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Morning Ireland Friday 21 February 2020

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Full Programme Podcast: Friday, 21st February 2020

Live news, sports, weather and traffic, presented by Audrey Carville and Bryan Dobson.

Health, social care workers in strike over pay restoration

Sharon Cregan, SIPTU official in Cork, on the 24 hour strike involving health and social care workers

Coveney to meet new Northern Secretary at Stormont

Tommie Gorman, Northern Editor, previews the first meeting later today between Tanaiste Simon Coveney and the new Northern Ireland Secretary, Brandon Lewis.

Stone given prison term for lying to Congress inquiry

Suzanne Lynch, Irish Times Washington Correspondent, on the sentencing of Roger Stone to 40 months in prison.

Turkish soldiers killed in Syrian govt airstrikes

Jasper Mortimer, freelance journalist in Ankara, discusses the latest in Idlib as tensions heighten between Russia and Turkey.

UK immigration plans target unskilled workers

Dr Connor Patterson, Chief Executive of Newry and Mourne Enterprise Office; and Mícheál Briody, MD of Silverhill Foods, discuss the implications of the UK's new immigration policy to be implemented next year.

Varadkar, Martin agree to meet for exploratory talks

Sandra Hurley reports on the first sitting of the 33rd Dail which has been adjourned until March 5th after deputies failed to elect a new Taoiseach yesterday. Fionnan Sheahan, Irish Independent's Ireland editor, on where we go now.

Diceman exhibition celebrates Grafton St 'High King'

Sinéad Crowley, Arts and Media Correspondent, reports that a new exhibition celebrating the life of the man once known as the "High King of Grafton Street" has opened at the Little Museum of Dublin on St Stephen's Green.