Highlights From Newstalk Breakfast

US President Donald Trump has said the EU was "very smart" in holding off on inflicting tit-for-tat tariffs against the US.  During a cabinet meeting he also said he would love to get a deal with China to end the escalating trade war.  We get reaction to this with Olof Gill, European Commission Spokesperson for Trade and Economic Security.

Shoplifting has surged in the country's second largest city, with the number of reported incidents rising by 86% in two decades. Shane took to the streets of Cork to speak to a business owner affected.   

“The climate crisis is too important to be left to politicians alone”. Those are the words Oxfam CEO Jim Clarken, who will be attending the Ground Up Climate Justice Forum in Cork today.  Jim spoke to Newstalk Breakfast this morning.

Six people including three children were killed after a sightseeing helicopter crashed into the Hudson River in New York yesterday. We get the latest on this with David Smith, Washington Bureau Chief for the Guardian.

A surge in attention deficit hyperactivity disorder diagnoses among children is driving spiraling waiting-lists for Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services. That’s according to the Minister of State for Mental Health, Mary Butler, who revealed that up to 70 per cent of referrals to one Camhs team in Cork are due to ADHD.We discuss this further with Ken Kilbride CEO ADHD Ireland.

Bosses should stop calling so many meetings that waste their staff’s time, so says Frank Coughlan, Irish Independent columnist. Frank explained why to Newstalk Breakfast this morning.  

A report by the Land Development Agency has found that almost 15,000 homes could be constructed by 2032 on state-owned land.  For more on this we speak to Carol Tallan, CEO of Property District and author of Irish Property Buyers Handbook annual.

US President Donald Trump yesterday announced a 90-day pause as part of his tariff plan but was also raising the tariff rate for China to 125pc. The EU and other countries who were facing into tariffs of between 10pc and 47pc are now going to pay a 10pc baseline tariff for 90 days.  We discuss this development with Joe Lynam, Newstalk’s Business Editor and also Dan O’Brien, Chief Economist at the Institute of International and European affairs and Columnist with The Currency. 

People Before Profit TD, Paul Murphy has proposed that there should be open access to university. Meaning that degrees are made freely available to all, with no or limited points restrictions. Paul spoke to Newstalk Breakfast this morning.

Justice Minister Jim O’Callaghan will not attend the Garda Representative Association’s annual conference this year. The GRA once again did not invite Commissioner Drew Harris. We discuss further with Christy Galligan, Former Garda Sergeant. 

President Donald Trump has paused reciprocal tariffs for any country that did not retaliate with their own tariffs. Meaning everywhere but China is getting a small reprieve.   Speaking to reporters outside the White House, President Trump explained why he decided on a 90 day pause. We discuss this further with Joe Lynam, Newstalk Business Editor and David Smith, Washington Bureau Chief from The Guardian.

While we’ve all been enjoying the warm weather, Uisce Eireann are warning people to remain mindful of their water supply during the sunny spell.    We heard from Margaret Attridge, Head of Water Operations at Uisce Eireann. 

Esther McCarthy, Lifestyle Editor and Saturday Weekend Magazine Columnist with The Irish Examiner, joins us now for our new weekly Red Carpet Roundup.

A new transport strategy for Limerick is looking to possibly axe one-way traffic on some city centre streets in a major urban shakeup.  Speaking to Newstalk Breakfast about the plans was Mayor of Limerick John Moran.

US President Donald Trump's tariffs on dozens of countries take effect from today, including massive 104 percent duties on Chinese goods. In response, the EU plans to charge import duties of up to 25 per cent on a number of products sold from the US. We discuss this further with John Fitzgerald Adjunct Professor in Economics at Trinity College Dublin.

Special Advocate for Survivors of Institutional Abuse Patricia Carey has expressed "deep disappointment" after two out of eight religious bodies offered financial contributions towards the cost of the mother and Baby Institutions Payment Scheme.Patricia spoke to Jonathan this morning on the show.

A warning about the dangers of overprescribing from UTV in the 1980s. But has overdiagnosis now become a real problem we need to address?  That’s the question neurologist Dr. Suzanne O’Sullivan explores in her new book “The Age of Diagnosis”.

A New initiative has been launched to help young people recognise “problematic behaviour” in a bid to combat sexual harassment on nights out.  The free-of-charge ‘All Right All Night’ course is being run by University College Cork. We hear all about the course content with Louise Crowley, Professor in Family Law at the School of Law at University College Cork. 

One week on from President Trump’s ‘liberation day and China faces a 104% tariff on US imports from Today.   The European Union is to hit back at the United States with its own tariffs, targeting a range of goods from US soybeans, to steel, oranges, chainsaws and washing machines. We discuss further with Kate English, Chief Economist with Deloitte. 

A woman who was subjected to “a predatory, violent rape” by a young man at a party when  she was just 18 has said that her “healing is going to begin now” after her attacker was refused an appeal against a seven-year sentence.   Ciara Mangan spoke to Shane this morning on the show.