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Newstalk Breakfast brings you all the news you need to set you up for the day – from politics, business, sport, entertainment and everything in between. Shane Coleman and Ciara Kelly have all the stories that matter, every weekday from 7-9AM. Listen and subscribe to Newstalk Breakfast on Apple Podcasts and Spotify. Download, listen and subscribe on the Newstalk App. You can also listen to Newstalk live on newstalk.com or on Alexa, by and asking: 'Alexa, play Newstalk'
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Mar 27, 2025 • 5min
TikTok Skincare Trends
Girls as young as 10 are using expensive skincare products in a bid to keep up with the latest trend.But can the popularity of online fads end up damaging kids’ skin?Professor Catriona Ryan, Consultant Dermatologist at the institute of Dermatologists, joins NewsTalk Breakfast to go through this shocking trend.
Mar 27, 2025 • 5min
Parenting Worries
A study has found that nearly nine in ten mums and dads still worry about their children even when they are grown up.Shane Coleman sits down with Dr. Brendan Kelly, Professor of Psychiatry at Trinity College Dublin to go through this study.
Mar 27, 2025 • 5min
Dáil Fallout
Ceann Comhairle Verona Murphy has hit back after the opposition calls for her resignation.Seán Defoe joins NewsTalk Breakfast to go through the latest on the Ceann Comhairle’s position.
Mar 26, 2025 • 5min
All Things Considered
All things considered, was the chaos in Dáil Éireann on Tuesday an embarassment on all sides? Ciara and Shane discuss.
Mar 26, 2025 • 5min
Price Hikes
Consumers warned to brace for flurry of price hikes as cost of health insurance, energy, phone and broadband to surge in the coming month. Sinead Ryan, Presenter of The Home Show and consumer columnist with the Irish Independent joins NewsTalk Breakfast to go through our best options as consumers.
Mar 26, 2025 • 5min
Red Carpet Roundup
Esther McCarthy, Lifestyle Editor and Saturday Weekend Magazine Columnist with The Irish Examiner, joins NewsTalk Breakfast now for our new weekly Red Carpet Roundup.
Mar 26, 2025 • 4min
The Fight Against Tobacco
In a letter to Health Commissioner Oliver Várhelyi, 12 Health Ministers are urging the European Commission to step up its fight against tobacco and novel nicotine products.Des Cox, Consultant in paediatric respiratory medicine at Children’s Health Ireland and member of the Royal College of Physicians of Ireland Advisory Group on Smoking and E-Cigarettes, joins NewsTalk Breakfast to go through the letter’s recommendations.
Mar 26, 2025 • 15min
Dáil Speaking Rights
Minister for Transport, Climate, Environment and Energy, Darragh O’Brien, joins NewsTalk Breakfast to give the governments view on the chaos that erupted in the Dáil on Tuesday.
Mar 26, 2025 • 6min
Political Deception on Climate Change
‘Politicians who lie about climate change should be treated the same way as TV presenters who grope their colleagues’ so says Mike Berners-Lee, Professor at Lancaster University.Mike is the founder of Small World Consulting and Author of several books including his new publication “A Climate of Truth.”He joins NewsTalk Breakfast to explain these views on political deception for climate change.
Mar 26, 2025 • 14min
Dáil Behaviour
After the chaos that descended in the Dail yesterday, there have been questions arising over the confidence in the Ceann Comhairle Verona Murphy.Ciara is joined by Paul Murphy, People Before Profit TD, to go through Tuesday’s chaotic scenes.
