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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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0:05:57

The relationship between humans and cats

Drivetime ·

2025/06/06

Alice Chau - clinical animal behavourist, explains what cats understand about their owners and how they communicate with us

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0:06:25

Football in prisons

Drivetime ·

2025/06/06

RTÉ reporter Una Kelly on Sligo Rovers new programme of football coaching sessions for prisoners

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0:09:28

Delivery Drones

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2025/06/06

John Walsh, Dublin West Labour councillor and, Bobby Healy CEO of Manna Air Delivery discuss the issues surrounding the use of drones for delivery

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0:05:54

Tax take up 3.6% so far this year

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2025/06/05

The Department of Finance released Exchequer figures for the first five months of the year. These show that taxes collected by the State rose by 3.6% to €36.4bn. For more on this economist Seamus Coffey.

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0:06:09

The latest on the Irishwoman detained by Israeli...

Drivetime ·

2025/06/05

On Monday it was confirmed that a 71 year old Irish woman, Deirdre 'D' Murphy was being held in Israel fighting a deportation order after being arrested in the West Bank. For the latest on this Deirdre's son Dale Ryan.

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0:14:24

The DAA..on coping with Dublin Airports biggest...

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2025/06/05

With 10 million passengers expected this summer, Dublin Airport is still promising speed and smooth journeys. DAA CEO Kenny Jacobs spoke tO Cormac.

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0:13:13

Unacceptable and shocking' reaction to the RTE...

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2025/06/05

For more reaction to Shane Scanlan, CEO of the Alliance Supporting Nursing Homes who represent those in the private nursing home sector, Paul McAuliffe, Fianna Fail TD for Dublin North West and Padraig Rice, the Social Democrats' health spokesperson, and chair of the Oireachtas Health Committee.

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0:08:25

Reaction to the RTE Investigates programme on nursing...

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2025/06/05

Questions are mounting this evening for the lucrative private nursing home sector, its regulator and the Minister for Older People after last nights expose on Em-ease nursing homes. RTE Investigates revealed how residents at two privately-run homes were left to sit in their own urine and subjected to manhandling by staff. Reporter Barry Lenihan.

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0:10:31

More than half of women's refuges across the country...

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2025/06/04

More than half of women's refuges across the country that we have contacted are currently full to capacity, while some refuges reported having to turn down hundreds of accommodation requests last year due to lack of space. Our reporter Una Kelly tells us more.

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0:09:27

What next for children awaiting treatment as the NTPF...

Drivetime ·

2025/06/04

Taoiseach Micheál Martin has said he hopes the suspension of funding by the National Treatment Purchase Fund to Children’s Health Ireland will be a temporary one. Funding was suspended following “serious concerns” over a 2021 CHI report. To discuss this Sinn Fein’s Health Spokesperson David Cullinane.

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0:06:08

Expansion of the Wage Subsidy Scheme launched today

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2025/06/04

The scheme encourages employers to hire people with disabilities ..by providing financial support and can help cover the cost of adapting a role for the employee. For more on this Minister for Social Protection Dara Calleary.

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0:08:41

UK surgeon Victoria Rose on her work in Gaza and the...

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2025/06/04

Surgeon Victoria Rose has just returned to the UK today after working as a surgeon in war-torn Nasser hospital in Southern Gaza for over three weeks. She worked 14 hour days treating casualties from Israeli attacks, while dealing with severe shortages caused by the humanitarian blockade.

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0:12:51

Northern Ireland's first black mayor reveals...

Drivetime ·

2025/06/04

The outgoing mayor of Derry City said this week that the role has been the greatest honour of her life, even though it came with relentless abuse. Lilian Seenoi Barr was Northern Ireland's first black lord mayor she spoke to Cormac about how she faced "unprecedented levels" of racially-motivated online abuse during her term in office.

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0:12:26

Sunny Jacobs one of two people killed in a house fire...

Drivetime ·

2025/06/03

Sunny had spent 16 years in a Florida prison for the murder of two police officers - some of those years on death row. She was released from jail in 1992. Cormac and Sarah speak to Abe Bonowitz of "Death Penalty Action" in the United States and Ellen McGarraghan, an author and private investigator.

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0:09:27

Calls to reform Bail Laws

Drivetime ·

2025/06/03

The man who died during a shooting incident at the Fairgreen Shopping centre in Carlow town was out on bail on firearm charges at the time of the shooting. It has prompted new calls for a wider review of the enforcement and operation of bail laws. Fianna Fáil TD & barrister Cynthia Ní Mhurchú & Matt Carthy SF Spokesperson on Justice & Home Affairs.

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0:09:51

A new search for Madeline McCann in Portugal

Drivetime ·

2025/06/03

Nearly two decades since her disappearance Portuguese and German authorities have today started a new search for Madeleine McCann in Portugal. For more on this Robbyn Swann, co-author of the book Looking for Madeline published in 2017 and by Portuguese based journalist Alison Roberts.

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0:15:08

Is the death of rural Ireland, real or exaggerated?

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2025/06/03

The only shop in the village of Johnstown in Kildare has announced it's to close its doors this week. To discuss this Michael O'Donovan, President of the Vintner’s Federation of Ireland, Elaine Houlihan, former President of Macra na Feirme, Seamus Boland from Irish Rural Link & John Cooke visited Clare village Feakle to speak to local residents.

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0:09:35

Latest homeless figures

Drivetime ·

2025/05/30

Seamus McGrath, Fianna Fail TD and Donnachadh Ó Laoghaire Sinn Féin TD discuss the latest homelessness figures another record high recorded today

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0:12:51

US surgeon who told the UN this week that Israel...

Drivetime ·

2025/05/30

The UN Security Council heard testimony this week from a US surgeon who says he treated children who were deliberately shot in Gaza. To discuss this Dr. Feroze Sidhwa

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0:25:18

Richard Satchwell guilty of murdering wife Tina

Drivetime ·

2025/05/30

Richard Satchwell has been found guilty of murdering his wife Tina, for more on this Ralph Riegal, Southern Correspondent with the Irish Independent & Criminologist Trina O' Connor, followed by Sarah Benson, CEO of Women's Aid

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