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Oct 31, 2025 • 4min

Major rail works to affect many routes this weekend

Irish rail works will impact Heuston routes and Dun Laoghaire to Greystones this weekend .We get the detail of the rail works with Barry Kenny, Communications Manager with Iarnród Éireann.
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Oct 31, 2025 • 2min

Man, 20s, dies following serious assault in Kildare town

A man aged in his 20s who was attacked in Kildare town in the early hours of Sunday morning has died in hospital. We get the latest with Emily Keegan, Newstalk Reporter.
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Oct 31, 2025 • 4min

Riff: The embarrassing having a boyfriend trend

Ciara and Sean discuss the so called embarrassing having a boyfriend trend. Just what is it?
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Oct 30, 2025 • 6min

Why Lily Allen has blazed a trail for women dealing with breakups!

Lily Allen’s new album ‘West End Girl’ is showing women everywhere that unleashing our anger can actually be a superpower. That’s according to Helen Coffey Senior features writer for the independent.
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Oct 30, 2025 • 6min

Will the Gaza ceasefire hold?

The Israeli military yesterday carried out further strikes on Gaza, a move that raises concerns about the fragility of its ceasefire with Hamas. The IDF said it conducted the strike on what it called "terrorist infrastructure". We discuss further with Sean Bell, Former Fighter Pilot, Military Analyst and Co-Founder of Red Matrix Productions. 
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Oct 30, 2025 • 5min

Local Property Tax return deadline looming

Over 1.5 million households haven’t filed property tax valuation as the deadline approaches.  So what do households need to do?  To give us some advice was Karl Deeter, Financial Analyst. 
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Oct 30, 2025 • 7min

Keeping the car at home can have huge benefits for our health

The government must do more to prioritise active travel. That’s the call in a new report from the Climate and Health Alliance. We discuss this further with Caoimhe Clarke Consultant Psychiatrist and Co-Author of the report.  
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Oct 30, 2025 • 6min

A call for higher gambling taxes

Stewart Kenny, One of the Founders and Former Chief Executive of Paddy Power has called for higher gambling taxes to deter bookmakers from tactics that draw punters into more addictive games, as he said profits across the sector were “exploding”. Stewart spoke to Sean this morning,
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Oct 30, 2025 • 6min

Breast cancer diagnoses increase 26% in women under-50

The number of women aged 20–49 diagnosed with breast cancer has risen by over a quarter in the past decade, according to new figures from the National Cancer Registry of Ireland. The Marie Keating Foundation has launched a new awareness campaign urging women, especially those outside the screening age, to check their breasts regularly for any changes.  Speaking to Ciara this morning was Professor Seamus O’Reilly Consultant Medical Oncologist in Cork University Hospital.
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Oct 30, 2025 • 5min

The latest on the Louvre jewellery heist

The two suspects arrested over the Louvre jewellery heist have "partially" confessed to their involvement in the robbery.  Catherine Porter, International Correspondent for the New York Times brought the latest update on the investigation.

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