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Newstalk Breakfast Weekends

Newstalk Breakfast Weekends continues Newstalk's news and current affairs coverage through the weekend including breaking stories from across the country and around the world along with expert analysis on the most important issues of the week. Saturdays and Sundays, 8-9am. Listen and subscribe to Newstalk Breakfast Weekends 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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Should Ireland legalise euthanasia?

Earlier this week the highest court in Germany ruled that a 2015 law banning professional assisted suicide was unconstitutional, as it robbed terminally ill patients of the right to a self determined death.  Portugal is also one step closer to legalising euthanasia after lawmakers there approved a number of bills which opens the door to the next phase.  Currently both euthanasia and assisted suicide are illegal under Irish law but a poll carried out late last year showed the majority of people in Ireland would support the legalisation of euthanasia here.  Susan was joined now by Tom Curran - who is the widower of right to die campaigner Marie Fleming.