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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

Investigation into disappearance of Michael Gaine upgraded to homicide

2 hours ago - 5 mins

Newstalk Breakfast Highlights

A plan to speed up asylum applications before the cabinet today

a day ago - 9 mins

Newstalk Breakfast Highlights

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

a day ago - 7 mins

Newstalk Breakfast Highlights

The Irish citizen who believes she is being monitored by China

a day ago - 7 mins

Newstalk Breakfast Highlights

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

a day ago - 8 mins

Newstalk Breakfast Highlights

Do we all need a crash course in adulting?

a day ago - 5 mins

Newstalk Breakfast Highlights

Major changes to the Leaving Cert English exam

Major changes to the Leaving Cert may require students to sit a single written English exam, down from two, of course, at the present, and there would be a project worth 40 percent at the end of fifth year. This would potentially come into place for those students entering fifth year in September 2026. We get reaction to this with Conor Murphy, English teacher in Skibbereen Community School.