Drivetime Tuesday 9 April 2019
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Mary Wilson presents an information packed evening news magazine with all the stories of the day
Solicitors and Prisoners
Frank Buttimer, Cork based solicitor with experience of criminal trials, talks to Mary about the relationship between solicitors and their clients, after a solicitor was given a 12 month suspended jail sentence for allowing her mobile phone to be used by a prisoner at the Midlands Prison.
Israeli Election
Drivetime's Philip Boucher Hayes reports on the elections in Israel.
Children's Hospital Report
Susan Mitchell, Sunday Business Post Health Editor, Orla Hegarty, Assistant Professor with the School of Architecture in UCD, and Alan Kelly, Labour Spokesperson on Health, discuss the key findings of a review into the escalating costs of the National Children's Hospital.
Unregulated Medecine
Kate O'Connell, Fine Gael TD for Dublin Bay South, talks about a new bill that proposes penalties of up to one million euro for offenders who advertise fake or unregulated treatments for cancer.
FAI Funding Suspension
Noel Rock, Fine Gael T.D. for Dublin North West and member of Oireachtas Sports Committee, reacts to the news that Sport Ireland is to suspend and withhold future funding from the Football Association of Ireland.
Sudan Protest
Fergal Keane, BBC Africa Editor, reports on protests that have been taking place outside the Sudan's army headquarters demanding that President Omar Al-Bashir step down.
Olivia's Column
Olivia O'Leary remembers Sally O'Neill, a leading figure in the overseas development organisation Trócaire, in her weekly column.
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Limerick City Changes
Niamh Hourigan, Sociologist and Professor at Mary Immaculate College and author of 'Understanding Limerick', and David Raleigh, Journalist based in Limerick, discuss the social changes that have taken place in Limerick city over the past ten years.
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Programme Highlights
Olivia O'Leary
In her weekly political column, Olivia O'Leary asks why Ireland doesn't have a big, ultra nationalist, anti immigrant party.
PrinterGate
Philip Boucher-Hayes gets a guided tour of a Komori printer similar to the one at the centre of the Dail controversy.
Tom Clonan
Tom Clonan, security analyst, talks to Mary his experiences of being a whistleblower in the Irish army.
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Presenter: Mary Wilson