Newstalk Breakfast Weekends

The National Housing Conference is taking place this coming week in Dublin Castle. Susan Keogh is joined by David Browne, President of the Royal Institute of the Architects of Ireland to discuss new housing initiatives.

Sunday's Front Page Panel:

Michael Cogley, Business Correspondent with the Sunday Independent, and Sinead O’Carroll, News Editor at the Journal.ie, go through the big stories in the Sunday papers with Susan Keogh.

Eoghan McDermott, Director of the Communications Clinic and Aoife Barry, Assistant News Editor at the Journal.ie, go through the big stories in the Sunday papers. Unsurprisingly, the National Broadband Plan features heavily - Who is contributing what? What role will private firms play? Will other key projects suffer?

A wide-ranging interview with Independent Senator Lynn Ruane; touching on the big events in her life, her mental health journey, motherhood and politics.

In the early hours of this morning thousands of people at hundreds of locations right across the country walked from ‘Darkness into Light’ to raise money for suicide prevention and to promote positive mental health.

This year marks 10 years since the first ever Darkness Into Light event – and with around 200 thousand people taking part in 19 different countries across five continents, it has now turned into a global movement of hope.

Organised by Pieta House and supported by Electric Ireland over the past decade more than 30 million euro has been raised.

Susan took part in the Nass event in Co Kildare - around 4,000 people took part in that one alone - and she talked to some of the people taking part.

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The Government and Attorney General are considering the implications of a High Court ruling in relation to smear test screening.

Limerick woman Ruth Morrissey was awarded 2.1 million euro last week over the misreading of her smear test results.

The Judge also ruled that labs need to have ‘absolute confidence’ in a test result before giving it the all clear.

There are concerns that the ruling will undermine the country’s cancer screening programs.

Senior Lecturer in Law in Birmingham Law School, Mairead Enright discusses the future of these programs with Susan

Donal Walsh, the 16 year old Kerry native who passed away 6 years ago after a 4 year battle with cancer left this world with a powerful message. A simple message to other young people around the world about the value of life.

Susan is joined by Donal's mother Elma to talk about her inspirational young son, and the legacy he left behind.

Your first look at the Sunday Papers. Headlines and synopsis of the stories making the front-pages this Sunday morning.

Susan Keogh is joined in studio by Newstalk reporter Aideen Finnegan and Amii McKeever, editor of Irish Country Living magazine.

This week, locals in Drogheda in County Louth took to the streets, calling for an end to violence in their town. A feud involving two rival drug gangs has seen an escalation of tensions over the past few months.

The Garda Chief Superintendent in Louth has said the two criminal gangs involved in recent feuding in Drogheda once worked together but have now “imploded”.

Earlier in the week, it was confirmed that 25 additional gardaí would be allocated to the town, in addition to the armed Emergency Response Unit already being deployed there.

To discuss what else is being done to get the situation under control in Drogheda, Susan was joined on the line by Minister for Justice Charlie Flanagan.

Tipperary farmer Patrick Quirke is expected to appeal his conviction for the murder of part-time DJ Bobby Ryan.

Patrick Quirke was found guilty by a majority, 10-2 jury verdict on Wednesday. Quirke (50) of Breanshamore, Co Tipperary had pleaded not guilty to the murder

Communicorp Courts Correspondent, Frank Greaney, joins Susan Keogh to talk through the latest updates.