Newstalk Breakfast

Today is the deadline for the Rotunda Hospital to provide the HSE with an audit of all private work being carried out by consultants on public only contracts in the hospital. It follows revelations at an Oireachtas committee last week that this practice is continuing despite a direction it was to stop.  

Anton discusses further with Joe Neville, Fine Gael TD for Kildare North.

More than half of Gen Z have delayed major life decisions due to their financial situation. That’s according to a new survey by Deloitte out this morning that shows how the housing and cost of living crises are shaping the lives of Irish young people. 

Newstalk’s Sarah Madden has been looking into this research.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky received the backing of the leaders of the UK, France and Germany in calling for direct ceasefire talks between Russia and Ukraine 

It comes after Russian forces deliberately struck a storage facility for spent nuclear fuel near Ukraine's Chornobyl power plant, according to Zelensky. 

Speaking to Anton was Sean Bell, Former Fighter pilot and now Military Analyst and Co-Host of the Red Matrix podcast. 

Children as young as ten years old are developing unhealthy obsessions with having what they perceive to be ‘perfect skin’, leading to complex daily cosmetic routines using numerous products. That has led researchers to coin a new term cosmeticorexia to define this obsession. Professor Giovanni Damiana is an Associate Professor of Dermatology at the University of Milan explains more.

Loyalty cards are they becoming more of a necessity rather than a choice when we see the price difference having one makes. And does that bring up issues when it comes to GDPR and supermarkets processing our data off loyalty cards?  

Anton discussed further with Olga Cronin, Senior Policy Officer with the Irish Council of Civil Liberties.

A gangland criminal found dead in garda custody was the chief suspect in the knife attack on Thomas Griffin last weekend who died while trying to escape across the River Liffey.  

For more on this Anton was joined by Robin Schiller, Senior Journalist, Irish Independent .

We take a closer look at some of the stories you may have missed in the news this morning. Joining Anton this morning was Patti Shields   Vice Chair Democrats Abroad in Ireland.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky received the backing of the leaders of the UK, France and Germany in calling for direct ceasefire talks between Russia and Ukraine 

It comes after Russian forces deliberately struck a storage facility for spent nuclear fuel near Ukraine's Chornobyl power plant, according to Zelensky. For the latest on this we heard from Emmanuelle Chaze, Ukraine Correspondent for France 24. 

 Areas that were previously litter blackspots have made progress in the latest Irish Business Against Litter Survey where Sligo once more comes out as the cleanest town in the country. To go through the results was Conor Horgan the Spokesperson for Irish Business Against Litter .

Israel says more Iranian missiles have been fired toward its territory this morning. It comes after Iran fired missiles towards Israel yesterday, the first time since a ceasefire paused hostilities in April. 

Anton gets the latest with Mark Weiss, Israel Correspondent with the Irish Times.