Drivetime

At organised protests throughout the country, thousands of secondary school students took to the streets to express their outrage at the older generation, which they say has been failing to address the threat of climate change. Mary spoke to protest organisers Conal O'Boyle and Maisie Morgan-Sutton.

This week Fergal Keane has been looking back on a corresponding week in Northern Ireland in 1988. Twelve people died in the events surrounding that week, and two of the most shocking were those of two British Army corporals.

Richard V. Reeves is the author of "Dream Hoarders: How the American Upper Middle Class Is Leaving Everyone Else in the Dust, Why That Is a Problem, and What to Do About It" and he spoke to Mary about an FBI sting exposing how wealthy parents in the US are said to be buying their children a place in top universities.

As St. Patrick's Day approaches this weekend Myles Dungan poses the question, did our patron saint actually bring Christianity to Ireland?

With Irish men and women living longer, more active lives, many of us will continue to use our cars long into old age. But when is it no longer safe to keep driving? This was the question up for discussion at an Older Road Users event in Mayo today and our reporter John Cooke was there.

Ahead of more voting in Westminster, Mary was joined by Brian Hayes, Fine Gael MEP, Dawn Foster, Columnist with the Guardian, Noel Whelan, Columnist with the Irish Times and Europe Editor Tony Connelly.

The Northern Ireland Prosecution Service has announced that one former British soldier is to be charged with the murders of two civilians, and the attempted murder of four others, at a civil rights march in Derry on the 30th of January, 1972. Mary spoke to author Douglas Murray, political commentator Patricia MacBride and Channel 4's Alex Thomson.

March 15th marks the eighth anniversary of the start of the uprising in Syria. Since the start of the conflict in 2011 over 500,000 people have been killed, 6.5 million people are now refugees, and within Syria itself, more than six million are displaced. Drivetime's Della Kilroy reports.

This week, Fergal Keane has been looking back at a week in Northern Ireland in March 1988. It was the week of the Gibraltar funerals, and yesterday we heard about Michael Stone's grenade attack on the crowd in Milltown Cemetery, which killed three people and wounded more than 50. Today, we hear about the mood in Belfast after that attack.

A trebling of the price of beef in the UK is just one of the tariffs announced by the UK government today if a no deal Brexit becomes a reality. For more on this Mary spoke to Phelim O'Neill, Markets Specialist with the Irish Farmers Journal and Pat McCormack, President of Irish Creamery Milk Suppliers Association.