Drivetime
RTE Ireland
Highlights from the daily news programme with Sarah McInerney and Cormac Ó hEadhra. Featuring all the latest stories, interviews and special reports. Listen live Monday to Friday at 4.30pm on RTÉ Radio 1.
Location:
Dublin, Ireland
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Highlights from the daily news programme with Sarah McInerney and Cormac Ó hEadhra. Featuring all the latest stories, interviews and special reports. Listen live Monday to Friday at 4.30pm on RTÉ Radio 1.
Twitter:
@DrivetimeRTE
Language:
English
Contact:
RTÉ Donnybrook Dublin 4 185 071 5105
Website:
http://www.rte.ie/
Email:
drivetime@rte.ie
Episodes
Emergency response unit on M7/N7
11/10/2025
Mark Wall, Labour TD for Kildare South
Duration:00:02:35
Housing in Austria
11/10/2025
Michaela Kauer, Director of the Liaison Office in the City of Vienna
Duration:00:11:53
Breast cancer screening
11/10/2025
Dr. Caoimhe Hartley, GP with a specialist interest in Women's Health
Duration:00:07:17
Birds in lockdown
11/10/2025
Nigel Renaghan, poultry farmer with his wife Bernice in Clontibret in Co. Monaghan; James Greeves, advisor to poultry farmers here and abroad; Caitriona Redmond, Consumer Columnist with the Irish Examiner.
Duration:00:15:10
Why do people love chillis?
11/10/2025
Lily Foran, chef and owner of Picado Mexican
Duration:00:11:55
Dr. Annie Farmer, a victim of Jeffrey Epstein, on her experience
11/10/2025
Dr. Annie Farmer, victim of Jeffrey Epstein along with her sister in the 1990s
Duration:00:13:31
BBC Director General Resigns
11/10/2025
David Puttnam, film producer, director and former peer in the House of Lords
Duration:00:07:24
Government enters the secondhand market for housing
11/10/2025
Report from Una Kelly; Trevor Grant, Chairperson of the Association of Irish Mortgage Advisers; Ber Grogan, Executive Director of the Simon Communities of Ireland; Regina Mangan, CEO of Liberty Blue Estate Agents Waterford
Duration:00:17:32
Cancer Medicines
11/5/2025
People Before Profit TD Richard Boyd Barrett has raised the issue of investment in particular radiation oncology machines, and a concern that this equipment is not being renewed quickly enough. For more on this Drivetime speaks to Prof John Armstrong President of the Irish Society of Radiation Oncology
Duration:00:06:42
Bird Flu
11/5/2025
Ireland’s poultry industry is on high alert again today after a case of highly pathogenic avian influenza (bird flu) was confirmed on a turkey farm in County Carlow, Martin Heydon, Minister for Agriculture, Food, Fisheries and the Marine is on Drivetime to discuss this.
Duration:00:11:45
Do Dublin Crime stats reflect the feeling of people in the city
11/5/2025
The Dublin Inquirer has carried out a survey about the perception of crime in the capital, Dublin Inquirer editor Sam Tranum speaks to Drivetime, followed by Sinn Fein Cllr Daithí Doolan and Fine Gael TD James Geoghehen
Duration:00:13:36
Should we have a coffee limit?
11/4/2025
Health experts have warned that caffeine can keep drivers awake but too much can actually cause tremors, poor decisions and slower reactions. For some expert advice on how much caffeine is too much, Heather Leeson, Nutritional Therapist at Positive Nutrition.
Duration:00:05:04
Review of the age of criminal responsibility
11/4/2025
With Seán Egan BL, ICCL’s procedural rights fellow
Duration:00:06:35
Sudan: UN chief urges end to 'nightmare of violence'
11/4/2025
GOAL Interim Country Director for Sudan, Ben Reynolds
Duration:00:05:07
Minister James Lawless
11/4/2025
James Lawless, Minister for Higher and Further Education
Duration:00:14:41
Parents to complete primary school survey
11/4/2025
Dr Seamus Conboy, Director of Schools with the Education and Training Boards Ireland (ETBI)
Duration:00:07:28
Criminal Assets Bureau sells millions worth of criminal assets
11/4/2025
Detective Chief Superintendent Michael Gubbins, Head of the Criminal Assets Bureau
Duration:00:12:27
Are schools turning our children off reading?
11/4/2025
Conor Murphy, Teacher at Skibbereen Community School and Elaina Ryan, CEO of Children's Books Ireland
Duration:00:07:20
Government proposal to charge those seeking international protection rent, if they're working
11/3/2025
Minister O'Callaghan and his colleagues on the Cabinet Sub-Committee on Migration will meet this evening to discuss proposed contributions of between 15 euro, and 238 euro, per week depending on their earnings. To debate this Fianna Fáil Senator Dee Ryan and Sinead Gibney, Social Democrats TD for Dublin Rathdown.
Duration:00:16:16
The number of women having children later in life has reached the highest level according to the CSO
11/3/2025
There were 408 babies born to women aged over 45 in 2023, up 80.5% compared to 2013. Professor Rhona O'Mahony Consultant Obstetrician & Gynaecologist and Former Master of National Maternity Hospital.
Duration:00:07:36