As 2022 draws to a close, it’s time to take a breath and look back on another year of highs, lows and memorable moments.
Moncrieff has been with you through it all – and here are some of the best bits from the show this year:
The one-chip challenge
What's it like to eat the world's spiciest potato chip?
One man with experience of eating spicy food is Roy Williams - who previously challenged himself to suck on the so-called “Toe of Satan” for five whole minutes and succeeded - raising money for the Northern Ireland Children’s Hospice in the process.
Back in September, Newstalk’s own Simon Tierney joined him for the “hottest chilli challenge in the world”.
@newstalkfm Can you handle the heat? 🔥Newstalk’s Simon Tierney attempted the One Chip Challenge #onechipchallenge #eatingcompetition #spicyfood #toeofsatanchallenge ♬ original sound - Newstalk
US singer Garth Brooks speaks at a news conference in Tennessee in July 2014. Picture by: John Lee Montgomery III / Alamy Stock PhotoGarth Brooks
This summer, country music legend Garth Brooks took Ireland by storm with five nights of sold-out shows in Croke Park.
Speaking exclusively to Moncrieff ahead of the tour, he said he would be going back to his roots on his return home.
Garth told Moncrieff why Dublin would be enjoying the last of his big stadium shows.
Henry McKean talks to a gun owner in Nashville, Tennessee.Henry in Nashville – ‘Guns solve or stop crimes in progress’
Newstalk’s own Henry McKean set off for a whistlestop tour of the US back in September – learning all he could about the people and culture along the way.
On his stop in Nashville, the Newstalk reporter took a deep dive into the country’s love of guns – with one advocate insisting that the right to bear arms makes the US the “last bastion of freedom” in the world.
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Niall Harbison saving street dogs in Thailand
Lovin’ Dublin founder Niall Harbison is no stranger to the limelight – but in 2018, he gave it all up for the quiet life in Thailand.
In October he told Sean that he spent years in Ireland as a ‘functioning alcoholic’ – but has now found a new lease on life.
In a fascinating conversation, he described how he now spends his days saving street dogs in South East Asia.
Sean Moncrieff trys a chicken burger with cabbage.A KFC cabbage burger?
Back in June, a lettuce shortage in Australia saw KFC slipping cabbage into its chicken burgers.
Needless to say, Henry McKean was on a mission to try the new delicacy.
He made his own cabbage burger by adding boiled cabbage to two KFC Zinger burgers – and tried them out, live on air.
What does it taste like? Well, according to Sean Moncrieff, “a mixture of a chicken burger and arse”.
Television and Radio presenter, Graham Norton, arrives at the Royal Academy Summer ExhibitionGraham Norton
Over the summer, Graham Norton told Sean that working from home had given him a new lease on life.
Aside from his TV chat show, the Irishman also presents 'The Graham Norton Radio Show' on Virgin Radio in the UK.
Since the pandemic however, he’s been doing things a little differently - He told Moncrieff he now does a lot of his work from his home in Cork.
