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Aug 6, 2025 • 5min
Summer is the perfect time for a utility bill switch!
Summer is a great time to examine our utility bills and service providers. We all want to save money, and while the bills are low, this is our opportunity. So wrote Caitriona Redmond, Consumer Columnist with the Irish Examiner and she explained all to Ciara this morning.
Aug 6, 2025 • 6min
Israel’s cabinet to decide on Gaza military takeover
The Israeli cabinet is set to meet to consider Prime Minister Netanyahu’s plan for a full military takeover of Gaza, a move not seen in two decades. Ciara gets the latest on the situation there with Gregg Carlstrom, Middle East correspondent for The Economist.
Aug 5, 2025 • 5min
The latest on the kidnapping of Mayo woman Gena Heraty in Haiti
The Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade, Simon Harris TD, has held talks overnight with his Haitian counterpart about the kidnapping of Mayo woman Gena Heraty. For the latest on this was Liz Dunphy, journalist with the Irish Examiner.
Aug 5, 2025 • 5min
Love Island 2025 did this year’s season exceed expectations?
The final of Love Island was on last night, with Toni Laites and Cach Mercer taking the fifty-thousand-pound prize. The iconic reality show has seen a dip in popularity in recent years. But did this year’s season exceed expectations? All to discuss with Fionnuala Jones, Broadcaster, podcaster and self-confessed Love Island expert.
Aug 5, 2025 • 6min
New plans for extreme weather response
The Government is set to consider a major overhaul of its response to flooding and extreme weather emergencies, including plans to establish permanent flood relief centres across key regional locations. We discuss further with Climatologist and Professor Emeritus of Geography at Maynooth University, John Sweeney.
Aug 5, 2025 • 7min
Israeli security veterans urge Trump to help stop the Gaza war
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu will urge a meeting of his security cabinet today to support the full “conquest of the Gaza Strip” according to reports in Israeli media. We get the latest with Alistair Bunkall, Sky News Middle East Correspondent.
Aug 5, 2025 • 7min
Call for domestic abusers to go to refuges instead of partners and children
A leading paediatric consultant has said that domestic abusers should go to refuge centres, instead of their partners and children. Dr Suzanne Crowe says forcing families into refuges disrupts children’s health and education and violates their rights. We discuss further with Sinn Féin Senator Nicole Ryan.
Aug 5, 2025 • 5min
Calls for urgent introduction of transport police
The National Bus and Rail Union is urgently calling for the introduction of a dedicated transport police unit following a violent incident on a Dublin Bus this weekend. Speaking to Newstalk Breakfast was Dermot O’Leary, General Secretary of the National Bus and Rail Union.
Aug 5, 2025 • 5min
Should hospitality workers have to pay tax on tips?
Independent Ireland TD for Cork North-Central, Ken O’Flynn has condemned the Government’s decision to continue taxing tips, calling it “a tax on decency.” Ken spoke to Ciara this morning.
Aug 5, 2025 • 3min
"No stone" will be left unturned to secure the release of Gena Heraty
Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs Simon Harris has said "no stone" will be left unturned to secure the release of an Irish woman Gena Heraty who was kidnapped along with seven other people from an orphanage in Haiti yesterday. Our Reporter Stephanie Rohan joins us for more on this.
