for that. Where are the temperatures when it comes to averages for this time of the year?
Yeah, this will be well above our average, well above our average. You're talking about, you know, maybe seven, eight, nine degrees above average. So certainly unusual. I mean, we would get hot spells and obviously the record 33.3 degrees dates back to the 1880s is in June. But, you know, rare enough that we would see these type of temperatures.
And of course, we're getting high temperatures over a number of days where we probably didn't get them in the past. Is that the case?
Yeah, I mean, a heatwave in Ireland is five days over 25 degrees, which is why technically they're quite rare. A lot of people call a heatwave when it's not actually technically a heatwave.
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Chapter 3: What is the definition of a tropical night?
Now, we may not actually technically get a heatwave because Friday we may see temperatures drop back below 25 degrees. But still, to get a couple of days where the temperatures are over 30 degrees and the nights may be very close to 20 degrees is unusual in Ireland.
And the other label that we heard a couple of years ago was tropical. What's the definition of that?
Yeah, tropical night is where temperatures don't drop below 20 degrees. And we have had a few of those at Valencia in Kerry. And we could see a tropical night, which is really where, you know, things really start to get annoying and people kicking off the blankets and the fans start to come out, you know.
All of this, Alan, and you've been watching it for years now, and you've obviously been following climate change as well. So it comes, it's bittersweet, isn't it? Because we don't get much weather. But now when we get the weather, we probably all know in our heart of hearts that it's because of climate change.
Yeah, I mean, it is bittersweet, as you said, because we've had a lot of rain and we've had temperatures cooler, you know, for a lot of May and even for the start of June. And, you know, people want some good summer weather. But the problem is, is that it's tainted by the fact that climate change is bringing those temperatures that's a little bit higher. And we know...
that, you know, the more extreme that we get, you know, it is more climate change. I mean, in some ways, Ray, we're very lucky to be in Ireland, you know, because we don't get the same extremes. Like even, it looks like we could hit 39, 34, 40 degrees in parts of England this week, you know, which is very unusual.
And it is climate change, but you do have to, you know, if you just kind of, I suppose, take the few fine days that we get when we get them and then start climate change. Yeah, people start saying, can you not just have a bit of weather and enjoy it?
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Chapter 4: How does climate change influence weather patterns?
But I'm interested to know what people say to you, Alan, because you are who you are. You're Carlo Weather, you're Alan O'Reilly. And I would imagine, despite your best efforts, most conversations come around to or start with the weather. So what do people say to you about climate change?
Yeah, it's an interesting one because a lot of people, you know, will be very much aware of it, but they're kind of saying, look, can we not just enjoy a few fine days and then we'll worry about that next week? And I think to be fair, you know, a lot of people see, you know, the climate change more as the bad impacts as in terms of, you know,
for storms and flooding and that when they see warm weather they talk about summers in the 90s because we all have this tainted history in our heads that we used to get like 30 degrees every day when we were when we were teenagers in the 90s you know but obviously that's not the facts show that you know we are seeing more extreme temperatures we've hit a couple of records already this year was carlo uh the owner of one of those records or was that broken immediately
Well, you know, Cara was briefly a record holder for May. And Cara did break its own record for May. But no, there was a few spots that broke the May record. Actually, a number, a large number of weather stations broke their all-time May record.
And I think we probably could see the risk of some weather stations, maybe not the overall 33.3, but certainly some weather stations are likely to break records again. And like if you look at France, over 100 weather stations have already broken their June record in France. Right.
So the record stands from about 150 years ago, you're saying? About 130 years ago?
Yeah, in the 1880s from Kilkenny. Yeah. And I mean, we did get up to, you know, we have seen 32 Degrees 2022, I think was the last time we got very close to the record. So we, you know, and that's one of the things as well that, you know, while, you know, some very old kind of record stand, if you look at the majority of records that have been broken, they've been broken in the last 20 years.
Yeah. Yeah. Anyway, just be careful out there. Make sure you have your sunscreen on. Make sure you're hydrated and be careful around water. I'm saying that to you, Alan, and to everybody else. Listen, thanks for taking our call. That's Alan O'Reilly from Carlo Edda. Thanks, Alan. Take care. Good luck. I don't know what to say, to be honest about the weather.
I'm enjoying it and then I'm not enjoying it and then I'm enjoying it again. And as we've said to Alan there, we get so little of it, why can't we enjoy it? Pink is the colour of the World Cup. Not just pink, but hot pink. If you're watching the England versus Croatia game, you might have noticed that the Croatian goalkeeper not only conceded four goals, but he was also wearing hot pink.
