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Oct 17, 2025 • 7min
Research finds majority of children use devices in their bedrooms
New research by Ireland's online safety charity, CyberSafeKids, reveals that 83% of primary school children have access to internet-connected devices in their bedrooms, with 63% allowed to have them overnight. We discuss further with Alex Cooney, CEO of Cybersafe Kids Colman Noctor, Child and Adolescent Psychotherapist.
Oct 17, 2025 • 6min
Do you hold hands in public?
“I hate hand-holding, I find it uncomfortable, I feel self-conscious and I get sweaty” So writes Newstalk’s own Simon Tierney in the Irish Independent and Simon explained why to Ciara this morning.
Oct 17, 2025 • 6min
Trump says he will meet Putin in Hungary for Ukraine talks
US President Donald Trump has said his “success” in the middle east will help in negotiations to end in the war between Russia and Ukraine. He is due to meet with Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky in the White House later today, and has announced a meeting with Vladimir Putin next week in Hungary. We discuss further with Paul Rogers, Emeritus Professor of Peace Studies at Bradford University.
Oct 17, 2025 • 4min
What is your experience of public transport?
'With phase 7 of BusConnects just around the corner . We ask what is your experience of public transport? Ciara and Shane discuss this together this morning.
Oct 17, 2025 • 7min
Phase 7 of BusConnects is just around the corner
It’s goodbye to the 140, the 83 and many other buses and hello to Phase 7 of Bus Connects, which includes the new 24-hour “F” route. But how will it help you in getting from A to B? With us to explain more is Blake Boland, Spokesperson for Dublin Bus.
Oct 17, 2025 • 6min
Plug-in EVs pumping out five times more emissions
Plug-in hybrid electric vehicles pump out nearly five times more planet-heating pollution than official figures show, according to a new report from Transport & Environment. We discussed this further with Sofía Navas, Cars and Charging Research Analyst for the think tank Transport & Environment.
Oct 17, 2025 • 5min
National Community Gardens and Allotments Week
Neighbourhoods across the nation should reimagine how we grow, share and eat food by growing gardens in their areas. That’s the call from Ballymun-based charity GAP Ireland, as part of National Community Gardens and Allotments Week. Henry McKean visited the area putting this call into practice and sent us this report.
Oct 17, 2025 • 5min
Farmer Tom Niland “can now rest in peace”
Farmer Tom Niland “can now rest in peace,” his family said, after three men were sentenced yesterday to between 14 and 15 years in prison for his unlawful killing. The 75-year-old died on September 30th, 2023, 20 months after suffering a violent attack in his west Sligo home on January 18th, 2022. Independent Cllr for Sligo, Tom Niland’s Neighbour and Friend Michael Clarke spoke to Newstalk Breakfast about his friend Tom.
Oct 16, 2025 • 5min
A call for the public to learn CPR
Linda Hall, a Teacher in Kings Wood Community College in Tallaght, was just 26 when she lost her father to sudden cardiac arrest, just three weeks after his 48th birthday. Now she’s urging the public to learn cardiopulmonary resuscitation, better known as CPR. Linda spoke to Ciara this morning.
Oct 16, 2025 • 3min
Scam call centres paying for contact details of potential Irish victims
Scam call centres are paying up to €1,200 per person for the contact details of potential Irish victims. This is according to leaked documents from a scam operation obtained by The Irish Times show. For more on this we heard from Conor Gallagher, Crime and Security Correspondent of The Irish Times.
