All things considered, are the state's water systems in 'a desperate state?' Ciara and Shane discuss.

Bans on smartphone and social media access alone fail to equip children for healthy use of such technology. 

That’s according to a new study published by the British Medical Journal.

The research was led by Dr Victoria A Goodyear of the Institute for Mental Health at the University of Birmingham in England, who joined NewsTalk Breakfast earlier to discuss.

A powerful earthquake has rattled Myanmar and neighbouring Thailand, trapping dozens of workers in a collapsed skyscraper in Bangkok, where a state of emergency has been declared. 

Tommy Walker,a Journalist in Bangkok joins NewsTalk Breakfast to go through more.

A draft audit report into 561 hip surgeries on children since 2021 found 79 per cent of the surgeries at Cappagh hospital and 60 per cent at Temple Street “did not meet the threshold for surgery”. 

Sinn Féin TD Pearse Doherty raised the issue in the Dáil yesterday and joined NewsTalk Breakfast earlier to discuss further.

According to the latest residential market review from leading property advisors DNG, the average price of a second-hand home in Dublin is fast approaching €600,000. 

Marian Finnegan, Managing Director of Sherry Fitzgerald joins NewsTalk Breakfast to go through the latest on these figures.

The Dáil descended into chaos on Tuesday, but what is driving our politicians to behave this way?

What does behavioural science say about it?

Leslie Shoemaker, Counselling Psychologist and Lecturer in TU Dublin joins NewsTalk Breakfast to speak about what has our politicians acting out of sorts.

With Mother’s Day on Sunday who better to talk to about the enigmatic and iconic Irish mammy than Jen Hogan, Irish Times Columnist and Host of the “Conversations with Parents” Podcast.

‘Tanning TikTok’ has seen a resurgence of the use of sunbeds among Gen Z despite well-known health risks.

Professor Seamus O’Reilly, Consultant Medical Oncologist in Cork University Hospital joins Ciara for NewsTalk Breakfast to go through this shocking resurgence.

Migrants are more likely to be working than Irish-born, but many experience poverty and high housing costs  - that’s according to new research from the ESRI today. 

For more on this Shane is joined by Teresa Buczkowska, a Migrant rights campaigner.

All things considered, do we worry too much about our kids, even when they're grown up? Shane and Ciara discuss.