Drivetime

With 10 million passengers expected this summer, Dublin Airport is still promising speed and smooth journeys. DAA CEO Kenny Jacobs spoke tO Cormac.

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On Monday it was confirmed that a 71 year old Irish woman, Deirdre 'D' Murphy was being held in Israel fighting a deportation order after being arrested in the West Bank. For the latest on this Deirdre's son Dale Ryan.

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The Department of Finance released Exchequer figures for the first five months of the year. These show that taxes collected by the State rose by 3.6% to €36.4bn. For more on this economist Seamus Coffey.

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For more reaction to Shane Scanlan, CEO of the Alliance Supporting Nursing Homes who represent those in the private nursing home sector, Paul McAuliffe, Fianna Fail TD for Dublin North West and Padraig Rice, the Social Democrats' health spokesperson, and chair of the Oireachtas Health Committee.

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The scheme encourages employers to hire people with disabilities ..by providing financial support and can help cover the cost of adapting a role for the employee. For more on this Minister for Social Protection Dara Calleary.

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Taoiseach Micheál Martin has said he hopes the suspension of funding by the National Treatment Purchase Fund to Children’s Health Ireland will be a temporary one. Funding was suspended following “serious concerns” over a 2021 CHI report. To discuss this Sinn Fein’s Health Spokesperson David Cullinane.

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Surgeon Victoria Rose has just returned to the UK today after working as a surgeon in war-torn Nasser hospital in Southern Gaza for over three weeks. She worked 14 hour days treating casualties from Israeli attacks, while dealing with severe shortages caused by the humanitarian blockade.

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The outgoing mayor of Derry City said this week that the role has been the greatest honour of her life, even though it came with relentless abuse. Lilian Seenoi Barr was Northern Ireland's first black lord mayor she spoke to Cormac about how she faced "unprecedented levels" of racially-motivated online abuse during her term in office.

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More than half of women's refuges across the country that we have contacted are currently full to capacity, while some refuges reported having to turn down hundreds of accommodation requests last year due to lack of space. Our reporter Una Kelly tells us more.

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Sunny had spent 16 years in a Florida prison for the murder of two police officers - some of those years on death row. She was released from jail in 1992. Cormac and Sarah speak to Abe Bonowitz of "Death Penalty Action" in the United States and Ellen McGarraghan, an author and private investigator.

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