Newstalk Breakfast Highlights

The country is still buzzing after Paul O’Donovan and Fintan McCarthy’s stunning victory in the double schulls at the Tokyo Olympics yesterday. Their pictures are splashed across all the papers this morning and they both joined us on Newstalk Breakfast. Listen and subscribe to Newstalk Breakfast on Apple Podcasts or Spotify. Download, listen and subscribe on the Newstalk App.     You can also listen to Newstalk live on newstalk.com or on Alexa, by adding the Newstalk skill and asking: 'Alexa, play Newstalk'.

Another medal for Ireland! Yes, Belfast Boxer Aidan Walsh is guaranteed at least an Olympic Bronze after beating Mervin Clair of Mauritius in his welterweight quarter-final in Tokyo earlier this morning. His personal coach, Paul Johnston of Monkstown Boxing Club, Newtownabbey spoke to Mark Cagney on the show. Listen and subscribe to Newstalk Breakfast on Apple Podcasts or Spotify. Download, listen and subscribe on the Newstalk App.     You can also listen to Newstalk live on newstalk.com or on Alexa, by adding the Newstalk skill and asking: 'Alexa, play Newstalk'.

People Before Profit will launch their new Bank Holiday Bill today. It proposes three extra Bank Holidays- February 1st, the last Monday in September and the last Monday in November but do we actually need them?  People Before Profit TD, Richard Boyd Barrett  joined Mark Cagney on the show. Listen and subscribe to Newstalk Breakfast on Apple Podcasts or Spotify. Download, listen and subscribe on the Newstalk App.     You can also listen to Newstalk live on newstalk.com or on Alexa, by adding the Newstalk skill and asking: 'Alexa, play Newstalk'.

Ireland could be on the path to a "return to normality" thanks to the Covid-19 vaccination programme. HSE chiefs have hailed the Irish public's remarkable take-up of the jab for the roll-out's success. 71 percent of all Irish adults are now fully vaccinated against the virus, with 86 percent partially vaccinated. Chief Clinical Officer with the HSE, Dr Colm Henry spoke to Ciara this morning. Listen and subscribe to Newstalk Breakfast on Apple Podcasts or Spotify. Download, listen and subscribe on the Newstalk App.     You can also listen to Newstalk live on newstalk.com or on Alexa, by adding the Newstalk skill and asking: 'Alexa, play Newstalk'.

Just 23 percent of families located in the Gaeltacht are raising their children with Irish, according to an in-depth study of Gaeltacht language planning areas, and now only two areas remain where majority of children continue to speak Irish outside school. Julian de Spáinn General Secretary of Conradh na Gaeilge joined Mark Cagney on the show. Listen and subscribe to Newstalk Breakfast on Apple Podcasts or Spotify. Download, listen and subscribe on the Newstalk App.     You can also listen to Newstalk live on newstalk.com or on Alexa, by adding the Newstalk skill and asking: 'Alexa, play Newstalk'.