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New lower speed limits come into effect this week and motorists will see major reductions on many rural and urban roads.
Conor Faughnan, transport commentator and chief executive of the RIAC, joins The Last Word to discuss the new speed limits and Ireland's road safety issues.
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Andy O’Donoghue has a run down of all the latest fitness technology from free Apps, to smart watches.
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The Copernicus Climate Change Service has said that last month was the warmest January on record. This continues a series of temperature records since the middle of 2023, with temperatures approximately 0.2C above what had been anticipated.
Commentator John Gibbons joined Matt for this week’s Environment slot.
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The family of Joe Drennan have expressed their anger at the prison sentence of the man who killed him in a hit and run in 2023.
Kieran Fogarty from Co. Limerick received a six-and-a-half-year sentence for dangerous driving causing death & an eight-year sentence for a drive-by shooting earlier that year. Both sentences will run concurrently & have been backdated to October 2023.
On Thursday’s The Last Word, Matt spoke to Conor Sheehan, Labour TD for Limerick City and Conor Hanly, Law Lecturer at the University of Galway about why sentences run concurrently in Ireland.
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On this week's Culture Club, Doireann Ní Ghlacáin, presenter, musician and co-host of How to Gael podcast, joins The Last Word to discuss her favourite music, movies and more.
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US President Donald Trump's plan to 'take over' war torn Gaza and turn it into the 'Riviera of the Middle East' has been met with shock and global condemnation.
Professor Aoife O’Donoghue from Queen's University Belfast and journalist Hannah McCarthy join The Last Word to discuss the proposal which flies in the face of international law and risks further destabilising the Middle East.
Later, Marion McKeone and Larry Donnelly join to assess whether the US President is really serious about this plan which would amount to an ethnic cleansing.
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Daragh O'Brien, Minister for Climate, Environment and Energy, and Minister for Transport, outlined the plans for ESB to upgrade the electricity network and insure its resilience.
As former minister for housing, he also spoke about the CSO figures released two weeks ago that suggested there was a shortfall in housing completions for 2024.
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On Tuesday, Matt was joined by author Joseph O’Connor as he discussed the release of his latest book “The Ghosts of Rome”.
The book is set in spring 1944 and follows a group of people who help others escape the Germans in Rome, which has been occupied by the Nazis for six months.
They also discussed the current political landscape in both Ireland and around the world, and how it is reflected in the themes throughout the novel.
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Ian Guider, columnist with the Business Post, joins The Last Word to discuss the impact of US President Donald Trump slapping tariffs on China and threatening Canada, Mexico and the European Union.
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China has slapped tariffs on a raft of goods coming from the United States in response to US tariffs on Chinese goods introduced by President Donald Trump.
Marion McKeone and Cal Thomas join The Last Word to discuss the latest news from the US as Trump fires the first shots in what could become a global trade war.
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The delivery of houses in Ireland could fall short of the government’s targets in 2025, according to a report by Mitchell McDermott.
This prediction comes off the back of CSO figures which showed that only 30,330 houses were completed in 2024, almost 10,000 lower than the 40,000 target.
Paul Mitchell, Director & Co-Founder of Mitchell McDermott and Kate English, Chief Economist at Deloitte, discussed this with Matt on Thursday’s The Last Word.
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Ireland kick off their 2025 Guinness Six Nations campaign against England this Saturday as they bid to win a historic 3-in-a-row.
Under interim head coach Simon Easterby, how are Ireland’s chances looking, and which players will be putting their hands up ahead of the Lions tour in the summer?
Matt was joined by Fiona Hayes to discuss the weekend’s fixtures.
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DeepSeek, a Chinese owned startup, is disrupting the AI sector amid claims it performs better than other popular technology at a fraction of the price.
Andy O'Donoghue joins The Last Word to explain what DeepSeek does and why it is scaring the world's tech giants.
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On Thursday, Matt was joined by Armando Iannucci, the creator of iconic TV shows like Alan Partride, Veep and The Thick of It.
He discussed his stage adaptation of the Stanley Kubrick classic, 'Dr. Strangelove', which is coming to the Bórd Gáis Energy Theatre on the 5th of February, along with his storied career that spans decades.
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Trevor Birney, journalist, documentary maker and producer of the Kneecap movie, joins The Last Word for the the Culture Club.
He discusses his favourite cultural choices as well as the success of Kneecap and working on the upcoming Saipan movie.
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Robert F Kennedy Jnr, Donald Trump's pick for health secretary, has said he is "not anti-vaccine" and has defended the President's anti-abortion policy during his confirmation hearing at the US Senate.
Marion McKeone, US based journalist joins The Last Word to discuss RFK Jnr's appearance at the tense hearing.
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On Monday, Lady Gaga announced that her new album “Mayhem” will be released on March 7th.
Meanwhile, Forbidden Fruit and Longitude have both revealed the first wave of artists that will play the festivals this summer.
John Caddell & Dee Reddy joined Matt to run through the week's music news.
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The Trump administration's crackdown on illegal immigration has hit major cities across the US and led to mass arrests.
Cal Thomas, nationally syndicated US columnist, and Marion McKeone, US correspondent with the Business Post, join The Last Word to discuss what US President Donald Trump has been doing in his first week back in office.
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Diageo has said it has “no intention” of selling the Guinness brand, following reports last week that it was considering doing so.
Bloomberg News first reported that Diageo was exploring options for Guinness and that its value could be more than $10m.
Ian Guider, Columnist with the Business Post, joined Matt for Monday’s business slot.
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The Allianz National Football League returned this weekend, and it was the first time fans got to see the new rules created by the FRC in an attempt to improve the state of the game.
Which rules were a success, and will teams become more attack-focused because of them?
Matt spoke to former Mayo footballer David Brady and Will O’Callaghan from Off The Ball about what we learned from the weekend’s fixtures.
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- Visa fler
