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Oct 13, 2025 • 5min
Call for children to Walk to school this week
The Green-Schools Travel Programme is calling on people to ditch the car this week and walk to school. The theme for National Walk to School week is Connections and to explain more about the programme was Aengus Kennedy, Green Schools Travel Officer.
Oct 13, 2025 • 7min
A new 'Assisted Human Reproduction Regulatory Authority'
Minister for Health Jennifer Carroll MacNeill has today announced the Assisted Human Reproduction Regulatory Authority. It aims to protect the health and legal rights of children born through assisted reproduction or surrogacy, as well as the rights of intending parents and donors involved. We got the details from Dr Brian Tobin, Associate professor at University of Galway and member of the board.
Oct 13, 2025 • 6min
Hostage release will happen 'early on Monday morning', says Israel
Israel says it expects all remaining living hostages in Gaza to be freed today under a new ceasefire deal with Hamas. While Palestinians await the release of hundreds of prisoners from Israeli jails. We get the latest on this with Mark Weiss, Israel Correspondent with the Irish Times.
Oct 10, 2025 • 5min
What next after the Metrolink?
“Wouldn’t it be great if we could build rail lines as fast as roads?” Planning permission for the long-awaited Metrolink was given the go-ahead, but it may be another decade before we reap any benefits.Brian Caulfield, Professor in the School of Engineering at Trinity College Dublin, joins Newstalk Breakfast to discuss.
Oct 10, 2025 • 4min
Household incomes to shrink as a result of Budget 2026
Tax and welfare measures introduced in Budget 2026 will result in average 2 per cent loss in disposable income. That’s according to a new analysis published this morning by the Economic and Social Research Institute.
Oct 10, 2025 • 5min
New waste compactors to be installed by DCC
Dublin City Council has announced the installation of new waste compactors, an initiative which will see the removal of one thousand plastic bags per day. Speaking to Newstalk Breakfast was the Executive Manager in Environment and Transport Derek Kelly.
Oct 10, 2025 • 8min
Israel and Hamas agree first phase of deal
The Israeli Government has officially approved a ceasefire for Gaza, after it reached an agreement with Hamas for the Palestinian militant group to release all the hostages it holds. We discuss all this with Daniel Levy President of the U.S./Middle East Project and Former Israeli peace negotiator.
Oct 10, 2025 • 5min
Where are we now with the presential election?
Controversy continues to surround this year’s Presidential election, but where does the race stand following the first one on one debate between the remaining two candidates? All to discuss with Seán Defoe Newstalk’s Political Correspondent.
Oct 10, 2025 • 7min
When should parents let children go out alone?
When should parents let children go out alone? It's a question that Freelance Journalist Niamh O’Reilly knows all too well. She recently allowed her boys, who are six and eight-year-old, walk to the supermarket alone.
Oct 10, 2025 • 8min
Should Donald Trump be given the Nobel Peace Prize?
The Nobel Peace Prize winner is set to be named later today, with Donald Trump and his administration having made clear more than once that they think the US president deserves the award. But is he really worthy of the honour? We asked Brendan O’Neill Chief Political Writer at Spiked and writer for the Spectator and also Paul Murphy, People Before Profit TD.
