Morning Ireland

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New universal social charge proposed

Brian Nolan, Professor of Public Policy at UCD, outlines the research from a new ESRI paper which says a new charge could combine PRSI and the health and income levies

Dingle Hospital set to open

Derry Murphy, Dingle Hospital Action Group, explains why the hospital did not get a certificate of registration from HIQA until now

First patient treated in US stem cell trial

Dr Orla Hardiman, Irish Stem Cell Foundation, explains the significance of the breakthrough

An Bord Snip Nua: Health

Paul Ferris looks at proposals by 'An Bord Snip Nua' in the area of health

EC to examine Govt's four-year budgetary plan

Amadeu Altafaj Tardio, spokesman for Commissioner Olli Rehn, discusses how much leeway any future Government will have in changing the four-year plan

David Murphy, Business Editor, says Minister for Finance Brian Lenihan has told US media he is absolutely sure Ireland will not need to seek an IMF bailout

Real IRA arms uncovered

Paul Reynolds, Crime Correspondent, reports that gardaí have discovered a Real IRA arms and ammunition dump in Co Louth

Man Booker Prize winner to be announced

Emma Donoghue, whose book 'Room' has been nominated for the Man Booker Fiction Prize, describes how it feels to be shortlisted

Operatic great dies

Veronica Dunne, soprano, pays tribute to her friend Dame Joan Sutherland one of the greatest operatic sopranos of the 20th Century, who died yesterday age 83