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Newstalk Breakfast Highlights

Newstalk Breakfast brings you all the news you need to set you up for the day – from politics, business, sport, entertainment and everything in between. Shane Coleman and Ciara Kelly have all the stories that matter, every weekday from 7-9AM. Listen and subscribe to Newstalk Breakfast Highlights on Apple Podcasts and Spotify. Download, listen and subscribe on the Newstalk App. You can also listen to Newstalk live on newstalk.com or on Alexa, by and asking: 'Alexa, play Newstalk'

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Restaurant closures since January could come at a cost of €288m

8 hours ago - 5 mins

Newstalk Breakfast Highlights

Are we getting in right when it comes to housing?

8 hours ago - 6 mins

Newstalk Breakfast Highlights

Are dating apps running love lives of a generation?

8 hours ago - 6 mins

Newstalk Breakfast Highlights

do beef farmers get special treatment compared to other carbon emitters?

9 hours ago - 8 mins

Newstalk Breakfast Highlights

Chargé d’affaires of the Iranian embassy to Ireland, Dr Kazem Sharif Kazemi

9 hours ago - 9 mins

Newstalk Breakfast Highlights

Are today’s young people worse off than previous generations?

9 hours ago - 8 mins

Newstalk Breakfast Highlights

200,000 euro in GP payouts for medical cards last year

Ireland’s GP practices received an average of almost two hundred grand last year for treating medical card patients. New figures released to Newstalk have revealed that the HSE paid over €565m (in fees and allowances) to GP practices and co-ops last year for treating medical card patients and providing services to other State health schemes. This figure represents an increase of €15million from 2017 with GP practices receiving an average of over €190,000. Newstalk Reporter Eoghan Murphy obtained the figures and joined us exclusively on Breakfast