Newstalk Breakfast Weekends

On Newstalk Breakfast with Susan Keogh - Our panel today...Newstalk Reporter Aideen Finnegan and Sean Murray, reporter with the journal.ie cast an eye over today’s main stories including: 4,000 Elderly wait 24 hours in Aamp;E, Farmers and Drivers face penalties under new carbon budget, Doonbeg eejits and other stories.

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This day last week we woke up to the news that Ireland had voted in favor of easing restrictions on divorce - Lia Hynes has been there and she joined Susan to talk about life after divorce.

 

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One week on from Ireland voting to ease restrictions on #Divorce tomorrow on #NewstalkBreakfast I’ll be joined by Ireland’s official divorce correspondent @liadanhynes

Days after winning a seat in local elections, Fine Gael councillor for Donegal Frank McBrearty quit the party. He tells us what brought him to this decision.

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On Newstalk Breakfast with Susan Keogh - Our panel today... Breda Browne, PR Director of Unique Media and Newstalk reporter Stephen Murphy cast an eye over today’s main stories including Ian Bailey verdict, Maria Bailey and compo culture in Ireland and Trump's Brexit solution.

The High Court in Paris yesterday convicted Ian Bailey of the murder of Sophie Toscan du Plantier more than twenty years after her body was found near her west Cork holiday home.

The French court charged the British former journalist who lives in Ireland with voluntary homicide.

Susan Keogh is joined by Mr Bailey's solicitor, Frank Buttimer to discuss the ruling.

Donald Trump will visit Doonbeag Co Clare on Wednesday

He’ll meet the Taoiseach Leo Varadkar at Shannon Airport where they will hold a bilateral meeting.

So are the locals getting ready to line the streets with Stars and Stripes of will they wave their placards in protest.

Susan Keogh spoke to Anne Marie Harrington from Futureproof, Clare and Liam Ryan of the Doughmore Coastal Protection Group.

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On Newstalk Breakfast with Susan Keogh - Our panel today...Ian Power, Executive Director of SpunOut.ie, John O’Brennan Professor of European Politics at NUI Maynooth and Sean Defoe Newstalks Political Correspondent, to take a look at today’s main stories and the latest in the election and referendum results.

Green Party leader Eamon Ryan speaks to Susan Keogh about the positive looking exit polls and how he and his fellow candidates sensed a sea change and where this Green Wave has come from.

Thousands have attended the trade union led Raise the Roof mass rally in Dublin city centre in protest at the ongoing housing emergency, our reporter Barry Whyte was there.....

Earlier this week the government announced an overhaul of the way in which the State deals with cases of familicide. Kathleen Chada has been involved in calls for alterations to be made following her husband Sanjeev's sentencing of life imprisonment in 2014 after killing her two young sons in July 2013.

Kathleen joins Susan in studio to discuss the changes.