Local stories with a human pulse.
LMFM Late Lunch Listen Back gathers the texture of northeast life through brisk, warm conversations with guests, regular contributors, and local callers. It moves easily from puffins and sport to wedding setbacks, student apps, pet grief, and pub emergencies.
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LMFM Late Lunch Listen Back is built from the everyday drama of a region paying attention to itself. It has the feel of a live local show saved for later: phone numbers repeated, guests welcomed quickly, competitions dropped in, and stories picked up where the community is already talking. The pace is brisk. The emotional range is wider than the casual surface first suggests. A Friday episode can move from Leinster football and Circus Gerbola tickets to puffins near the northeast coastline, a student enterprise finalist, and an emergency in a Drogheda pub. That mix is the point. The show treats small details as worth noticing, whether it is cherry blossom on Ballymackenny Road, dandelions feeding bees, or the venue that helped a couple keep their wedding day intact. Guests often do the heavy lifting. Sarah Brady brings the panic and relief of a wedding nearly derailed by fire, while Jake Moore recounts the response after Eamon suffered a heart attack at Barlow's Railway Tavern. Aoife McPartland gives Wildlife Matters its friendly authority, making puffins feel close, strange, and vulnerable all at once. Roisin Maguire brings a younger thread to the programme with Scrollbuster, an app aimed at giving people short breaks from social media. The show also makes space for harder conversations. Alison O'Reilly speaks openly about the grief of losing a dog, and the exchange becomes a broader reflection on love, loss, and animal cruelty. A Chernobyl story brings in adoption, medical treatment, family support, and fundraising for Homes of Hope. None of it is handled with distance. The interviews tend to echo a guest's own words back, then follow the next practical or emotional detail. Regular features, sports previews, music items, wildlife slots, and local campaigns give the programme a familiar frame. Inside that frame, the best moments feel unscripted and specific. LMFM Late Lunch Listen Back suits people who like radio that knows its roads, venues, schools, pubs, families, and causes by name. It is warm without being glossy. It is local without feeling narrow.
Made for: For listeners who like community radio, local Irish stories, gentle humour, practical updates, and interview-led segments with real emotional weight.
What sets it apart: Its strength is the way ordinary local details become meaningful: a rescued wedding, a pub emergency, a puffin lesson, or a grieving dog owner can all sit naturally in the same afternoon.
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Based on 5 episodes we listened to · September 2026
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