Auxiliary Bishop of Armagh Michael Router spoke to us about the hugely negative impact of drug addiction on families and communities and the need to work together to tackle this scourge affecting some many towns around the country.

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Deputy Peadar Toibin, Chairman of the Save Navan Hospital Campaign says the people will take to the streets to force Government to listen to their concerns about the closure of stroke services and treatments at Our Lady's Hospital in Navan. He also spoke on the comments by Drew Harris on the IRA council.

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Deputy Matt Carthy speaks to Michael about their plans to host public rallies to seek the public's views on what they want from Government and also responding to the comments made by Garda Commissioner Drew Harris about the IRA

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A compilation of some of the best bits from this week's shows including Michael's interview with Sedurida who told her story about fleeing Uganda to save her daughter's life and their life now in direct provision, Deputy Ged Nash on the speculation over the Labour leadership, Deputy Darren O Rourke on the Govt formation talks and the DUP's Jim Wells on his concerns about the impact of the new immigration laws in the UK

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DUP MLA for South Down Jim Wells spoke with Michael about the tough new immigration laws introduced in the UK yesterday and outlined his concerns about the impact they will have on the health and agriculture sectors

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Sinn Fein's newly elected TD for Meath West, Darren O Rourke speaks to Michael about the to-ing and fro-ing within the formation of Government talks which he describes as a farce. He tells us that those elected have a responsibility to form a Government and get on with the business of running the country.

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Labour's Gerald Nash joined Michael to announce that he is ruling himself out of the leadership contest - he says he's worked hard to regain the trust of the people of Louth/East Meath and he wants to concentrate on honouring their trust in him for the next 4 yrs.

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Sedurida , origninally from Uganda and now living in direct provision in Mosney, spoke to us about losing her first daughter Grace to female genital mutilation and how she had to escape to save her 2nd daugher Precious from the same fate.

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We look back on the highlights of the Michael Reade show this week including post general election interviews and coverage of the funeral and brutal murder of Keane Mulready Woods

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Fr Phil Gaffney joined Michael in studio after delivering a very powerful and thought provoking homily at Keane's funeral yesterday - he appealed to the young people there not to get involved in gang crime and he spoke about the impact Keane's death has had on those who knew him.

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