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Drivetime

Highlights from the daily news programme with Sarah McInerney and Cormac Ó hEadhra. Featuring all the latest stories, interviews and special reports. Listen live Monday to Friday at 4.30pm on RTÉ Radio 1.

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0:06:47

Latest in the presidential race as two canditates...

Drivetime ·

2025/08/19

The contest for the Fine Gael nomination in this autumn's Presidential election appears all but over already. Reporter Barry Lenihan gives us the latest.

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0:10:12

Claims that many more food businesses will close...

Drivetime ·

2025/08/19

New report commissioned by the Restaurants Association claims to make the economic case in favour of cutting the VAT rate on hospitality businesses to 9% in the upcoming Budget. To discuss this Tony Foley, Emeritus Associate Professor of Economics at DCU and economic researcher of this report and economist at Trinity College Dublin John Fitzgerald.

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0:07:28

UN human rights body says Palestinians seeking food...

Drivetime ·

2025/08/19

The United Nations human rights office said today that Israel is not letting enough aid into Gaza to avert widespread starvation. For more on this spokesperson for the UN human rights office Thameen Al-Kheetan from Geneva.

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0:06:30

App obsessed - a medical consultant warns phone...

Drivetime ·

2025/08/19

There’s increasing evidence that we rely on tech gadgets for stuff we used to remember. To tell us more about this Matthew Sadlier is a consultant and an Old Age Psychiatrist.

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0:10:14

Dublin community has formed an action group against...

Drivetime ·

2025/08/19

The government is due to publish guidance on the operation of drones tomorrow but some residents in Dublin 15 say it is coming too late for their community. They have come together to form an action group to highlight their concerns around the impact of food delivery drone services. Reporter Una Kelly has been speaking to them.

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0:06:24

Clothes Recycling

Drivetime ·

2025/08/18

Solene Schirrer, Programme Lead with VOICE Ireland discusses the results of a recent investigation into where your recycled clothes go

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0:05:13

Urinary Leakage

Drivetime ·

2025/08/18

Dr David Nolan, assistant professor of Sport and Exercise Sciences at the DCU School of Health and Human Performance, talks about the frequency of urinary leakage as an issue for women of all ages and the importance of breaking the stigma around talking about it

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0:05:44

ROBLOX

Drivetime ·

2025/08/18

David Gilbert, reporter for WIRED talks to John about the latest developments with ROBLOX and parental concerns

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0:03:07

Safe cycling to school

Drivetime ·

2025/08/18

As the back to school period is in full swing Jo Linehan joins John Cooke to discuss safety for children cycling to school

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0:09:27

Supermarket Pricing

Drivetime ·

2025/08/18

Michael Kelly, Founder of G-I-Y, and presenter of Food Matters on RTÉ, and Denis O'Hora, Director of the Masters in Consumer Psychology, University of Galway are on to discuss Supermarket pricing and concerns around supply

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0:18:04

Washington meeting

Drivetime ·

2025/08/18

Geoffrey Roberts an expert in post soviet politics and history, and Ukranian MP Inna Sovsun discuss the meeting between President Volodymyr Zelenskyy and President Donald Trump

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0:06:17

No deal on plastic pollution

Drivetime ·

2025/08/15

Talks in Geneva to try to agree a new landmark global treaty on plastic pollution have ended overnight, without a deal. Negotiations had been taking place for the past two weeks and had been extended, with big divisions to be resolved between oil-producing states and the countries worst-affected by plastic pollution.

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0:07:02

World Transplant Games

Drivetime ·

2025/08/15

Twenty eight Irish athletes are taking part in the World Transplant Games, which begin in Germany tomorrow. More than two thousand people from fifty countries will compete at the sporting event, which organisers say is a celebration of a second chance of life.

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0:04:35

A Ukrainian MP's view of the Alaska Summit

Drivetime ·

2025/08/15

"Time to end the war. We are counting on America". These are the words of the Ukrainian president today as he expressed hopes of a trilateral summit with Trump and Putin. We get the view from Ukraine now with Ukranian MP Oleksiy Goncharenko.

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0:11:43

A growing movement of IDF soldiers refuse to serve in...

Drivetime ·

2025/08/15

'Ben' served as an Israeli army reservist in Gaza after the October 7 Hamas attacks, but now refuses to serve there and accuses his own government of pursuing a politically driven war.

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0:11:47

Presential candidate Catherine Connolly

Drivetime ·

2025/08/15

Independent candidate Catherine Connolly is now the only person in the race who has already received the 20 nominations from Oireachtas members needed to stand in the election, after securing the backing of left-leaning parties and TDs including the Social Democrats, People Before Profit, the Labour Party and a number of independents.

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0:07:32

John Bolton's view on the Alaska Summit

Drivetime ·

2025/08/15

John Bolton, Donald Trump's former National Security Adviser, has compared the Alaska summit to Donald Trump inviting the Taliban to peace negotiations at Camp David.

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0:11:57

FG Presidential campaign in crisis as Mairéad...

Drivetime ·

2025/08/14

Fine Gael presidential candidate Mairead McGuinness has announced that she is withdrawing from the race. For reaction former Fine Gael TD and party member, Noel Rock & Dr. Kevin Cunningham, Lecturer in Politics at TU Dublin & Founder of 'Ireland Thinks' polling company.

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0:05:53

What can we expect from the Putin Trump Alaska Summit

Drivetime ·

2025/08/14

Anticipation and excitement are mounting in the US state of Alaska as Presidents Trump and Putin are due to meet in the capital Anchorage tomorrow. For the latest Liz Ruskin is Washington Correspondent with Alaska Public Media.

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0:07:23

How to deal with banned and invasive plants

Drivetime ·

2025/08/14

As well as having a devastating impact on our biodiversity, the cost of invasive species managment to councils is on average €1.7 million a year. To tell us more Noeleen Smyth, botanist and chartered horticulturist.

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