"An absolutely magnificent idea", is how economist Jim Power views the prospect of Athlone City. He joins Destination Athlone Chairman John O'Sullivan and Irish Times business journalist Mark Paul to discuss the Westmeath town's push to be designated a regional city under the State’s new spatial plan.

In the second part of the show, Cliff Taylor and presenter Ciarán Hancock go through the UK's Brexit border position paper with a fine tooth comb.