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Sep 18, 2025 • 4min
Calls for improved services as nursing home demand surges
Nursing Homes Ireland calls for urgent action on capacity, workforce and equitable access for nursing homes. This comes as the ESRI warns that demand could surge by 80 per cent in coming years, with an additional 15,000 beds required by 2040. Shane discussed this and more with Tadhg Daly, CEO of Nursing Homes Ireland.
Sep 18, 2025 • 5min
Jimmy Kimmel has had his programme pulled!
US talk show host Jimmy Kimmel has had his programme pulled over "offensive and insensitive" comments about Charlie Kirk. For more on this we heard from David Smith, Washington Bureau Chief with The Guardian.
Sep 18, 2025 • 5min
Gardaí have found human remains at a site in Donabate
Gardaí searching for Daniel Aruebose, who went missing when he was three years old have found human remains at a site in Donabate, north Dublin. The remains are expected to be removed from the site on the Portrane Road for a post-mortem examination later today. We get the latest on this with Barry Whyte, Chief Newstalk Reporter.
Sep 17, 2025 • 5min
New Research finds that Boys spend the equivalent of a full school week playing video games
Teenage boys are now spending more time playing video games than they are at school, according to UK research from gambling addiction charity Ygam. They found boys aged 15 to 17 play 34 hours a week, which is roughly five hours a day. Stella O’Malley, Psychotherapist & Author joined Newstalk Breakfast to reflect on the findings and its implications
Sep 17, 2025 • 2min
Tyler Robinson appears in court charged with the murder of conservative influencer Charlie Kirk.
Harriet Alexander, U.S.-based journalist, joined Newstalk Breakfast with the latest regarding the shooting of Charlie Kirk as Tyler Robinson appeared in a Utah court charged with his murder.
Sep 17, 2025 • 7min
“Gotcha” claims regarding presidential nominee Heather Humphreys’ husband has no place in modern Ireland
Edward Burke, historian at UCD and author of Ulster’s Lost Counties, joined Newstalk Breakfast to argue why Gotcha” claims about Heather Humphreys’ husband and his alleged ties to the Orange Order has no place in modern Ireland. And to ask if the Humphreys apologise for their historical connections with the Orange tradition?”
Sep 17, 2025 • 5min
Student reps to tell the Oireachtas about acute student accommodation crisis.
Despite being in a Rent Pressure Zone, monthly fees for on-campus accommodation at DCU increased by almost 7 per cent this year through service charges. Joining Newstalk Breakfast to discuss more on student accommodation is Bryan O’Mahony, President of AMLÉ formerly known as Union Students of Ireland, who will be addressing the Oireachtas Committee on Higher Education on this later today
Sep 17, 2025 • 7min
New Oireachtas report suggests a Netflix levy could be back on the table.
The government should reverse its decision from earlier this year and introduce a content levy on streaming services, so say members of the Committee on Arts, Media, Communications, Culture and Sport. Fianna Fáil TD, Malcolm Byrne is one member with this view, and he joined Newstalk Breakfast to explain.
Sep 17, 2025 • 5min
Gaelgeoirí to hold first national protest on the Irish language in over a decade.
More funding, better education and housing in the Gaeltacht will be among the demands at the first National Protest for the Irish Language in over a decade. Protestors will march this Saturday from Parnell Street to Leinster House. Joining Newstalk Breakfast to discuss Julian De Spáinn, Ard Runai of Conradh na Gaeilge
Sep 17, 2025 • 4min
Wellies, mud and presidential hopefuls – Henry McKean reports from the Ploughing Championshi
The Presidential Election was in the Offaly air at the Ploughing Championships along with the mud and the craic. It's Day two in Screggan and over the 3 days 300,000 are expected. Henry McKean sent this report from a muddy field...
