Barack Obama will visit Ireland in September and people can pay two thousand euro for a photo opportunity with him.  

With us to continue the discussion is someone who might know the former US President a bit better than us. Henry Healy, Moneygall native and eighth cousin of Barack Obama.

Almost half of families going without or cutting down on basic essentials. So says Barnardos in their Cost of Living 2025 report. We discussed the findings with Barnardos National Policy Manager, Stephen Moffatt.

The European Union is to be given an extra three weeks to negotiate an agreement with the United States, to avert an escalating trade war between the two sides.  

Joining us now to discuss this further was Chief Economist at the Institute of International and European affairs and Columnist with The Currency, Dan O’Brien. 

New names for the Áras are emerging every week, but what if the next president of this Republic was, in fact, you? 

That’s the proposal of our guest Joe Humphreys, Assistant News Editor at The Irish Times and writer of the Unthinkable philosophy column. 

Former US President Barack Obama visit to Ireland. An evening with the former US President will take places in the 3Arena on Friday 23rd September along with a €2k photo opportunity. Ciara and Shane discussed this morning.

A new domestic violence disclosure scheme could expose women and girls to an “unacceptable” risk of further abuse. That's  according to an internal Department of Justice analysis. 

To discuss further was Ellen Coyne, Political Correspondent with Irish times.

There are fresh calls to scrap parking charges at Irish hospitals, after new figures revealed staff and patients paid nearly €19 million for spaces last year.  These figures were obtained by Labour’s social protection spokesperson and Kildare South TD Mark Wall who spoke to Ciara this morning.

US President Donald Trump hosted Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu for White House talks where the Israeli Prime Minister he has nominated Trump for the Nobel Peace Prize, presenting the US president with a letter he sent to the prize committee. 

 We get the latest on this with Gregg Carlstrom, Middle East Correspondent for The Economist. 

More than 1,800 teaching posts were left vacant this year, while many schools in the greater Dublin area are already struggling to fill positions for September. 

 That’s according to a review of teacher payroll from the Department of Education, and we heard from Michael Gillespie, General Secretary TUI. 

It’s a court case that the world has been watching. Australian mother, Erin Patterson, has been found guilty of murdering her estranged husband's parents and an aunt by serving them a beef wellington laced with poisonous mushrooms 

Marta Pascual Juanola, Crime reporter with The Age gave us the latest on this case.