Newstalk Breakfast

Food suggestions are all well and good and mostly harmless, but when they shift into health-related claims, real risks can appear.  As the internet is able of producing one opinion and its opposite, Gail Caroll Director of Regulatory Affairs and Compliance Building at the Food Safety Authority Ireland warns that some words may be too good to be true.

Sinn Féin TD Aengus Ó Snodaigh has introduced a bill aiming to protect people’s right to have their Irish names and addresses recorded correctly with fadas. Speaking to Anton this morning was Cathal Wogan, Spokesperson for “I am not a typo” Campaign. 

Trump responds to Iranian claims that ground invasion would be 'big disaster'. We get the latest as the Iran war enters its 7th day with David Smith, Washington Bureau Chief, The Guardian.  

Yesterday in the High Court, Mr Justice Brian Cregan ordered that Enoch Burkes’ mother, Martine and Sister Ammi are to be arrested and committed to prison for contempt of court for a period of two weeks.  But what will their detention look like and why is it different to Enoch? Joining Anton to explain why was Former Mountjoy Governor John Lonergan. 

Lies are a fact of life and getting ever more common, but how can you spot them? All to chat about with Dr Kirsty King, Forensic linguist and author of 'The Language of Lies' which is out today. 

A primary school in Celbridge, Co Kildare is to close from today after “a number of fire safety and building compliance issues” requiring urgent attention were identified. Parents of the approximately 400 pupils at St Patrick’s Primary School on Hazelhatch Road were informed by the board of management yesterday. Michelle McDonagh, who’s two children attend the national school spoke to Anton about the situation.

Speaking to Anton this morning John Simpson the BBC World Affairs Editor on the crisis in the Middle East.

There were tears of emotion as 384 passengers arrived home from Dubai last night.  Emirates Flight EK 163 touched down at Dublin Airport at 10.45pm, and our reporter Henry McKean spoke to some of the passengers about what they experienced. But what happens next for the thousands of other Irish citizens still stranded in the region? Anton asked Neale Richmond, Minister of State with responsibility for International Development and Diaspora and Fine Gael TD for Dublin Rathdown.

St Patrick’s Day is around the corner, and with that, you’ll probably see a lot more green. But some decorations for Paddy’s Day are less inspiring and more insulting, according to John Crotty, Historian and author of “The Irish Tricolour”.

A new report was published by the Catholic bishops that indicates despite all the social change and the money Ireland is still one of most religious countries in western Europe.  But it also showed that among Irish 16- to 29-year-old 42 per cent said they had no religion. So are we really still a religious society or has our faith fallen by the way side?  Anton asked , Parish Priest in Fethard, County Tipperary Father Iggy O’Donovan.