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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'

Latest episodes

Is Ireland's care system in crisis?

19 hours ago - 7 mins

Newstalk Breakfast Highlights

Batten down the hatches for rain and thunder

19 hours ago - 3 mins

Newstalk Breakfast Highlights

Should workspaces become more child-friendly?  

19 hours ago - 7 mins

Newstalk Breakfast Highlights

Rising car bonnets putting pedestrians at risk

19 hours ago - 3 mins

Newstalk Breakfast Highlights

Leisure centre in Larne set alight amid further disorder

19 hours ago - 10 mins

Newstalk Breakfast Highlights

Brian Wilson’s lasting legacy

20 hours ago - 6 mins

Newstalk Breakfast Highlights

Are we being too generous to those who are on social welfare?

There are currently around 150,000 people on social welfare across the country and, with the hospitality sector on its knees due to staff shortages, is it time we start looking at the unemployment benefits in Ireland?  To discuss Ciara spoke to Adrian Cummins Chief Executive of the Restaurants Association of Ireland and People Before Profit TD for Dublin southwest Paul Murphy. Listen and subscribe to Newstalk Breakfast on Apple Podcasts or Spotify.     Download, listen and subscribe on the Newstalk App.    You can also listen to Newstalk live on newstalk.com or on Alexa, by adding the Newstalk skill and asking: 'Alexa, play Newstalk'.