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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 • 5min
New school programme to address rising body image issues
Bodywhys has launched a new wellbeing programme to address the rising body image and eating disorder concerns in Irish secondary schools. A survey from the charity found that 45 per cent of teachers are aware of students in their classes who are experiencing an eating disorder. Joining Ciara to discuss was Dr. Fiona Flynn, who developed the programme.
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.
Oct 16, 2025 • 6min
Should daylight savings be scrapped?
It's nearly that time of year again, the clocks will go back by an hour on the 26th of October, marking the end of daylight savings. Talks of abolishing clock changes are back on the agenda at the European Parliament. So, is it time to do it? Ciara discussed further with Sean Kelly, Fine Gael MEP & Denis Drennan, President of the Irish Creamery Milk Suppliers Association.
Oct 16, 2025 • 13min
Bertie Ahern, former Taoiseach on the Middle East, the Presidency and more
Bertie Ahern, former Taoiseach spoke to Shane this morning on the middle east, the Presidency and his own disappointment at not being the Fianna Fail candidate.
Oct 16, 2025 • 2min
Hamas says all reachable hostage bodies recovered
Hamas has announced that the remains of all the deceased Israeli hostages that it can reach have been handed back and it would need specialist recovery equipment to retrieve the rest from Gaza’s ruin. This comes amid threats from Israel to resume fighting if the terms of ceasefire are not honoured. For more on this we spoke to Mark Weiss, Israel Correspondent with the Irish Times.
Oct 16, 2025 • 5min
Housing Plan to include more purchases of derelict properties
The Government's long-awaited Housing Plan is expected to include much more use of compulsory purchase orders by local authorities to deal with derelict properties. To discuss this more, Shane was joined by Dr Carole Pollard, Former president of the Royal Institute of Architects of Ireland & Editor of the book Irish Cities in Crisis.
Oct 16, 2025 • 4min
Donaghmede: Murder investigation is underway after a boy was fatally stabbed
A murder investigation is under way after a boy was fatally stabbed during a row at a Tusla-run care facility in Donaghmede, north Dublin. We get the latest on this with Conor Lally, Irish Times Crime and Security Editor.
