Morning Ireland

Bringing us to our climate emergency.

On Morning Ireland, Justin spoke to Professor Peter Thorne from Maynooth University about a new global report that found seven of the nine planetary boundaries are being breached.

What are the planetary boundaries and why does crossing them matter? So this

group have come up with these nine planetary boundaries.

And that means instead of a kind of common garden extreme like we've had, we'll have truly remarkable extreme breaking records by two, three, four degrees.

um rainfall like we've never seen that's in our future at some point i just can't tell you which year which month which day the event that really keeps me awake at night would be a storm surge hitting dublin or cork or galway with major major impacts upon us and the longer we sit at the roulette table the more the chance that that's going to happen

Climateologist Professor Peter Thorne on Tuesday's Morning Ireland.

But also on that same programme, how to help people get through the winter with the rising cost of energy bills.

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Is what's happening in Portadown in County Armagh about to bring down the power-sharing government at Stormont? A quick recap.

After nearly 30 years and some of the worst violence witnessed here, the Protestant Orange Order finally were given permission to walk down the mainly Catholic Garvaghy Road.

That's the North's First Minister, Michelle O'Neill.

Well, we're joined now by Sam McBride, Northern Ireland editor with the Sunday Independent and Belfast Telegraph.

Uh, Sam, you're very welcome to Morning Ireland.

Thanks for taking our call.

Uh, what happened in Stormont yesterday? Describe the scenes there, uh, before and after those two politicians were speaking.

We can talk now to Una Keightley, who is co-lead of the Spina Bifida and Hydrocephalus Pediatric Advocacy Group.

Una, you're very good to talk to us, and thank you for joining us on Morning Ireland.

What do you make of a commission of investigation if that recommendation is accepted by the government?

Good morning, Audrey.

If I could

put a choice to you, the Irish Fiscal Advisory Council's Acting Chief Economist Niall Conroy told RT's Morning Ireland that our economy is already performing well and does not need additional support from Budget 2027 as he says it'll lead to higher prices for households and businesses.

Do you concur?

Well, it comes back to that balance.

And Ciarán is also an engineer.

Ciarán and Hannah, thank you both very much for joining us on Morning Ireland today.

Good morning, Gavin.

Ciarán, can I turn to you first? Just for listeners who aren't aware, what is a heat pump and how does it work?

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Gail Conway's here with this morning's business news.

Now, Gail, you're starting with hybrid working.

Even though

we all heard Morning Ireland.

We did.

And he wasn't well.

No, he certainly wasn't.

If you listen back to it, it doesn't sound the worst interview one has ever heard, but I do accuse him, and I taught him this to his face, that there was a crud of casualness about it.

I mean, he's up late, he admits to being up late till after 3am and then he's on Morning Ireland and Peter you have a great listenership which is fantastic but Morning Ireland has had about half a million people listening to it that day and I think a lot of them would have felt this is really not on that the TV's on whether If I was to share the name off air,

you'd know who I'm talking about.

European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen's State of the Union Address suggested that Canada might become an associate member of the EU.

On Thursday's Morning Ireland, Sarah got Le Skinny from Europe editor Tony Connolly.

What has been the reaction to this associate membership idea?

Well, there's been a little bit of disquiet, obviously some enthusiasm, depending on what part of the political spectrum you're from or which member state you're from.