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Eric, I was talking to you earlier and listeners haven't heard your answer, so I'm going to ask you again.

I was asking about the meeting of European leaders in Dublin next week.

Obviously, a lot of flights coming in, obviously a lot of media attention on Ireland.

Should we be preparing for something to happen, for more threats like this to happen in the run-up to that meeting?

And that was a great follow-up.

There was a terrible case earlier this week in North Inner City, Dublin, when a family home was targeted.

Was it a petrol bomb?

Yeah, it was a petrol bomb attack that occurred in Clan Brasel close on the early hours of Tuesday morning.

The roof caved in, the whole front of the property was engulfed in ash and smoke and There was an infant in the house and there were also two other young children, I think an eight-year-old and a three-year-old.

A grandmother and a mother and a couple of other members of the family were in the house.

And Kudos to Dublin Fire Brigade.

They arrived within six minutes of the emergency call being made and they helped get people out of the house.

Sure.

Well, I suppose one of the challenges for those of us who spend all of our time in Dublin and a lot of that time in the Dáil, it can become a bit of a bubble.

So the idea of the tour is for me to get into every single constituency in the state.

I'm looking to do that over a kind of a nine or ten month period and to be on the ground, primarily listening, listening to council officials, listening to frontline homeless service workers.

The idea then is when we get round all of the 31 constituencies or 48 constituencies or whatever we have, is then start again and just keep engaging with people to make sure I'm properly equipped to do the job I've been asked to do, which is to be the party's housing spokesperson, offering real alternatives to give people hope that housing can actually be tackled and solved.

Now, in this particular region in the northeast, this radio station serves both Louth and Meath.

Both counties, particularly Meath, actually, has the fastest growing population in the state because of its proximity to Dublin.

So there are some unique challenges in this region, especially in towns like Drogheda.

Now, as I mentioned, flights have been affected over the last few days.

At least 27 were affected yesterday alone, including an Aer Lingus flight flying from Dublin to Rome.

All of these threats have turned out to be hoaxes, but it seems like it is perhaps a coordinated campaign to disrupt European air travel and Europe in general.

Yes, and look, as I said, at the moment, there is nothing to suggest that those who are making the calls are connected.

That's why our Gardaí working with the Defence Forces, working with our cybersecurity team and working with many of our agencies have been very live to the fact that these are potential risks.

So we just have to be vigilant.

Our Gardaí are involved in the current situation and obviously what's happened with the Dublin flight in particular that was travelling to Rome.

But we're very conscious next week we have 55 heads of state that are to travel to Ireland.

In a moment, I'm going to be talking to the Minister for Foreign Affairs, Helen McEntee, about the triple lock, about the hoax bomb threats against airliners.

And we've just received news into us here at LMFM that the RTE campus in Donnybrook in Dublin is has been evacuated after a bomb threat.

Live radio services are off air and Gardaí are at the scene.

So if we get more information on that we will bring it to you.

But the news that we have at this moment is that the RTE campus in Donnybrook in Dublin has been evacuated after a bomb threat.

Live radio services are off the air and Gardaí are at the scene.

If we get more information on that we will bring it to you as soon as possible.

Hi Andrea.

How are you? It was just, it was the worst commute I think I've had since I moved to Dublin.

But it was mostly the start of it, I suppose.

So I got on the train to go out to work train usually takes about a half an hour and the particular line that it is it's constantly oversubscribed as in like people standing like straight the way down the carriages um now I have a vision impairment so I have I walk with a white cane um and I also have endometriosis and pudendal neuralgia so like that causes an issue for me standing Like I'd say when I say to people I'm disabled, like a lot of people probably think, oh, it's the endo or it's the chronic pain.

Do you know what I mean? Because I don't like having to ask people for seats.

Do you know what I mean? It's really embarrassing.

I have to say now, the only time I never have to do it is when I'm on Dublin bus.

For some reason, people are like fighting with each other to get up.

Also on the Irish Times today, the developer Johnny Ronan.

is proposing to build a €55 million innovation hub near the Glass Bottle Scheme in Dublin with a live test bed area for drone delivery and air taxi services.

But the government officials are cool on the plan.

The Irish Independent, dominated by a picture... of russell brand once more and their headline their brand faces more allegations after rape conviction the lead story on the indo today the biggest public service unions have a war chest of at least 100 million euro as their members prepare for a second national strike during a gathering of world leaders next week let's have a look at the irish examiner And the lead story on the examiner, security services assess as credible that Russian intelligence was behind airline hoax bomb threats and supermarket cyber attacks that caused chaos yesterday across Europe, according to the Irish examiner.

And once again, a picture.

of Russell Brand there dominating the front page and their headline on that, downfall of the swaggering sex predator facing many years in jail, financial ruin and new charges as well.

And the lead story on the mail again about those bomb threats that caused flight chaos across Europe yesterday, believed to be driven by Russian attempts to disrupt a high level EU summit due to take place in Dublin this coming week.

So that's a look at what's making headlines on some of your newspapers today.

The last time I attended a cup decider, I stood on the terraces alongside my dad.

I am now 20 years older than he was on that day in 1978, just after I had moved to work in Dublin.

Two more years would pass before I set out on my first diplomatic assignment in India.

I barely arrived in New Delhi when Waterford made it to the 1980 Cup final, in which they recorded their only Cup victory of my lifetime.

I had a full week to wait before the diplomatic bag arrived at the embassy with the Monday papers that revealed the happy news of Waterford's triumph.

I confess that I haven't been to a Waterford game in a few years, although I continue to follow the club's fortunes through social media.

Why then is it so important for me to be there in person this weekend? My first sporting memory goes back to a trip I made to Dublin in my grandfather's car around 1960 to see Waterford play the now defunct Drumcondra at Talca Park.

That was the start of a long enchantment with League of Ireland football.

it's going to be under pressure like all national budgets going forward because effectively what we're doing is we're renationalising our money from the European scenario anymore.

It's going back into a fund in Dublin and somebody in Dublin and your TDs and your councillors there, including the Northwestern Assembly people, are going to have to make these decisions in the future.

What's preference? Is it that Greenway in the Lifford area or is it really ESF funding for the students in the university, the ATU University in Letterkenny? and those are decisions they will be apples and apples when it comes to that decision in the next seven year time I know that there's

already quite concerns about the maintenance sorry Nicola you were going to come in there