Highlights From Newstalk Breakfast

Limerick bet Kilkenny in Croke Park yesterday evening and became three in a row All Ireland final winners Off The Ball’s Aishling O’Reilly was reporting to us from the winning team’s hotel.

What an enjoyable weekend of sunshine with the highest temperatures of 29 degrees recorded in Dublin Evelyn Cusack, Head of forecasting at Met Eireann spoke to Newstalk Breakfast to give an update on what we can expect from the week ahead.

It’s time for the five remaining candidates in the Conservative leadership race to appeal to the public! They went head-to-head in live TV debates over the weekend. How did they fare? To discuss Vincent spoke to George Parker, Political Editor of the Financial Times.

TikTok is set to roll out content filters and maturity ratings in a pledge to make app safer – but will this actually make a difference? Newstalk’s Technology Correspondent, Jess Kelly spoke to Ciara with the details.

This week the European Commission are set to tell it’s member states to start cutting their gas usage immediately and will upgrade the EU’s emergency status to ‘alert’ as the likelihood of winter shortages increase Muireann Lynch, Energy Economist at the ESRI joins me now to tell us more.

Dissident Fianna Fáil TDs worried about the impact of the cost-of-living crisis are demanding a review of the deal underpinning the coalition put in place two years ago. The call, backed by a large group of backbenchers, is a further blow to the leadership of Taoiseach Micheál Martin. One such TD is Fianna Fail’s John Lahart who joined Ciara this morning on the show.

TikTok trends and viral videos of parents playing pranks on their children can be found in every corner of the internet, but is this a breach of the child’s privacy? Newstalk Breakfast spoke to Psychotherapist and the Author of Fragile, Stella O’Malley to talk about the impact of posting videos of your children online

As the good weather continues, the public is being warned that water safety needs to be at the forefront of everyone’s minds as they head for a dip. This is following the sad news of three drownings over the past week. 14 year old, Bradley Lulendo from Dublin tragically lost his life last week while swimming, and his brother Pasias Lulendo spoke

Incoming asylum seekers from Ukraine and elsewhere have been staying at Dublin Airport due to a shortage of State-provided accommodation. Gormanston Camp will open its doors on Monday to house Ukrainians coming to Ireland as they flee the Russian invasion. Pat Carey is Chair of the Irish Red Cross spoke to Vincent this morning on the show.

The good weather is set to continue with highs of 30 degrees and tropical nights on the way. Head of Forecasting at Met Eireann, Evelyn Cusack with more on the high degrees expected this weekend.

More than 100,000 properties across the State have been impacted by Celtic Tiger-era building defects which could cost the State up to €2.8 billion to repair. Pat Montague is Spokesperson for the Construction Defects Alliance spoke to Newstalk Breakfast this morning.

“Sinn Féin is the party of climate inaction with no vision or policies on achieving targets” That is the view of Richard Bruton, Chairperson of the Fine Gael parliamentary party and former Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment who spoke to Newstalk Breakfast. To debate this too we heard from Darren O’Rourke Sinn Féin Spokesperson on Climate Action, Communications Networks, and Transport.

Staff columnist with The Irish Examiner Michael Moynihan has written this week - ‘The prevalence of the smell around Cork is such that at times you’d wonder if anyone isn’t smoking cannabis, or at least whether anyone is going to the small inconvenience of smoking it behind closed doors. Micheal joined Vincent on the show this morning with more on this.

Rather than allowing marketing executives to dictate how we should feel about growing old, maybe it’s time we began celebrating when we reach old age. That’s the view of the Clinical Director of Therapy Institute and Columnist with the Irish Examiner and author of ‘Parenting the Screenager, Richard Hogan.

Videoing photographing or sharing images of road traffic accidents should be banned. That’s a suggestion being brought forward in a bill by Labour TD and the Party’s Transport Spokesperson Duncan Smith who joined Shane this morning.

Some great albums slip between the cracks. It can be due to inept marketing, bad timing, or sometimes a certain record’s genius is simply misunderstood — being too ahead of its time or out of step with the current trend. What are the best overlooked or underappreciated Irish albums? Shane was joined on the show this morning by Pat Carty, Writer for Hot Press Magazine and Broadcaster.

The State has run out of accommodation for new Ukrainian refugees and asylum seekers and will have to pause the intake of new arrivals. The Citywest conference centre is accommodating more than 1,000 people who have fled the war in Ukraine and is now at full capacity, with no immediate contingency in place. Rebecca Moynihan is a Labour Senator and Spokesperson on Housing and spoke to Aidenn on Newstalk Breakfast this morning.

Sinn Fein could be on course to form the next government certainly if the polls are to be believed. The latest Irish Times/Ipsos poll increase its support to 36%, a record for this particular poll. The cost of living crisis has hit the current coalition government with Fianna Fáil at 20% (down three); Fine Gael at 18% (down four) and the Green Party unchanged at 3% Pat Leahy is Political Editor of the Irish Times spoke to Shane with more on this results of this latest poll.

The euro dropped below parity against the US dollar yesterday for the first time since 2002 amid concerns of a potential recession in Europe. Dan O’Brien Chief Economist at the Institute of International and European affairs and Columnist with the Business Post spoke to Aideen on the show this morning.

Boohoo, the fast fashion brand has axed their free returns policy and will now charge customers. But where do our clothes go when we return them to the retailer? Emma Gleeson, Writer and Author of “Stuff Happens” spoke to Newstalk Breakfast with more on this.