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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

A plan to speed up asylum applications before the cabinet today

14 hours ago - 9 mins

Newstalk Breakfast Highlights

Spain has declared a state of emergency after a massive power cut

14 hours ago - 7 mins

Newstalk Breakfast Highlights

The Irish citizen who believes she is being monitored by China

14 hours ago - 7 mins

Newstalk Breakfast Highlights

More than 40% of 25-year-old Irish men drink 'hazardous levels' of alcohol

15 hours ago - 8 mins

Newstalk Breakfast Highlights

Do we all need a crash course in adulting?

15 hours ago - 5 mins

Newstalk Breakfast Highlights

Spain and Portugal crippled by power outages

16 hours ago - 5 mins

Newstalk Breakfast Highlights

Is there merit in mandatory sentencing?

Mandatory sentencing “Is a blunt tool to address crime” according to the Irish Penal Reform Trust. The remark comes since questions have been raised over whether there's merit to mandatory sentencing as a teenager was spared jail in Dublin after he was involved in an attack that resulted in a woman having boiling water poured over her. Molly Joyce, The Irish Penal Reform Trust’s Acting Executive Director spoke to Newstalk Breakfast with more on this.