This Week

An 84-year-old man, whose son was shot dead while serving with the Irish Defence Forces, has been told that he is not entitled to keep an allowance which was granted to his late wife. John McNeela speaks to This Week, and then we hear from Sinn Féin TD Ruairí Ó Murchú.

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It was a dramatic victory at the High Court on Friday for the former Sinn Fein leader Gerry Adams in his month-long defamation case against the BBC. We hear from Enda McGarrity, the solicitor for Denis Donaldson's family, and Seamus Dooley, Irish secretary for the NUJ.

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On Wednesday, Richard Satchwell will be sentenced to life in prison for killing his wife Tina at their home in Youghal in County Cork in 2017. One of the journalists who interviewed him on a number of occasions was Prime Time's Barry Cummins.

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The numbers of people living in homeless shelters across the country reached a new record on Friday. We hear from Marian, a healthcare worker based in the Mid West who has lived in a rented home for 18 years, as her landlord has decided to sell the property. We later speak to Labour Party housing spokesman Conor Sheehan.

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So far this year, more than two thousand people who applied for their driving test failed to show up. Tens of thousands of people are waiting months for tests. So why are there so many no-shows? Our reporter Peter O’Connell travelled to Clare to find out more.

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A review is to be conducted into hip surgery carried out on around 1,800 children, after an audit found that a high number of surgeries at two hospitals did not meet the clinical criteria for surgery. We speak to Bernard Gloster, Chief Executive of the HSE.

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In a social media post on Friday, the US President said he would recommend 50% tariffs on the EU to begin on June 1st.

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Earlier this month the Residential Tenancies Board warned of "concerning trends" of rent increases in Galway that needed further investigation. In the last 12 months alone, rents in Galway have increased by 12.6% and the average monthly rent in Galway city is now €2,304. So how are tenants coping with these increases?

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A new implementation plan for the EU Pact on Migration and Asylum, which is due to come into force next year, raises concerns that Ireland “may not be able to adequately conduct screening” due to the country’s exclusion from the Schengen Area and the related IT border security systems.

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Aontú membership voted this weekend to make it party policy to limit the numbers of asylum seekers in the country until the housing crisis is addressed, to ban anyone entering Ireland if they purposely destroy travel documents, and to outlaw so-called Sharia law.

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