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Primary school children usually feel happy and safe, but their positive emotions about themselves tend to decrease as they get older, a new study has found. To explain more about this we heard from Leslie Shoemaker, Counselling Psychologist and lecturer in TU Dublin.

It is understood that Minister for Health Stephen Donnelly will give the commitment today for 1,500 new beds to be introduced between 2025 and 2028. 
Speaking to Newstalk Breakfast was Dr. Peadar Gilligan, Member of the Irish Medical Organisation Consultant Committee.

Israeli forces have reportedly reached the centre of the southern Gazan city of Rafah, and seized a strategically important area overlooking the nearby border with Egypt. We get the latest from Alistair Bunkall, Sky’s Middle East News Correspondent.

There’s nothing bad about being a boymum, despite how they’re portrayed on social media, women who have sons should not be treated as second class mothers. 
That’s the claim of New York Times writer and Author of Boy Mom, Ruth Whippman who spoke to Shane this morning.

Is Ireland’s policy for defence working? One opinion is that Ireland is totally defenceless, unable to protect critical infrastructure or even pretend to secure its own borders.  
That’s according to Eoin Drea, Senior research officer at the Wilfried Martens Centre for European Studies who spoke to Newstalk Breakfast this morning.

The Climate Change Advisory Council is urging Government to take immediate action to implement sustainable construction methods to reduce emissions in the sector. Speaking to Ciara this morning was it's Chair Marie Donnelly.