Drivetime

Reporter John Cooke has been out and about along the Waterford Quays to meet with voters.

Drivetime is on the road again and today Cormac is in the Waterford constituency. The candidates in studio are Sinn Féin's Conor McGuinness, Marc Ó Cathasaigh of the Green Party, Independent Matt Shanahan, Social Democrats Mary Roche, Fianna Fáil's Mary Butler and Fine Gael's John Cummins.

"Evolving Manhood: Attitudes, Influence, and Well-being Among Irish Men” was launched today as part of Women's Aid 50 year anniversary. Sarah speaks to CEO of Women’s Aid Sarah Benson and Richard Hogan, psychotherapist and author.

Former Commissioner of the New York City Department of Transportation, Janette Sadik-Khan is here in Dublin to address the city's transportation stakeholders and business community.

Food prices in Gaza have surged following the looting of nearly 100 aid trucks, compounding an already dire food crisis caused by over a year of conflict between Israel and Hamas. We hear from World Health Organisation spokesperson Dr Margaret Harris.

Cormac is in RTE's Cork studio where we're looking at the constituency of Cork North Central. The canditates in studio are Fianna Fail's Pádraig O'Sullivan; Fine Gael's Colm Burke; Sinn Fein's Joe Lynch; People Before Profit-Solidarity Mick Barry and Ken O’Flynn of Independent Ireland.

Ukraine has fired UK supplied long-range Storm Shadow missiles at Russian targets for the first time, the BBC understands. We hear from Concern’s Head of Emergencies Ros O’Sullivan in Kyiv and get the latest military developments from reporter and presenter Lewis Goodall.

Time and again, actors seem to fail to make the grade when to comes to speaking in an Irish accent. According to research that has been published in the journal of Evolutionary Human Sciences, we Irish are particularly adept at figuring out a fake accent. To tell us more, one of the researchers Jonathan Goodman from the University of Cambridge.

Russia has claimed that Ukrainian troops have launched a missile attack against a Russian border region. For the latest on the escalation of tensions between Russia and Ukraine, James Waterhouse, BBC's Kyiv correspondent & Hamish De Bretton-Gordon, former commander of the UK & NATO Chemical, Biological, Radiological and Nuclear Forces

A leading hotelier claimed today the Government here has a “complete lack of understanding of how business works” and is turning Ireland into another Switzerland in terms of prices. With Des O’Dowd, owner of Inchydoney Island Lodge and Spa in West Cork and Greg Ennis, Deputy General Secretary with responsibility for the private sector in SIPTU