Reasons to be Happy: Seagull Competition, Sun, Ariana Grande

About this episode

The episode discusses uplifting news stories with Meghan O’Halloran to promote optimism.

Lunchtime Live's Reasons to be Happy looks at some of the news stories that you might have missed that will leave you feeling more optimistic. Newstalk’s Meghan O’Halloran joined Andrea in the studio to put a smile on your faces…

People in this episode

Host: Andrea

Guest: Meghan O’Halloran

Topics covered

• optimism
• news stories
• happiness
• seagull competition
• sun
• Ariana Grande

Keywords

• happiness
• optimism
• news
• seagull competition
• Ariana Grande

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Newstalk

Books & works: Ariana Grande

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