Budget Reaction
The dust is still settling on today’s Budget and tomorrow will be a day for reaction and grabs at political capital. Stick with us on-air and online throughout the day for regular updates on all of the Budget reaction from groups across Ireland.
Health Minister Leo Varadkar and Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation Richard Bruton will both speak to Newstalk Breakfast on Wednesday morning to give their reaction to this Tuesday’s presentation by Ministers Noonan and Howlin.
Reaction to Ireland’s dramatic last gasp equaliser in Germany
If the sight of a government spending money on something beside debt wasn’t enough to get the nostalgia flowing for you, then surely Ireland scoring a last minute equaliser away to the world champions had you stumbling, dazed, all the way back to the last millennium. Oh, and Roddy Doyle is the nation’s undisputed literary powerhouse once more.
So, to look back at a remarkable, and slightly baffling, score-line in Gelsenkirchen we’ll have John Giles on tomorrow’s Breakfast show to give us his considered reaction to a night that could have a major bearing on Irish camper van sales in the summer months of 2016.
Ebola
The UK has begun screening at airports, while the United Nations has warned the world has 60 days to get Ebola under control or face an unwinnable battle.
"The WHO advises within 60 days we must ensure 70% of infected people are in a care facility and 70% of burials are done without causing further infection," said Anthony Banbury, the UN's deputy ebola coordinator.
"We need to do that within 60 days from 1 October. If we reach these targets then we can turn this epidemic around."
But Mr Banbury told the UN Security Council the 70% target was becoming harder to meet as new infections stack up.
He urged: "We either stop Ebola now or we face an entirely unprecedented situation for which we do not have a plan."
The UN's Unmeer emergency mission is following a four-pronged plan to fight Ebola.
Identify and trace contacts; manage cases; ensure safe burials and provide people with information to protect themselves.
"If we fail at any of these, we fail entirely," warned Mr Banbury.
Tomorrow morning a representative from the World Health Organisation will speak with Newtalk Breakfast for an update on the effort to combat the disease.
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