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“The day just lit him up, it was really the last thing he was able for and that was all thanks to Make A Wish”💫 Conor and Anne tell us about the invaluable work @MakeAWish_ie does to make children’s dreams come true, including for their son, Michael, who got the chance to meet…
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Here's what @ciarakellydoc thinks of the Tampax ad being banned by the Advertising Standards Authority for Ireland.
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Was @rickygervais ' gig in Dublin intolerant, nasty and grossly offensive? 'So what' if it was - Ciara Kelly says!
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Nine-year-old Róisín Price, who set herself a mission of collecting every GAA jersey in Ireland while battling leukaemia, has been declared cancer-free.
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'Today is the first day of the rest of my life.' @HenryMcKean was among the 3,000 people from all across the globe who became Ireland's newest citizens.
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In light of the three girls being raped in Cork, one @LunchtimeLiveNT listener texted in to say "Dress appropriately and then nothing will happen to them". @ciarakellydoc shares her thoughts on the text. #NTFM
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“I would really like to dedicate this to all the peacemakers everywhere. Go raibh mile maith agat” Cillian Murphy makes history as the first Irish-born person to win the Amacademy Award for Best Actor #Oscars
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"You need to get real,' Pearse Doherty challenges Leo Varadkar on housing
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"We're getting it wrong," @ciarakellydoc has her say on Level 5, but what do you think? @NTBreakfast
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Trinity College students have clashed with tourists as they blockade access to the Book of Kells this morning, as part of a ‘Freeze the Rents’ housing protest.
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"Not a single mention of Belfast anywhere." @kierancuddihy has his say on the "neglect" of Northern Ireland in the British media. @TheHardShoulder
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🇮🇪👏Best of luck to Team Ireland as they jet off to the Tokyo 2020 Paralympic Games! We're cheering you on all the way!🎉☘️ 📸: David Fitzgerald/Sportsfile
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. @sinnfeinireland ’s Dessie Ellis and his supporters sing ‘Come Out Ye Black and Tans’  #dublinnorthwest #GE2020
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Joe Brolly on @TheHardShoulder : 'We essentially have the KKK operating in the North' Read more and listen back to the full interview with @JoeBrolly1993 and @kierancuddihy here:
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"She's not our Queen. So I don't know why we are spending our money putting it on our national broadcaster." @kierancuddihy on @TheHardShoulder
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Irish citizen Ibrahim Alagha has shared a photograph of his three children smiling from a hotel room in Egypt on their first night outside Gaza.
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'What do you expect from a pig but a grunt?' Ciara and Shane discuss Jeremy Clarkson's comments on Meghan Markle @NTBreakfast
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‘I don’t think it’s personally abusive, I think it’s a statement of fact.” Michael O’Leary is defending his decision to hold a press conference featuring pictures of Eamon Ryan wearing a ‘dunce’ cap.
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"Am I not allowed to feel a bit uncomfortable as well?" @andreagilligan has her say on gender neutral toilets. @LunchtimeLiveNT
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"The Irish people were insulted by NPHET yesterday" - Ciara Kelly is furious with Tony Holohan's stance on antigen testing @NTBreakfast
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'No one hates Ireland more than the Irish far right.' @JoeBrolly1993 gives his thoughts on the riots in Dublin to @kierancuddihy , on @TheHardShoulder .
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‘Something very, very serious is happening.’ We need a full investigation into a spike in the number of deaths registered around the country in recent weeks. Peadar @Toibin1 #BKNT
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St Gerard's School is 10km from the Beacon Hospital, as the crow flies. 'There are 10 schools for children with special needs that are closer to the Beacon, than St Gerard's in Bray. There are over 21 nursing homes closer to the Beacon, than St Gerard's in Bray' - @KieranCuddihy
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'They kicked me and threw popcorn at me' - A woman assaulted on the Luas by three teenagers wants the law to be changed to allow minors to be prosecuted.
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Ciara Kelly: The way we're behaving with Omicron is disproportionate to the risk posed.
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Fantastic arrival for An Irish Goodbye Oscar winners at @DublinAirport 👏 📸 @JoshCrosbie3
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'Thanks very much lads, but we're grand ...' Kieran Cuddihy on new restrictions.
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@aoifegracemoore chats to @SeanMoncrieff about how the abuse she receives online was made a lot worse after Golfgate.
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“I’m tired of people telling people what they're allowed to say and think." Comedians like Ricky Gervais have a right to make jokes that offend or anger - Ciara Kelly. #BKNT
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Over the weekend that a number of protests took place against asylum seekers being accommodated in hotels. For the third night in a row, a demonstration took place in Ballymun, listen to the report on it now 👇
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Some of those charged in relation to last night's riots in Dublin city centre have started to arrive at The Criminal Courts of Justice.
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Protesters have interrupted the Taoiseach’s speech at the Government’s Forum on International Security Policy. 📷: @SeanDefoe
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"If not now, then when?" @kierancuddihy can't understand why Ireland is such an outlier when it comes to the easing of Covid restrictions. @TheHardShoulder
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The Dáil must have a proper debate on immigration without all the “name-calling, wolf whistles, accusations and everything else” – Mattie McGrath. #BKNT
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'She used to do these kinds of things all the time, below the radar'. @SeanMoncrieff shares a story which showed the extent of Sinéad O'Connor's generosity.
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Newstalk can confirm that George Hook has been suspended from his duties at the station. The process re: his comments last week is ongoing.
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🎬 George Hook, Signing Off. The broadcaster bids a final farewell to his listeners.