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Chapter 5: What role does peer pressure play in teenage risk-taking?
So that's one reason. I suppose it's a bit of a momentum. There's a bit of pink momentum created by Barbie. Maybe that's a bit of it. I see some of the officials wear pink as well. And you're going, pink? Yeah, I remember seeing one of the French rugby teams in a pink kit. Now, that's a good few years ago and I thought, pink isn't a boy's colour. Of course, I was wrong because pink originally...
was a boy's colour. Everton wore a pink strip in 1892. Did you know? And pink was associated with boys right up until the beginning of the 20th century and then it flipped for some reason. So pink was for boys, blue was for girls, blue was seen as a feminine colour and then it flipped and pink was girls and blue was boys and it has been that way since.
But it looks like with the World Cup maybe that's all changing. And maybe it doesn't matter anymore. Pink, blue, whatever you're having yourself. I think that's the way the world's going.
Chapter 6: How does the teenage brain affect decision-making?
But watch out for the pink boots. And as a guy in GQ magazine says, everywhere you look, the boots are pink, fluoro pink, hot pink, fuchsia pink. Once you notice it, you can't unsee it. Yeah. Of course, once you notice the gambling ads during the World Cup, you can't unsee them either.
And we were talking about this last week and as a result probably it came up in my feed a story of a guy called Craig Clements from Derbyshire in the UK and he has a gambling addiction and he has ran up in the past an Ā£80,000 gambling debt. Anyway, he's calling on the authorities to sort out the advertising around the World Cup because as we established last week
There is a watershed ban in the UK on gambling. So you can't gamble before nine o'clock. But of course, most of the games are after nine o'clock. So he's calling for a ban. We were looking at the Irish situation. And although there is something written in legislation, that legislation hasn't been passed yet. So we got on to the Gambling Authority of Ireland and asked them what the story is.
And a lovely lady called Deryn Dunley got back to us. And she explained that, yes, there will be a ban between 5.30am and 9 o'clock under Section 149 of the Gambling Regulation Act 2024, but that hasn't been put in place yet.
So what they're doing at the moment is this relatively new Gambling Authority of Ireland, they've only been in place since March of last year, they're handing out the licences. And then when all of that is done, under the contract that they draw up with the licensees, they won't be allowed to advertise between 5.30 and 9 o'clock. And
So they say, therefore, once operators are licensed by the GRAI and the relevant section of the Act is commenced, it will be a contravention for licenses to advertise on television during the time frame mentioned above. I hope that information is helpful. Thanks. That's Deryn Dunlea, Assistant Director of Consumer Protection and Communications. I'm going to send more emails. I like that.
I like sending emails like that and getting responses. And in fairness to Deryn, she was back onto us, I think, Wednesday of last week. We got busy and we didn't get around to it, but there it is. And I'll say it again. You would think that RTE would just, for the sake of public service media, isn't that what they call themselves, would just not advertise gambling during the World Cup.
Now, maybe legally they have to take the gambling ads. I don't know. I see in the UK, for example, the gambling companies self-regulated themselves in that they took it on and they weren't asked to do it by the government, that there's no gambling whistle to whistle, no gambling ads between the kickoff whistle and the final whistle. They think it's all over. It is now.
They're getting very excited. It could be 1966 all over again. They're getting very excited about England's prospects in this World Cup. Yeah. Oh God. Like it's 60 years on and they're still talking about the 1966 win. So you imagine if they won this year. I don't think it's going to happen. France actually look unbeatable. Just for your information. The Leaving Cert is finishing up this week.
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Chapter 7: What strategies can parents use to guide their teens in risk-taking?
she failed English in her Leaving Cert. Clare Keegan failed English in her Leaving Cert. Would you believe it? She must be messing. No, she's not. And she says in this podcast with the Irish Times that she passed everything else. But on English, she says, I'm not able to explain it as in English. I can write it, but I can't explain it.
So if somebody like Clare Keegan, who's a world-renowned writer, fails their Leaving Cert English, maybe we should look at the curriculum and see if it's fit for purpose. But that'll be reassuring for a lot of people, including myself. I scraped a pass in Honours English in the Leaving... So after reading that, I think I'm going to write a book. That's it. Why did you decide to write a book?
