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Mar 31, 2025 • 6min
Could an Apple iPhone a day keep the doctor away?
Could your iPhone replace visits to the GP? That is Apple's plan, according to reports. Newstalk's Technology Correspondent Jess Kelly joined us on the show.
Mar 31, 2025 • 4min
Getting aid to Myanmar in the wake of a devastating earthquake
At least 17 hundred are dead following an earthquake in Myanmar this weekend, while hundreds remain trapped in the rubble. Ciara Kelly was joined by Ciarán Donnelly, Senior Vice President for Crisis Response, Recovery & Development at the International Rescue Committee.
Mar 31, 2025 • 3min
Tragedy as two women killed in Cork collision
Two people have been killed while two children were injured following a crash in Mallow, county Cork, yesterday afternoon. Ralph Riegel, Southern Correspondent for the Irish Independent and Bernard Moynihan, Fianna Fáil Councillor for Mallow-Kanturk joined us on Newstalk Breakfast.
Mar 28, 2025 • 3min
All Things Considered
All things considered, are the state's water systems in 'a desperate state?' Ciara and Shane discuss.
Mar 28, 2025 • 5min
Smartphone Study
Bans on smartphone and social media access alone fail to equip children for healthy use of such technology. That’s according to a new study published by the British Medical Journal.The research was led by Dr Victoria A Goodyear of the Institute for Mental Health at the University of Birmingham in England, who joined NewsTalk Breakfast earlier to discuss.
Mar 28, 2025 • 3min
Bangkok Earthquake
A powerful earthquake has rattled Myanmar and neighbouring Thailand, trapping dozens of workers in a collapsed skyscraper in Bangkok, where a state of emergency has been declared. Tommy Walker,a Journalist in Bangkok joins NewsTalk Breakfast to go through more.
Mar 28, 2025 • 6min
'Unnecessary' Hip Surgeries
A draft audit report into 561 hip surgeries on children since 2021 found 79 per cent of the surgeries at Cappagh hospital and 60 per cent at Temple Street “did not meet the threshold for surgery”. Sinn Féin TD Pearse Doherty raised the issue in the Dáil yesterday and joined NewsTalk Breakfast earlier to discuss further.
Mar 28, 2025 • 7min
Price of Second-Hand Homes Still Rising
According to the latest residential market review from leading property advisors DNG, the average price of a second-hand home in Dublin is fast approaching €600,000. Marian Finnegan, Managing Director of Sherry Fitzgerald joins NewsTalk Breakfast to go through the latest on these figures.
Mar 28, 2025 • 7min
Dáil Chaos – What Do The Scientists Say?
The Dáil descended into chaos on Tuesday, but what is driving our politicians to behave this way?What does behavioural science say about it?Leslie Shoemaker, Counselling Psychologist and Lecturer in TU Dublin joins NewsTalk Breakfast to speak about what has our politicians acting out of sorts.
Mar 28, 2025 • 8min
Irish Mammies
With Mother’s Day on Sunday who better to talk to about the enigmatic and iconic Irish mammy than Jen Hogan, Irish Times Columnist and Host of the “Conversations with Parents” Podcast.
