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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

'Designer Babies': Are We Closer Than We Thought?

We are less than two years away from creating ‘designer babies’, according to a new research. The findings published by Kevin Smith, from Abertay University in Dundee, reveal that the risks of gene editing are low enough to warrant its use with human embryos - and arguing an ‘ethically sound’ attempt could be as close as less than two years from now. David Quinn, Columnist at the Sunday Times and Director of the Iona Institute, joined us to discuss this further.