Well, I heard Clare Keegan say that she failed her Leaving Cert English paper. We were watching Jules Holland last night. Jules Holland, 68th season of Later with Jules Holland. Isn't that amazing? Tom said, what age is that man? Thinking that each season corresponded to a year. No, I should have looked up.
I think he's in the 70s, but still looking very youthful and behaving very youthful and still passionate and enthusiastic about music. I don't always watch it, but I always enjoy it when I see it later with Jules Holland. And last night, as it often did over the years, it introduced me to an act which just knocked my socks off. It knocked my polka dot socks off. Angine de Boitrine.
and gene the poitrine they're canadian prog rock want for better description and duo and and they're they're visually amazing so one of them wears an inverted pyramid on their head the other guy has something that looks like a a disused bomb on his an old-fashioned world war ii bomb on his head everything is black and white polka dot
and one of them operates in bare feet so it's just a drummer and then the other person has a double neck guitar a bass guitar and a six string guitar and then it gets into mad musical stuff that I don't understand but it's double fretting or something like that and it's math rock and it's absurdist and anyway I'll just play a little bit it's the whole package I think is Angina de Poitrine.
You have to see it. You have to see it. They went viral when they did a recording for a French radio station back in December and millions of people watched it. And when you click on, if you search them, this will cheer you up on this Monday, search them on Google, Angine de Poitrine, A-N-G-I-N-E D-E-P-O-I-T-R-I-N-E and all the polka dots come up on the Google page. But have a look at them.
You may not like their music, but they'll make you smile. We need more. What does it mean in English? It means angina pectoris. Angina is like a heart attack, I think. Angina, yeah. They're Canadian and so too are Matt Johnson and his... his partner in comedy, Jay McCarroll. And they have a new movie out called Nirvana, The Band, The Show, The Movie. And I'm looking forward to seeing that.
They were a viral hit back in the days. And now it's not a big budget thing, but it's a movie and it pays homage to Back to the Future. And there's a motorhome that time travels. It's mad stuff. Nirvana, The Band, The Show, The Movie. And Nirvana is spelt with three Ns as opposed to two. The other thing that caught my attention over the weekend was the tracking cuckoo project.
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Chapter 8: How can understanding adolescent development help parents?
And how did it fly for so long when I got really tired? Yesterday was Father's Day, so belated happy Father's Day to all you dads out there. And to celebrate, I was allowed to do a disco in the living room. I was allowed to bring my toys out and play with them because it was Father's Day. So we did a little bit of a mix and it's up there on Instagram.
And it's getting some great, hilarious comments. Some people remembered the glory days of Nijinsky's and Mime's nightclubs. And other people are questioning my rhythm and stuff like that. Anyway, it could be a thing. It could be a regular thing. We could do a little dad disco every week. I'm working on this one. That's Alison Limerick, Where Love Lives. Goes nicely into Maloco.
And sing it back, I told you. Here we go. There's a little mix for you on a Monday morning. Coman Octo's on the way. So Colman Octor is a psychotherapist. He helps children and adolescents and young adults. And today we're going to talk about risk taking in adolescence. Hello, Colman. How are you, Ray? How's it going? Not too bad. So I suppose that that's a bit of a cliche, isn't it?
That teenagers are risk takers, but it is scientifically proven.
Yeah, I mean, I suppose the experience of risk taking is part of a very normal part of development that needs to happen in order for young people to reach adulthood. You know, so if you can imagine that adolescence is that bridging space between being a child and being an adult. You can't really develop without taking some risks. You know, there can be no growth without change.
You know, so you change from being maybe quite a compliant child to being less compliant. And maybe again, I think we have a connotation that it's negative when it actually because we think about things like drinking and taking drugs and drugs. you know, activities that are almost antisocial. But risk taking is really, it's an integral part of development and growth.
If you didn't have any risk, if you didn't take risks, you wouldn't expand your awareness of the world. But what we have to understand is that when you're taking those risks, there's other things going on that influence that. So if you can imagine the neurology of the teenage brain, and we put a lot down to hormones. A lot of people say, oh, that's teenage hormones.
the neurology is probably something we don't pay enough attention to. And the teenage brain is very much under construction. So it's still in that childlike, I want it and I'm taking it. And they're only starting to develop the skills of self-regulation and being able to manage emotion.
And so when you have the teenager who kind of flies off the handle or has this kind of reflex, almost involuntary response, they might take the F off or something and then automatically straight away, you can see they've just regretted what they've done. You know, it's almost like the best way to explain the teenage brain is as a very sensitive accelerator and really slow and stodgy brakes.
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