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Latest Silvercrest developments "very serious"

Matt Dempsey, editor of the Irish Farmer's Journal, reacts to the decision by Tesco and Co-Op to stop sourcing beef burgers from the Silvercrest plant in Co Monaghan

More questions over horse meat scandal

Anne McIntosh, Conservative MP for Thirsk and Malton and Chair of the Environment Food and Rural Affairs Committee at Westminster, assesses the performance of Tesco's technical director Tim Smith at the committee yesterday

Call for more meat processing plant inspections

John Bryan, President of the IFA, assesses the impact of the latest developments on Irish farmers

ESRI predicts weaker economic growth then forecast

David Duffy, Research Officer with the Economic and Social Research Institute, discusses the latest Quarterly Economic Commentary

New mental health guidelines to be published for schools

Betty McLaughlin, spokesperson for the Institute of Guidance Counsellors, questions the cut to funding to guidance counsellors as new national guidelines on promoting positive mental health and suicide prevention in post-primary schools are published

Students discuss problems associated with mental health

Emma O'Kelly, RTÉ Education Correspondent, speaks to Transition Year boys at Coláiste Phádraig in Lucan in Dublin

Minister to launch new guidelines for schools

Kathleen Lynch, Minister of State for Disability, Older People, Equality and Mental Health, unveils the new guidelines

Syria claims there's been Israeli air-attack on its territory

Dan Williams, Senior Reuters correspondent in Israel and the Palestinian territories, reports on an attack of a convoy near Syria's border with Lebanon, in what some called a warning to Damascus not to arm Israel's Lebanese enemy

Campaign about street-begging launched by Dublin businesses

Richard Guiney, chief executive of Dublin City Business Improvement District, urges members of the public to directly support registered charities through a number of 'giving boxes' in the city rather than giving money to people begging on the street

Almost 100 Garda stations to close today

Joan O'Sullivan reports from one of the communities effected by the closure 95 Garda stations today

Dáil motion to keep Garda stations open defeated

David McCullagh reports on the Dáil debate on Fianna Fáil's motion opposing closing of Garda stations, with clips of speeches by FF's Charlie McConalogue and Fine Gael's Michelle Mulherrin

Bruce Springsteen to play two dates in Kilkenny

Peter Aiken, of Aiken Promotions, on the news that Bruce Springsteen is to play another two dates in Ireland next summer - this time in Kilkenny

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