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Sleepovers are ‘heaven for kids and hell for parents’ That’s the view of Dr Malie Coyne, Clinical Psychologist and Author of ‘ Love In Love Out’ who joins me now. 
Malie explains why is it a difficult thing for parents to navigate sleepovers with their kids.

An Post was forced to stop TV licence inspections and offer “resilience” ­training to staff because of public anger over the RTÉ payments scandal. A spokesperson said increased hostility, mainly in the form of verbal abuse, led them to take this action to protect its workers. 
 We get reaction from Brid Smith, People Before Profit TD.

One person dying every day due to alcohol-related liver disease that's according to the latest alcohol overview from the Health Research Board  
 We get reaction from Dr. Sheila Gilheany, CEO at Alcohol Action Ireland.  

“The government is openly at war with its own people” that’s what John McGuirk, Editor of Gript Media says.  John along with Emma deSouza, writer and commentator, is also on the line, spoke to Newstalk Breakfast.

Almost 3,400 apprentices dropped out of apprenticeships last year.  That’s despite the Department of Further Education aiming to entice 10,000 new apprentices each year.   
Speaking to Ciara this morning was General Secretary, Connect Trade Union, Paddy Kavanagh.

Losing my hair made me miserable. Now I’m as bald as an egg, I couldn’t be happier – so says Stuart Heritage, author of Bald: How I slowly learned to not hate having No Hair(And you can too). Stuart joined Newstalk Breakfast this morning.