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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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Feb 21, 2025 • 6min
What now for the Gaza ceasefire?
The Israeli Government has accused Hamas of violating the ceasefire deal and lying about the identity of one of the bodies returned yesterday. But what does that mean for the ceasefire? For more on this Ciara was joined on the show by Alistair Bunkall, Sky News Middle East Correspondent.

Feb 21, 2025 • 5min
All Things Considered: The amount of potholes on our roads!
Yesterday Jonathan suffered a blow out on this tyre from a pothole. We ask what are the roads like in your area?

Feb 21, 2025 • 5min
Concerns over plans to expand drone delivery services across Dublin!
There are plans to expand drone delivery services across Dublin, however, some residents have concerns over noise and safety. Manna has already made over 150,000 deliveries by air and says it has received 53 complaints in 12 months. Our reporter, Josh Crosbie, has been speaking with those who could soon have drones flying overhead.

Feb 21, 2025 • 6min
Are you seeing a rise in the cost of your grocery shop?
The Price of household staples like milk, butter and potatoes have risen in last 12 months. That is according to new statistics from the Central Statistics Office. To go through these findings Ciara spoke to Consumer Journalist, Siobhan Maguire.

Feb 21, 2025 • 3min
Met Éireann have issued a status yellow wind warning for seven counties
Met Éireann have issued a status yellow wind warning for seven counties for this morning with difficult travel conditions and very strong winds expected. We get the latest on this weather warning with Alan O’Reilly of Carlow Weather.

Feb 20, 2025 • 5min
Why are we so attached to our phones?
Almost half of people in Ireland use their smartphones during meals. That’s according to a new survey out this morning from Deloitte. Brendan Kelly, Professor of Psychiatry at Trinity College Dublin and author of Resilience discussed these findings further.

Feb 20, 2025 • 5min
Are Gardaí fitness requirements becoming too relaxed?
Gardaí are relaxing the fitness level required to join the force as it struggles to keep recruitment numbers up. We discuss this change with Pat Marry, former detective inspector and author of the upcoming book Murder at the Ice House: The Killing of Irene White

Feb 20, 2025 • 4min
Why Ireland’s infrastructure approach needs fresh thinking!
Ireland lags behind its peers in basic infrastructure. That’s according to the Irish Fiscal Council who will hold a conference on infrastructure today.

Feb 20, 2025 • 12min
Trump calls Zelenskiy a ‘dictator without elections’
US president Donald Trump has denounced Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelenskiy as “a dictator without elections” In a post on his truth social media platform, Trump called Zelensky a "modestly successful comedian" who had "talked the US into "spending $350 billion dollars, to go into a war that couldn't be won, that never had to start". We get reaction to what President Trump has said with Former Taoiseach Bertie Ahern and Misha Glenny, author and broadcaster, and the Rector of the Institute for Human Sciences in Vienna.

Feb 20, 2025 • 7min
New legislation to be brought forward to tackle knife crime
The government are set to bring forward stop and search legislation to tackle knife crime. To discuss this new legislation with Ciara was Alan Greene, a Reader in Constitutional Law and Human Rights at Birmingham Law School.


