Ryan Tubridy is a broadcaster and best-selling author from Dublin. His stellar broadcasting career includes fourteen years at the helm of the iconic ‘The Late Late Show’, where he has interviewed guests such as U2, Saoirse Ronan, Michael Bublé and Sinead O’Connor on the world’s longest running chat show, and helped raise more than €17,000,000 for charity. His successful radio career has spanned more than 20 years to date, where each morning listeners tuned into the eponymous ‘Ryan Tubridy Show’. His first book ‘JFK in Ireland’ was a number one bestseller selling more than 100,000 copies. It is a profile of U.S. President John F. Kennedy's 1963 visit to Ireland. In his second book, ‘The Irish Are Coming’, he examines the relationship between Britain and Ireland – two countries separated by a small stretch of water but for so long divided politically, socially, culturally and emotionally. Ryan's third book was his first children's book called ‘Patrick and the President’, a captivating read which tells the story through the eyes of a young boy, of John F. Kennedy's return to his ancestral home in 1963. Most recently he wrote a festive book for children called ‘The First Christmas Jumper (and the sheep who changed everything)’.

Irish Times educational columnist Brian Mooney works with pensions and investment company Standard Life in his role as End of Career Guidance Counsellor. One of Ireland’s most prominent guidance counsellors and a regular media commentator, Brian himself retired in 2019 after 43 years in south Dublin secondary school Oatlands College. A former president of the Institute of Guidance Counsellors, Brian helps guide those approaching retirement towards a fulfilling and rewarding second life by helping them think about the skills and sense of purpose they can carry with them and further develop in retirement.