Newstalk Breakfast

The Oireachtas Joint Committee on Agriculture and Food meet today to discuss the impacts of greenways, railways and roadways on agriculture.  The Irish Farmer’s Association has called the compulsory purchase of farmland for the development of this infrastructure as ‘fundamentally inappropriate.’ 

Anton discusses this further with Paul O’Brien, Chair of the IFA Infrastructure Project Team.

We take a closer look at some of the stories you may have missed in the news this morning. Joining Anton this morning was Jennifer Keane, founder of paygap.ie. 

An Post is bringing back its hugely popular ‘Letter to My Future Self’ campaign after more than 40,000 people took part last year. Head of Marketing Communications at An Post, Richard Miley explains the details about the campaign.

It has been 6 months since Australia introduced its world-first social media ban for under-16s.  

Dr Danielle Einstein, Sydney Based Clinical Psychologist, Researcher and Author of the Einstein Report which laid out evidence for the ban joined Anton with an update on the progress it has made. 

The US military has said it has "completed" its retaliatory strikes against Iran over the downing of an attack helicopter. The day’s developments have thrown precarity onto the truce in the Gulf, which was originally announced on the 8th of April.  

We get the latest from Borzou Daragahi, Long time Foreign Correspondent and Founder of the Badlands Newsletter.

Several homes across Belfast have been set on fire and a bus lit ablaze in protests after a man was charged with attempted murder following a serious incident in the north of the city on Monday night. 

Anton get the latest from James McCarthy, Political Reporter with Belfast Live and the Daily Mirror in Northern Ireland. Also Anton spoke to Deirdre Hargey, Sinn Féin MLA for South Belfast.

A senior figure in the Kinahan organised crime gang has been sentenced to 24 years in prison by the Special Criminal Court. Forty-year-old Sean McGovern pleaded guilty to two counts of directing the activities of a criminal organisation during the Hutch-Kinahan feud, in which he was also shot. 

We get reaction from Former Garda Commissioner, Michael O’Sullivan. 

The National Transport Authority has revealed it is spending nearly €20,000 a week on the storage of 98 electric buses that have still not been deployed to the national fleet due to a lack of charging infrastructure in Galway and Dublin depots. 

We get the details from Aisling Moloney Political Reporter, Irish Independent.  

14 cardiac surgeries, including two pediatric ones, have been cancelled due to a strike by 25 perfusionists.Fórsa have said this is due to ongoing disputes over pay links between them and medical scientists. 

Speaking to Anton was Linda Kelly, Fórsa National Secretary. 

Sinn Féin is introducing a motion today calling on the Government to stop the Republic of Ireland’s Nations League games against Israel scheduled for later this year. To debate this further Anton was joined by Mark Ward, Sinn Fein TD for Dublin Mid-West and Alan Shatter, Former Minister of Justice and board member of the Israel Council on Foreign Relations.