Newstalk Breakfast Highlights

A group of transition-year students at a Donegal school have had their music video hand-picked by Ed Sheeran, to accompany his newest album, Autumn Variations.     We spoke to one of the teachers who made the video possible Tina Garry, TY coordinator and media studies teacher at Finn Valley College Donegal.

The Government could run out of accommodation for asylum seekers as soon as this week.     That’s according to reports across the papers this morning.  Ciara spoke to Nick Henderson, CEO of the Irish Refugee Council.

Dublin city needs to go on a “Car Diet” that’s according to Dublin Bus CEO, Billy Hann, who made the comments in front of the Oireachtas transport committee yesterday.    But is he right?   For more on this we heard from Brian Caulfield Professor of Transportation at Trinity College.

Taoiseach Leo Varadkar told the Dáil that he has full confidence in his justice minister Helen McEntee, amid increasing calls for her to resign from opposition parties.   Speaking to Newstalk Breakfast Pa Daly Sinn Féin’s Justice Spokesperson and also Neale Richmond is Fine Gael Minister of State for Business, Employment & Retail.

A new poll by StudentSurvey.ie has found that more than one in three students in higher education say they have seriously considered quitting their courses   With reaction to these findings Shane spoke to Brian Mooney, Guidance Counsellor and Irish Times Columnist.