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On the show today: Trump's Board of Peace, Childcare & DCC Housing Chair encouraging people to leave Dublin Join us live at 1pm 📻
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On today's programme: Grok nudification, Trump still wants Greenland & plans for new immigration laws Join us live at 1pm 📻
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On today's programme - reforms to the Assessment of Needs process, blister packs, and defence. Join us at 1pm 📻 Paul McAuliffe, Fianna Fáil TD and Party Whip David Cullinane, Sinn Féin TD and Health Spokesperson Senator Laura Harmon, Labour spokesperson on Disability
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On today's programme - calls for emergency winter disability payment, why are so many young people leaving Ireland? and the taxi protest Join us at 1pm 📻 Panel: Neale Richmond Fine Gael TD & Min. of State Cian O’Callaghan, Social Democrats TD Claire Kerrane, Sinn Féin TD
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"Second hand isn't second best. Every piece of clothing in your wardrobe now is second hand", Mark Sweeney Oxfam Ireland's Donated goods strategy manager on @SaturdayRTE
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On today's programme: Fast Fashion, Gender based Crime, Energy Credits and the upcoming Dublin By-Election. Join us live at 1pm 📻
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"What we’re seeing is large corporates sitting on land because they know that this govt...will just keep on subsidising them even more…They know if they wait, they’ll get more money." @WhitmoreJen gives #SaturdayRTE her views on the new housing plan launched this week.
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"We’ve a housing plan that doesn’t have yearly targets... We’ve a minister who’s not willing to stand over his own plan… I want this plan to work. I’ve read it back to front. This plan will not deliver houses." @ThomasGouldSF on the new Housing Plan #SaturdayRTE
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Speaking about the Digital Services Act & its place in tackling access to porn for young people, @ThomasByrneTD says there "is a regulation there & a number of cases have been taken by the European Commission this year on it. I would like to see more action on it." #SaturdayRTE
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Prof Colin O'Gara on increase in addiction to porn: "This is a toxic product on the internet & it’s having a substantial effect...on society as a whole but particularly men, particularly boys but also by extension women and girls because of the violent content." #SaturdayRTE
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"Road network is extreemly wet and saturated....People need to be very careful...There will be spray on the road, there will be muck kicked up." Superintendent Liam Geraghty says motorists need to be extra vigilent on the roads today in the aftermath of the storm. #SaturdayRTE
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Join us for Saturday with Cormac Ó hEadhra on air live from 1pm 📻 We'll discuss Storm Claudia, male porn addiction and housing.
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The harsh reality of living with a disability in Ireland Will opposing attitudes to asylum seekers be the undoing of a possible united Left alliance? The Taoiseach says all the rights things at COP 30 but will those words be matched with action back home? We're live at 1pm 📻
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... @BillyKelleherEU says there are "a few things" that FF needs to take from this election. "The new Ireland that's there and has been there for some time probably feels a littled bit more alienated from traditional politics and how we go about politics in general in Ireland."
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FF MEP @BillyKelleherEU says he does "not feel aggrieved" at not being selected as the party's candidate, but he feels "very strongly" that the situation has done "a lot of damage" to the party. "Our voters are very upset. They feel let down, to a certain extent." ...
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FG dir. of elections @martinheydonfg congratulates @catherinegalway, but thanks @HeatherH - she "gave everything she had" over the last two months ... "we all want the next president to be successful in her tenure, and she’ll (Catherine Connolly) have our full support for that”
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SF's @EOBroin says it's a "remarkable" victory for Catherine Connolly, but spoilt votes shouldn't be dismissed, "Clearly there are folks who didn't hear or buy into our message that there was a contest of ideas ... and we're not going to ignore those people."
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... @declanganley says others said casting a spoiled ballot was undemocratic but it’s “profoundly democratic ... It has produced an unprecedented and historic protest vote in the form of the spoiled ballots that are being counted”.
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... @declanganley says the large number of spoiled votes points to an enormous dissatisfaction and rejection of this particular process and this ballot, adding that it was "rigged and curated" in terms of the the candidates the public were presented with. ...
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Businessman @declanganley - a member of the ‘Spoil the vote’ campaign - says people spoiled their vote because they weren't motivated by the debate or the competition. “If Maria Steen on the ballot, we would have a different result today. She would have won this election. ...
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