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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

Red Carpet Round Up with Esther McCarthy

a day ago - 5 mins

Newstalk Breakfast Highlights

Calls on electricity suppliers to help consumers save money

a day ago - 5 mins

Newstalk Breakfast Highlights

Katie Amess, daughter of murdered MP Sir David Amess following Kneecap’s apology

a day ago - 9 mins

Newstalk Breakfast Highlights

Could you marry someone without knowing their political beliefs?

a day ago - 8 mins

Newstalk Breakfast Highlights

The lack of Irish language secondary schools in the Dublin South City area

a day ago - 5 mins

Newstalk Breakfast Highlights

Calls to take the next steps to decriminalising drug use in Ireland

a day ago - 6 mins

Newstalk Breakfast Highlights

Cocaine Nation Series: How severe is the problem?

Now over the next couple of weeks on Newstalk Breakfast and The Hard Shoulder we’re going to be bringing you our new series ‘Cocaine Nation’, where we look at the rise in Cocaine use right across the country.  So how severe is the problem at the moment?  Well the latest figures released in April revealed that the number of people seeking treatment for cocaine addiction has doubled since 2011.  Dr Suzi Lyons, Senior Researcher at the Health Research Board joins Newstalk Breakfast to discuss the latest statistics. Our reporter Elaine Smith took to the streets to of Cork to ask those on their night out how big the issue is.