Are kids’ birthday parties becoming too lavish?

A €2.5bn redress scheme for up to 100,000 owners of defective Celtic Tiger apartments will be brought to the Dáil in the coming months. Speaking to Newstalk Breakfast was Micheál Carrigy Fine Gael TD for Longford–Westmeath and Chair of Oireachtas Housing Committee.

Parts of the country that have been hit by flooding due to Storm Chandra are once again bracing for more heavy rain in the coming days. A status yellow rain warning will be in place for Carlow, Dublin, Kilkenny, Louth, Wexford, Wicklow, Waterford from 12pm this morning to midnight on Saturday.   We heard from Director of fire and emergency management at the Department of Housing, Planning and Local Government Keith Leonard. Also speaking to Jonathan was Cathoirleach of Enniscorthy Municipal District Councillor Barbara-Anne Murphy and live from Rathfarnham, Dublin - Newstalk reporter Emily Keegan.

Legislation to abolish the three-day waiting period for abortion on request has been introduced in the Dáil. For more on this Jonathan spoke to  Karen Sugrue, Psychotherapist and Sociology Lecturer at TUS and also Eilis Mulroy, Spokesperson for the Pro-Life Campaign.

Today is the 54th anniversary of Bloody Sunday, when British troops opened fire on a civil rights march in Derry, killing 14 unarmed civilians. To this day, none of them have ever served a day in prison. All these decades on, the trauma of their bereavement, as well as the lack of justice, has left many family members of those killed struggling with their mental health. That report by James Wilson was supported by the Rosalynn Carter Fellowship for Mental Health Journalism in the Republic of Ireland, in partnership with Shine.