Drivetime-logo

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

Networks:

RTE Ireland

Description:

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
Ask host to enable sharing for playback control

Where to go in Ireland if you're staying home this summer

4/22/2026
Thom Breathnach, travel writer

Duration:00:06:59

Ask host to enable sharing for playback control

Can you safely introduce teens to alcohol?

4/22/2026
Mary McCarthy, Irish Independent columnist and Dr Sabina Brennan, psychologist and neuroscientist

Duration:00:10:22

Ask host to enable sharing for playback control

Airlines cut flights and raise prices

4/22/2026
Simon Calder, Travel Editor with the London Independent

Duration:00:11:34

Ask host to enable sharing for playback control

Leo Varadkar apologises for urban/rural comments

4/22/2026
Fionnan Sheahan, Ireland Editor with the Irish Independent

Duration:00:05:45

Ask host to enable sharing for playback control

Trump looks to extend ceasefire with Iran indefinitely

4/22/2026
John Nichols, Executive Editor of The Nation

Duration:00:04:16

Ask host to enable sharing for playback control

Pricey tickets announced for Ryder Cup at Adare Manor

4/22/2026
Report from John Cooke

Duration:00:09:02

Ask host to enable sharing for playback control

Before We Die Campaign - Adult children with intellectual disability

4/22/2026
Jane Johnstone

Duration:00:11:47

Ask host to enable sharing for playback control

What's in the EU's energy package?

4/22/2026
Tony Connelly, RTÉ's Europe Editor

Duration:00:10:03

Ask host to enable sharing for playback control

Should National Lottery ads be moved to after the 9pm watershed?

4/22/2026
Aubrey McCarthy, Founder and Chairman of Tiglin

Duration:00:06:12

Ask host to enable sharing for playback control

Calls for more opportunities to work from home amid energy price shock

4/22/2026
Report from Una Kelly followed by a debate between Mark Wall, Labour Party spokesperson on Social Protection, Children, Disability and Equality & John Barry, founder and a director of MSS – The HR People and ISME National Council member

Duration:00:13:43

Ask host to enable sharing for playback control

The peril of parent group chats

4/21/2026
Rebecca Horan, broadcaster and journalist

Duration:00:06:12

Ask host to enable sharing for playback control

Football is being spoiled by ‘time wasting’

4/21/2026
Dr Robert Butler, Co-director of Centre of Sports Economics and Law

Duration:00:06:49

Ask host to enable sharing for playback control

Fed Chair nominee Kevin Warsh says he won't be Trump's 'sock puppet'

4/21/2026
David Smith, Washington DC Bureau Chief for The Guardian

Duration:00:02:36

Ask host to enable sharing for playback control

Downing Street exerted pressure to clear Mandelson - sacked UK official

4/21/2026
Kevin Maguire, Associate Editor for the Daily Mirror

Duration:00:07:18

Ask host to enable sharing for playback control

Trump's deadline for ceasefire with Iran looms

4/21/2026
Amber Phillips, Washington Post Political Reporter

Duration:00:08:43

Ask host to enable sharing for playback control

HSE formally apologises to Aylward family 22 years on

4/21/2026
Report from Barry Lenihan

Duration:00:10:58

Ask host to enable sharing for playback control

Is there an urban and rural divide in Ireland?

4/21/2026
Report from Una Kelly; Edmond Phelan, ICSA Rural Development Chair; and Alan Matthews, Emeritus Professor of Agricultural Policy at Trinity College Dublin

Duration:00:16:31

Ask host to enable sharing for playback control

Govt downgrades growth forecasts but predicts higher surplus

4/21/2026
Mary Regan, Political Editor for the Irish Independent

Duration:00:09:16

Ask host to enable sharing for playback control

Modular homes - more solutions or more problems?

4/21/2026
James Geoghegan, Fine Gael TD for Dublin Bay South and Conor Sheehan, Labour TD for Limerick City

Duration:00:16:14

Ask host to enable sharing for playback control

Minister Darragh O'Brien on home energy upgrades and the current state of fuel supplies

4/21/2026
Darragh O'Brien, Minister for Climate, Energy and the Environment and Minister for Transport

Duration:00:13:35