Friday Riff: Gardai on buses is it needed? Ciara and Jonathan discussed this morning.

This weekend, Gardaí will board buses across Dublin as part of a commitment to improve safety on public transport, after anti-social incidents have more than doubled in the last five years.  

  We discuss this and more with Blake Boland, Spokesperson for Dublin Bus. 

Festival season Kicks off our own Ciara Treacy talks all things festival for 2025.

Parental intuition can predict child’s serious illness before doctors. That’s according to new research published in the journal Lancet Child and Adolescent Health. We discuss these findings with  Monaghan Based GP Illona Duffy.

The White House has said that Israel had accepted US President Donald Trump's proposal for a Gaza ceasefire, while discussions are continuing with Hamas.  

Joining us for more on this is Alistair Bunkall Sky News Middle East Correspondent.  

Ireland will need specialised rehabilitation clinics and detox services to deal with phone addiction within the next five years. That’s according to Professor Colin O’Gara, Addiction Psychiatrist at St John of Gods Hospital and Clinical Professor of Psychiatry at UCD .

Tánaiste Simon Harris is set to contact the Israeli government over what he termed as an "utterly unacceptable" attack on Irish peacekeeping troops in southern Lebanon. 

 Joining us to discuss this is Cathal Berry Independent TD and Former Army Ranger.

Kinahan associate Sean McGovern has been charged with murder and directing organised crime at the Special Criminal Court, after he was extradited from the United Arab Emirates.

We get the latest on this with Fank Greaney, Newstalk’s Courts Correspondent. 

Ireland’s largest gardening festival, Bloom kicks off today in the Phoenix Park.   

This year, Bloom will launch ‘A Taste of Bloom, curated by Neven’, a very special new dining experience planned for this year’s festival in collaboration with Chef Proprietor of McNean House, Neven Maguire. Neven chatted to Newstalk Breakfast this morning.

The head of UNWRA, the United Nations relief and works agency for Palestine has said the "clock is ticking towards famine" in Gaza as he warned that the new US-backed aid distribution model is a waste of resources and a distraction from "atrocities".  

We heard from Jonathan Fowler, Spokesperson with UNWRA.