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Alcohol and socialising seem to be intrinsically linked in this country.  So how can we give up drink but still maintain our social life?  We ask writer and broadcaster Keith Walsh.

Ireland will join Norway and Spain in formally recognising the state of Palestine. Eamon Ryan, Green Party leader and Minister for the Environment, Climate, Communications and Transport, joined us to explain why the government has taken this decision.

Storm rainfall in Ireland and UK has been made 20% more intense by human-caused climate change – that’s according to a new study from the World Weather Attribution. 
Speaking to Newstalk Breakfast was John Sweeney, Climatologist and Professor Emeritus at Maynooth University. 

People before Profit are calling for price caps on essential food such as milk and bread.  Could this be the solution to tackling the cost-of-living crisis for households struggling to make ends meet?   
 Shane was joined on the show this morning by Dublin South-Central People Before Profit TD and Dublin MEP candidate Bríd Smith and Cormac Lucey, Economics Columnist with Sunday times and independent local election candidate for Dun Laoghaire Council. 

The Israeli foreign ministry posted a video that warned if the Irish government recognise the State of Palestine, it will be encourage terrorism and become “a pawn in the hands of Hamas”   
 Speaking to Newstalk Breakfast with reaction was Oliver Sears, Founder of Holocaust Awareness Ireland and Cathal Berry Independent TD.

Weddings are back to pre-pandemic numbers and beyond, but with cost risings and guests expecting ever more .Can you cut numbers without cutting yourself off socially? Newstalk's Sarah Madden reports.