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This fox, winner of the Wildlife Comedy Photography Awards top honour, is a perfect metaphor for 2016
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Taoiseach Leo Varadkar's latest letter to the Sunday Independent seeks to defend the current asylum seeker process - so why is it filled with flawed information? @BarryWhyte85 writes:
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"A national and international embarrassment," @SeanMoncrieff doesn't hold back on #GolfGate
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After a man in his 50s was attacked by a group of people on Talbot Street in Dublin, leaving him in a serious condition, Ciara Kelly says we need to “take back the city.” Listen back on the Newstalk App.
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School girls told to wear longer skirts to 'create a good work environment for male staff'
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Three in four people believe Ireland is taking ‘too many refugees’, according to polls. Sinn Féin or Independent voters were most likely to say they felt too many refugees are being allowed in.
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"They wouldn't know ambition and positivity if it sat on them." @kierancuddihy believes we lack the ambition to introduce antigen testing.
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Greta Thunberg has mocked Donald Trump by using his own words against him. 11 months ago, the president tweeted that the young activist must work on her "Anger management problem" and that she needed to "Chill!". Last night Thunberg returned the favour.
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. @henrymckean chats with just some of the nurses landing in @Dublinairport who have returned home to help with the Covid-19 crisis. #CoronavirusIreland #Covid19 #HometoHelp
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"How many times do these doomsday merchants need to be wrong before we start ignoring them?" @KieranCuddihy on @TheHardShoulder
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Do we need to change how we report Covid-19 cases? @ciarakellydoc has her say on @BreakfastNT #BKNT
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"We've moved from protecting the vulnerable to protecting the fearful' @kierancuddihy isn't happy that the Dublin Marathon has been canceled. @TheHardShoulder
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‘People are thinking, well what about us as well?’ Marc MacSharry says the Government was able to build houses for 24 Ukrainian families in under five months – but can’t get to grips with Ireland’s homeless crisis.
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'I turned around and there he was in his big Rolls-Royce - he came over and said hello and asked what we do.' Christopher O'Reilly of @run_soup89131 was surprised by an appearance by @TheNotoriousMMA after a 'high' donation:
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Brigid McDermott - who lost three children in the Stardust fire - arrives at the inquest to hear the verdicts. Brigid lost her sons William and George, and her daughter Marcella in the tragedy.
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Ciara Kelly has been diagnosed with #coronavirus #covid19 - these were her symptoms | ⁦ @ciarakellydoc
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"Boris Johnson and Liz Truss do not give a fiddlers about Northern Ireland." Is the British Government using arguments over the Protocol as a distraction from the realities of Brexit? @TheHardShoulder
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'Get out of our faces' Ciara Kelly and Shane Coleman react to Leo Varadkar's comments on easing all restrictions by March 31st.
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Mattie McGrath claims that COVID restrictions are a 'power grab', comparing them to an 'apartheid'
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“I have serious and sincere reservations about our hate speech laws." Ciara Kelly says Ireland’s proposed new hate speech laws represent a “dangerous road to go down”. #BKNT
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'The north was set up as a unionist reich...that has all changed now, all of a sudden.' @JoeBrolly1993 gives @kierancuddihy his analysis of the Northern Ireland Elections. @TheHardShoulder
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This is not a drill!!! @fleetwoodmac will perform in the RDS next June, and we have a pair of tickets to give away! To enter, like, RT, and tell us your favourite #FleetwoodMac song! #NTFM #Win #Competition #Giveaway #Concert #Music
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The Northern Lights are dancing in Rossnowlagh, Donegal, tonight 😍 📸 @RobTimony
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"It is a massive emotional relief. This has not been an easy journey" - Northern Irish woman Sarah Ewart, who won a High Court case on abortion in Belfast
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"Clare Daly is representing all of us in Brussels, and she should be called out on nonsense like this." @kierancuddihy on @TheHardShoulder
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After fifteen days indoors, @ciarakellydoc is back walking 👏🙌 #coronavirus #100daysofwalking
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Over 200 people, including actor @liamcunningham1 , local residents and politicians, took part in the Northside Welcomes Refugees rally in Fairview this evening. It was organised in response to recent anti-immigration demonstrations in East Wall and Ballymun. 📸 @maireadcleary7
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Justice Minister Charlie Flanagan has said Offaly teenager Nonso Muojeke "is not at any immediate risk of deportation":
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A Bill which means everyone automatically becomes an organ donor unless they opt out will pass through the Oireachtas today. What are your thoughts on the Bill? 💭
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It’s Day 1 of #100daysofwalking with Ciara Kelly! 👏
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'I don't understand why anybody would try to undermine the lyrics of that song." Tánaiste @MichealMartinTD on the singing of 'Zombie'. @NTBreakfast
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When he was Minister for Health, Leo Varadkar secretly proposed removing redress entitlements of family members affected by contaminated blood transfusions in an effort to cut spending.
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'It is nonsense' @kierancuddihy gives his opinion on the possible 105 minute time limit on indoor dining on @TheHardShoulder .
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“We’re mugs!” - RTÉ paid Ryan Tubridy hundreds of thousands of euro more than it declared to the public or the Oireachtas. @kierancuddihy reacts to this breaking news.
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BREAKING: @ciarakellydoc to host new lunchtime show on Newstalk FM. 'Lunchtime Live' begins Mon 23rd Oct
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"I would like to reclaim our city and have a situation where ordinary people aren't afraid of their lives because there are people like this wandering around like feral gangs."
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