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Rachel Fehily on the impact of a pandemic on relationships and resolving potential conflict

One of the most popular cartoons in the world Spongebob Squarepants has been revoiced in Irish for TG4. The actors who voice Patrick and Spongebob, Lochlainn O’Mearáin and Marcus Lamb joined Ray for a chat.

Operation Transformation continues tonight and the leaders are gearing up for this week's Virtual 5k. Ray chats to Leader Paul Devaney and Dr Sumi Dunne.

Couples in Ireland who conceived through IVF and surrogacy fear that they may never be legally recognised as their children's parents, due to a gap in legislation. Brendan Spratt and his husband Gavin McConnon join Ray to tell us their story and how this affects them.

On today's show writer Barbara Scully chats to Ray about her mother recieving the vaccine, we hear from Brendan Spratt & husband Gavin McConnon about surrogacy, Ray chats to Operation Transformations Leader Paul Devaney and Dr Sumi Dunne and Spongebob Squarepants episodes have been revoiced in Irish, Lochlainn O’Mearáin & Marcus Lamb tell us more.

A contestant in the Miss Ireland pageant withdraws from the competition over a rule which states participants are not allowed to be mothers. Twink shares on views on this and Level 5 restrictions. Callers reminisce on the showband era and The Indians, and Dr JP Dunbar shares his spider expertise.

Fran McNulty, our consumer correspondent on reports in the Irish Independent that Bank of Ireland could be planning to use the post office network to provide banking to its customers.

We speak to Devin Kenney, UAE researcher based in Amnesty International's Beiruit office

Our South East Correspondent, Conor Kane, reports.

Paul Reynolds, our Crime Correspondent, brings us details of today's sentencing.