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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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Cork North Central Constituency | Drivetime Election '24

Cormac is in RTÉ's Cork studio where we're looking at the constituency of Cork North Central. The candidates in studio are Fianna Fáil's Pádraig O'Sullivan; Fine Gael's Colm Burke; Sinn Féin's Joe Lynch; People Before Profit-Solidarity Mick Barry and Ken O’Flynn of Independent Ireland.

27 min
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Food crisis in Gaza as aid trucks looted

Food prices in Gaza have surged following the looting of nearly 100 aid trucks, compounding an already dire food crisis caused by over a year of conflict between Israel and Hamas. We hear from World Health Organisation spokesperson Dr Margaret Harris.

11 min
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Russia-Ukraine war escalates amid reports UK shadow missiles have been fired into Russia

Ukraine has fired UK supplied long-range Storm Shadow missiles at Russian targets for the first time, the BBC understands. We hear from Concern’s Head of Emergencies Ros O’Sullivan in Kyiv and get the latest military developments from reporter and presenter Lewis Goodall.

11 min
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Why the Scots and Irish are the best at sniffing out a fake accent

Time and again, actors seem to fail to make the grade when to comes to speaking in an Irish accent. According to research that has been published in the journal of Evolutionary Human Sciences, we Irish are particularly adept at figuring out a fake accent. To tell us more, one of the researchers Jonathan Goodman from the University of Cambridge.

10 min
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As Ukraine marks 1,000 days since Russia's invasion we talk to Médecins Sans Frontières on the ground in Kyiv

Ukraine has marked one thousand days since Russia's full-scale invasion today with weary troops battling on numerous fronts. Aid agencies continue to provide medical support in the region. Christopher Stokes is Médecins Sans Frontières/Doctors Without Borders Emergency Coordinator in Ukraine.

8 min
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General Election 2024 Kerry Constituency - John Cooke reports

As Drivetime continues to travel the country ahead of General Election 2024, this evening we're hearing from the Kerry Constituency where our reporter John Cooke has been speaking with voters in the town of Tralee.

11 min
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MedGlobal volunteer mission in Gaza

Amid the ongoing war in Gaza, hospitals are at the sharp end of the conflict. Dr Nabeel Rana is a vascular surgeon and he recently completed a month-long MedGlobal volunteer mission in Gaza in hospitals in Khan Yunis and Deir al-Balah.

12 min
2 DAYS AGO

Top hotelier says policies are pushing prices higher

A leading hotelier claimed today the Government here has a “complete lack of understanding of how business works” and is turning Ireland into another Switzerland in terms of prices. With Des O’Dowd, owner of Inchydoney Island Lodge and Spa in West Cork and Greg Ennis, Deputy General Secretary with responsibility for the private sector in SIPTU

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02/20/2020

Mallarie121

Why does it take RTE an age to provide a Podcast after transmission. It’s like they have a part-time staffer uploading Podcasts and they don’t upload anything after 6pm. Disappointing for a major broadcast network.
Wrong episode uploaded ?

07/03/2020

dm508

The episode advertised as ‘Ghislaine Maxwell’ is about Trump’s brother. Seems to be an uploading mistake

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.