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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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0:13:17

Delaney Family Appeal

Drivetime ·

2025/05/30

The family of Robert Delaney is making a plea for any information about what happened in 2008. Reporter Una Kelly has more.

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0:11:16

Voice of America Vs Trump

Drivetime ·

2025/05/29

Two months ago President Trump signed an executive order aimed at reducing the scope of eight federal agencies as part of his campaign to downsize the US government. To explain how this is going- Patsy Widakuswara Voice of America White House bureau chief.

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0:09:37

A campaign to tackle aggressive and unruly passenger...

Drivetime ·

2025/05/29

The "Not on my Flight" campaign is targeting unruly behaviours on flights to discuss this Jim Gavin, Chief Operations Officer of the Irish Aviation Authority

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0:08:33

Banning single use vapes

Drivetime ·

2025/05/29

Single-use vapes will be banned in Northern Ireland and the UK from this coming Sunday and the Irish Heart Foundation are calling for legislation to be fast-tracked here. To tell us more Mark Murphy is Senior Policy Manager with the Irish Heart Foundation

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0:17:45

US tariffs blocked by courts

Drivetime ·

2025/05/29

A US trade court yesterday blocked Donald Trump from imposing sweeping global tariffs on imports. For more I'm joined by Law professor at the University of Minnesota Richard Painter - who also served as chief White House ethics lawyer in the George W. Bush administration and Peter Burke the Minister for Enterprise, Tourism and Employment.

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0:10:09

MEP Ciarán Mullooly on the perils of using AI for...

Drivetime ·

2025/05/29

An Irish MEP has confirmed he used artificial intelligence to write a letter to Ursula von der Leyen, the President of the European Commission, urging the EU to deliver more aid to Gaza for more, Ciaran Mullooly, Independent Ireland MEP for Midlands North-West

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0:07:19

What to do about hen party burnout?

Drivetime ·

2025/05/28

Hen parties are facing a backlash, not over bad behaviour but burnout. The modern hen do is fast becoming a "hen don't" for many women who are put off by the price, the travel and the organisational chaos. Jessica O'Sullivan Editor of One Fab Day tells us more.

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0:10:07

A year-long protest at an International Protection...

Drivetime ·

2025/05/28

Locals in a Co. Tipperary village are vowing to continue their protest outside a former hotel housing International Protection Applicants – a year after their demonstration first began. Drivetime’s John Cooke has been back to the Tipperary Village of Dundrum

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0:14:41

Alan Kelly & Malcolm Byrne on RTE Executives quizzed...

Drivetime ·

2025/05/28

Alan Kelly, Labour Party TD for Tipperary North and chair of the Oireachtas Media Committee and Malcolm Byrne, Fianna Fail TD for Wicklow Wexford and member of the Oireachtas Media Committee.

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0:06:18

Record numbers of people treated for drug use in Ireland

Drivetime ·

2025/05/28

A record number of people were treated for drug use in Ireland last year, with cocaine the most common drug outside of alcohol. To discuss this Jo-Hanna Ivors, Associate Professor in Addiction from the school of medicine in Trinity College Dublin.

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0:08:14

Russia proposes second round of Ukrainian talks while...

Drivetime ·

2025/05/28

The Russian government said this afternoon that it had proposed another round of talks with Ukraine to be held in istanbul which would start on June 2nd. For more on this Maria Mezentseva Member of Ukranian Parilament

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0:14:21

Only 34,000 homes will be built this year short of...

Drivetime ·

2025/05/27

The ESRI have said they are forecasting only 34,000 homes will be delivered this year and only 37,000 next year. Cormac spoke to John Cummins, Minister of State at the Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage.

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0:09:52

Three more resignations from the Board of Childrens...

Drivetime ·

2025/05/27

Minister for Health Jennifer Carroll MacNeill has said that three members of the board of Children's Health Ireland have resigned this morning, and a fourth resigned in the last week. For more on this Padraig Rice, Social Democrat TD for Cork South Central and Anthony Staines, Professor of Health Systems at Dublin City University.

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0:07:41

The Trailblazing 13 year olds deciding what they want...

Drivetime ·

2025/05/27

Imagine a school where students get to design their own class, focused on learning about the important issues that matter to them. First Year Pupils at a number of Secondary Schools in Limerick, Galway and Kerry have been doing as part of a Junior Cycle pilot project called Needs. John Cooke has been speaking to some of those involved.

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0:14:30

Government creating a new option for extentions to...

Drivetime ·

2025/05/27

For reaction to this Eoin O Broin, Sinn Fein's Housing Spokesperson and Michael O'Flynn, Chairman & CEO of the O'Flynn Group and former member of the Housing Commission.

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0:08:23

Ministerial apology for the family of hit and run...

Drivetime ·

2025/05/27

The Minister for Justice Jim O'Callaghan has apologised on behalf of the State to the family of Monaghan man Shane O'Farrell. The 23-year old was killed in a hit-and-run incident - by a drug addict out on bail in Carrickmacross in August 2011. Our reporter Barry Lenihan tells us more.

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0:10:40

Aid collected in Ireland destroyed in a Russian drone...

Drivetime ·

2025/05/26

Aid collected in Ireland for Ukraine has been destroyed in a Russian drone strike on a humanitarian warehouse near Kyiv. For more on this Ukrainian Action co-founder Anatoliy Prymakov and Kira Rudik - Member of Ukrainian Parliament, Leader of Political party Holos on the Russian drone attacks over the weekend.

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0:13:43

Calls for the return of 100% mortgages

Drivetime ·

2025/05/26

"A properly structured 100% mortgage could turn long-term renters into homeowners and provide dignity and stability to countless families" To discuss this Conor Sheehan, Labour TD for Cork North Central and Spokesperson on Housing and Ken O'Flynn, Independent Ireland Party TD Party Chairperson and TD for Cork North Central.

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0:12:40

Surgeon who's operated on the sole surviving son of a...

Drivetime ·

2025/05/26

Victoria Rose,who is a British surgeon currently working in Nasser Hospital in Gaza. In the Nasser hospital she works alongside Palestinian doctor Alaa Al Najjar who lost nine of her ten children in an israeli airstrike in Gaza on Friday and whose husband and surviving 11 year old son are currently being treated by Dr Rose and her colleagues.

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0:11:11

Should PE gear replace the school uniform?

Drivetime ·

2025/05/26

Senator Evanne Ní Chuilinn the Fine Gael Seanad Spokesperson on Arts, Media, Sport & Communications says it's the common-sense approach to comfort and choice in sport and physical activity. Senator Evanne Ní Chuilinn spoke to Cormac and Sarah.

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