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Presented by Petula Martyn

Jerry Brennan, SIPTU National Ports, Docks and Harbour Organiser discusses introducing the equivalent of a Safe Pass training programme for ports and docks.

Presented by Vincent O'Shea of Met Éireann.

On this week's Like Family, Brenda talks to family members about coping with grief and loss

Opening with Joni Mitchell’s ‘Big Yellow Taxi’, this week’s RTÉ Brainstorm reminds us of the impact cars have on our cities. Essentially we’ve traded birds, bees and trees for parking lots. Olf Straumeyer, geographer from NUIG and David O’Connor, planner from TUD, joined Ella McSweeney to explore how and why we might make Irish cities car-free.

On tonight's programme we heard Setting the Scene by Lisa McInerney; The Start of a New Life in Ireland (2008) by Bernadette Buda; Switch (2009) by Danielle McLaughlin; Extra-Mural (2010) by Janet Moran; Oh Wow! (2011) by Mary Morrissy; and Meeting the Boss (2012) by Robert Higgins

Donnacha Dennehy, composer of the opera "The Hunger"

Derek Hand and Michael Cronin, contributors to "Reading Brendan Behan" (edited by John McCourt, published by Cork University Press)

Anne Chambers chats about her play "Matriarchs"

Hugh Cahill and Alan Cawley discuss Dundalk being knocked out of Europe