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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.

Location:

Dublin, Ireland

Networks:

RTE 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.

Language:

English

Contact:

RTÉ Donnybrook Dublin 4 185 071 5105


Episodes
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Top series' to watch before you die

11/11/2025
Dave Hanratty, host of 'No Encore' podcast

Duration:00:09:35

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Do singletons pay more for everything?

11/11/2025
Édaein O'Connell, journalist

Duration:00:05:24

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Be wary of Buy Now, Pay Later coming up to Christmas

11/11/2025
Darragh Gallagher, Head of Communications from bonkers.ie

Duration:00:05:24

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Whooping Cough Breakthrough

11/11/2025
Kingston Mills, Professor of Experimental Immunology, School of Biochemistry and Immunology at TCD

Duration:00:05:33

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Ryanair scraps boarding passes

11/11/2025
Report from Una Kelly

Duration:00:08:02

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Dublin Bus Questions

11/11/2025
Billy Hann, CEO of Dublin Bus

Duration:00:11:30

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Avian Flu Update

11/11/2025
Nigel Renaghan, poultry farmer in Clontibret, Co. Monaghan

Duration:00:09:06

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A rape survivor on his ordeal, and how he has rebuilt his life in Australia

11/11/2025
Dylan Gallagher, who now lives in Perth and is taking part in the ‘Signs of Hope Campaign" with the Dublin Rape Crisis Centre.

Duration:00:10:34

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Catherine Connolly elected as 10th President of Ireland

11/11/2025
Catherine Connolly received the official seal of office this afternoon as President of Ireland. Barry Lenihan reports from the ceremony at Dublin Castle; John Cooke has been around Limerick getting the reaction of citizens; and we also hear from Senator Eileen Flynn and law professor David Kenny.

Duration:00:24:25

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Emergency response unit on M7/N7

11/10/2025
Mark Wall, Labour TD for Kildare South

Duration:00:02:35

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Housing in Austria

11/10/2025
Michaela Kauer, Director of the Liaison Office in the City of Vienna

Duration:00:11:53

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Breast cancer screening

11/10/2025
Dr. Caoimhe Hartley, GP with a specialist interest in Women's Health

Duration:00:07:17

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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

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Why do people love chillis?

11/10/2025
Lily Foran, chef and owner of Picado Mexican

Duration:00:11:55

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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

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BBC Director General Resigns

11/10/2025
David Puttnam, film producer, director and former peer in the House of Lords

Duration:00:07:24

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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

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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

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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

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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