Opinions Matter with Adrian & Jeremy

A Dublin mum of 3 caused war on today's pod after suggesting that the government should fund summer camps for parents strugglng on welfare. Her plea for extra money didn't go down well with the callers. Take a listen

It’s the weekend “Get It Off Your Chest” edition — the most random corner of Opinions Matter where literally anything can come up… and it does.Adrian and Jeremy swap regrets, from giving up the smokes too late to Jeremy’s heartbreak over never going to his Debs (including the brutal reason why). Then it gets even weirder when he discovers, via old wallpaper, that he once had an imaginary friend called Eugene.Katie rings in in a blind panic because she can’t figure out a self-service petrol station, there’s a proper row over Michael Jackson’s innocence, and the lads taste the new candy floss flavour Tayto… and nearly vomit.

Casper is raging after discovering his 8-year-old son’s best mate has been signed up to a boxing club — he said “moron parents” are turning kids into “little hard men”.Adrian and Jeremy ask the big question: is kids’ boxing about discipline, confidence and fitness — or are we literally teaching children to punch someone in the head?Angela says it’s “disgusting” and far more dangerous than people admit, while parents, coaches and callers hit back with talk of headgear, strict rules, point scoring and self-defence.And then Joseph goes nuclear, branding boxing a “scumbag sport” and setting off a proper row.

Niamh emails in raging about the amount of people taking “fat jabs” like Ozempic and Mounjaro, calling them the “lazy way out” and saying weight loss should be done the old-fashioned way — diet and exercise.Adrian argues it’s nobody’s business how someone loses weight, once they’re healthier. Jeremy isn’t having it, saying people don’t deserve praise if “the jab did the work”.Stay listening for the awkward moment when Jeremy is called out by a colleague.

It’s the uncut, unedited weekend edition of Opinions Matter - Get It Off Your Chest!Adrian & Jeremy take a nostalgic but totally inappropriate trip back to the days of “page three” in tabloids, and why it even existed in the first place.Then Jeremy nearly walks into a “Brazilian massage” place in town looking for a shoulder rub… until a quick Google reveals what the “full treatment” and a “four-handed massage” really means. Imagine the scandal.Plus: Bounty bars, coconut stuck in your teeth, popcorn choking in the cinema, Lilt being “gone”, and the big question—what words would you never use in front of your ma?

It’s Opinions Matter Extra – the uncut, unedited weekend episode where Adrian and Jeremy chat pure “bollocksology” while the Facebook audience builds… and it goes everywhere.Jeremy marks the anniversary of an anti-vaxxer’s “you’ll be dead in five years, clot boy” tweet… only to declare he’s officially cheated death.Then it’s onto the important stuff: why rounds only suit big drinkers, how to make fish fingers, chips, beans and even a battered Mars bar sound posh with ChatGPT… and a full-on row over whether Ireland has any decent tourist attractions at all.

A WhatsApp lands from Jay about his mate Andre (20) who’s been kicked out of home after his parents found a bag of cocaine in his bedroom. Now Andre is sleeping in a car in Shankill and washing in the gym — and the big question explodes: did his Mam and Dad do the right thing, or is it “shame on you” for making your own child homeless?Adrian says there has to be consequences when someone brings drugs into the family home. Jeremy argues love should be unconditional.