Panel: HSE Chief Clinical Officer Dr Colm Henry, Minister of State Jack Chambers, Social Democrats co-leader Róisín Shortall, Sinn Féin TD Louise O'Reilly, Phil Ní Sheaghdha of INMO and Danny McCoy of IBEC

Brendan is joined in studio with Taoiseach, Micháel Martin.

There's talk of passengers coming into Ireland facing quarantine for at least five days if they don’t arrive with a negative Covid-19 test.

This week there’s been huge concentration on whether we should have mandatory quarantine at Irish airports.

We're joined by Patrick Edmund from Altair Advisory to tell us more.

On This week’s countrywide; Damien meets two awarding winning cork farmers, The problem of seed imports post Brexit, Brenda Donohue finds out more about the Islands only human milk bank in Fermanagh , fostering the entrepreneurial spirit and poet Seamus O’Rourke

Seascapes tonight hears from the Naval Service’s first-ever woman diver, Sub Lieutenant Tahalia Britton; Donegal Independent TD, Thomas Pringle on the ongoing dissatisfaction among fishermen over the Brexit Fisheries deal; and pro sailor, Olympic coach and RTE sailing analyst, Maurice “Prof” O’Connell on the America’s Cup.

On the programme tonight, both our guests in their eighties, share insight and wisdom from their early lives that resonates today. We are joined by Sister Helen Préjean and Holocaust survivor Tomi Reichental.

Guest: Former EU Chief Brexit Negotiator Michel Barnier

RTÉ Europe Editor Tony Connelly talks to former EU Chief Brexit Negotiator Michel Barnier and discusses diplomatic spats and The Who with Deputy Foreign Editor Colm Ó Mongáin.

The late Eavan Boland won the Costa poetry award for 'The Historians', it is shortlisted for the Book of the Year, Jody Allen Radolph discusses, Russell T Davies on his new show, It's A Sin, following a group of friends & how Aids affects their lives in the 1980a, Siobhan Kane & Simon Maher review new music from Rhye, Kerri Watt & James Yorkston.

This week on Playback. Covid and its many variants – we track the race between the virus and the vaccine. Joe Biden becomes President of the United States. And lockdown three has Ryan fighting raindrops. All on Playback presented by Sinéad Mooney.

Read by the author. From his high-up perch under his Velux window, a pirate radio DJ watches a routine morning grow and the good people of Limerick city getting up and out into another April day.