Dublin has moved to level three of Living with Covid 19 - with some extra measures also being implemented.

Home gatherings, organised events, holidays, communions, confirmations, weddings, funerals, and indoor dining are all affected. 

People living in Dublin are being told not to leave unless it’s essential while people outside the capital are being asked to stay away.

Dr Kevin Kelleher, HSE’s Assistant National Director for Public Health and member of NHPET joined Susan to discuss.

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Dr Nuala O’Connor, ICGP Lead Advisor on Antibiotic Resistance and Antimicrobial Resistance and Infection Control Team, joined Susan Keogh to discuss the rise in Covid-19 cases, how Dublin can try and reduce transmissions, what to expect from the road map to be announced by the Government this week and of course Covid testing. 

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Yesterday CAO offers were made to students around the country after a Leaving Cert year like no other.

Entry points for most courses increased across all colleges but more than half of applicants for degree level courses got their first choice while some will have been left disappointed.

To discuss this as well as professionals looking to make a move in career direction, Susan was joined by Lynda Barry, a Career Consultant at Lynda Barry Career Consulting.

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Over the past few months, the vast majority of us will have experienced a wide spectrum of emotions as a result of the guidelines set up by the government in an effort to keep Covid-19 at bay.

But this week one simple photograph appeared to capture the mood of a nation grappling with a new shared reality.

John Joe Quinn was spotted enjoying a meal and a pint of stout in McGinn's Hop House in Galway's Woodquay, with his alarm clock set beside him.

An image of old routines folded into a new way of living.

John Joe joined Susan to chat about his new-found fame, life in Galway, and how he has been getting on since the pandemic started.

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The term "TikTok house" has been something we’ve heard quite a bit about this week after it emerged that ten social media personalities had moved into a house in Dublin together called the "GOAT" house (GREATEST OF ALL TIME), Ireland’s first ever TikTok house.

However things took a nasty turn for one of the participants when a barrage of online abuse forced him to leave the house - DJ and music producer Marty Guillfoyle joined Susan to tell her a bit more about what happened.

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With schools back this week, it will have been a busy period for families up and down the length and breadth of country.

But some parents, having had their kids at home when they would have normally been in school, have decided not to send her children back - instead opting to have them educated in the home.

But what are the benefits to home-schooling & un-schooling as Aisling Hamill and her partner, David have decided to do?

Aisling joined Susan to talk about 'un-schooling' and how it differs from conventional forms of education.

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The past two weeks have seen storms and floods cause havoc for communities across West Cork, along with Limerick, the North, and other parts of the country.

So why, after all the investment in flood defenses, is this still happening and what can be done to prevent it in the future? Shane Beatty was joined by Professor Mary Bourke, an expert on flood risk and management at Trinity College Dublin's Department of Geography. 

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According to new figures released this week, there has been a small increase in the number of appointments scheduled with the HSE's mental health services this year.

There were 105,403 appointments - including face-to-face, online and phone - between January and the end of June 2020 which compares with 103,276 for the same period in 2019 - an increase of just over 2,000.

Paul Gilligan is the CEO of St Patrick’s Mental Health Service.

Tens of thousands of Belarusian citizens have throughout the week, been engaged in protests against President Alexander Lukashenko following his disputed re-election on August 9th.

EU Foreign Ministers have approved possible sanctions in response, not only to the election result, but the brutal suppression of protesters amid reports of beatings and mistreatment of those arrested.

John O’Brennan is Professor of European Politics at NUI Maynooth. He joined Sean Defoe on the show to discuss the situation

From tomorrow it will be mandatory to wear face coverings in all shops and shopping centres, in addition to wearing one on public transport. 

The Government has launched a new campaign of posters to encourage mask wearing and other safe behaviours around Covid 19 and the illustrator who designed the posters Fatti Burke joined Susan on the show