Newstalk Breakfast

The parents of Harvey Morrison Sherratt have said they were “shocked” at a whistleblower’s claims that Children’s Health Ireland had removed their son from its active spinal surgery waiting list after it wrongly determined he was a “palliative” patient.  

The claims were published in the Sunday Times yesterday. We discussed further with  David Cullinane, Sinn Féin Spokesperson for Health. 

Objectors will have to foot six-figure legal bills for successful judicial review cases in a new move being brought to the Cabinet to speed up the supply of infrastructure and housing.. 

We discuss this further with Robin Mandal, Vice Chair of the Dublin Democratic Planning Alliance and former president of the Royal Institute of the Architect. 

The Director General of the BBC, Tim Davie, and the Chief Executive of news, Deborah Turness, have resigned following criticism that a BBC documentary misled viewers by editing a speech by US President Donald Trump. 

We get the latest on this with London Based Journalist, Vincent McAviney.

After 14 years in office, we have reached the final day of Michael D Higgins’ time as Uachtarán na hÉireann. But what sort of legacy is he leaving behind? 

Joining Shane to discuss is Dr Eoin O’Malley, Teaches Politics at Dublin City University Fergus Finlay, Columnist with The Irish Examiner and Former CEO of Barnardos. 

Gardaí have renewed their appeal for information on the 1995 disappearance and murder of Jo Jo Dullard. 

 Marking 30 years since she went missing, they say the case remains under active investigation and review by the Serious Crime Review Team.  With more on this Ciara spoke to Criminologist, Trina O’Connor.

Transport for Ireland currently has five applications for smartphones, which include a journey planner, a leap card top-up, taxi driver database, an app for public transport tickets, and an app for local services in parts of Mayo, Limerick and Kerry. 

But is it time that the TFI rolled all of these apps into one single, user-friendly platform? That's the call from Fine Gael TD for Dublin Fingal West, Grace Boland.

The UN climate summit, Cop30, begins today, with a packed agenda up for discussion. Our Reporter in Brazil Jessica Woodlock gave us a run through what we can expect from the conference this week. 

 Celebrity Traitors UK became the most-watched TV event of the year. To talk about last night’s finale was Scott Bryan, BBC TV Critic.

The national screening programme for breast cancer is projected to miss its screening targets for a third consecutive year.  Dr Michael McCarthy, Consultant medical oncologist and President of the Irish society of medical Oncology discuss the missed targets with Ciara.

Remembrance Sunday is this weekend would you wear a poppy? Shane and Ciara gave their view.