Shane McElhatton, Series Editor, Decade of Commemorations, is joined at Dublin Castle by historians David McCullagh and John Gibney, as well as Laura Cahillane, law lecturer at the University of Limerick, to remember the day British rule in Ireland formally came to an end, and the first Irish Govt took up the reins of power

100 years ago, power is formally handed over to new Irish Government

Shane McElhatton, Editor of the Decade of Centenaries, is at the National Concert Hall with historian Jennifer Redmond and researcher Micheál O'Fathartaigh to discuss the ratification of the Treaty there 100 years earlier.

Anglo-Irish Treaty ratified 100 years ago today

Shane McElhatton, RTÉ Series Editor, Decade of Commemorations, discusses the centenary of the Anglo-Irish Treaty with historians Heather Jones and Maurice Walsh, while John S. Doyle reviews the newspapers from the that time

100 years ago, Anglo-Irish Treaty signed

A selection of stories from the week: What's next for Covid?; Survivors criticise Mother and Baby Homes redress scheme; Migrant crisis continues on Polish-Belarus border; Earthquake hits Scotland; Garth Brooks announces Croke Park gigs; Northern Ireland Protocol talks continue; Mary Robinson on COP26; Playdates in a time of Covid

The Week In News

Schoolgirl invades pitch, gets Ronaldo's shirt; What's achieved at COP26?; Businesses like the NI Protocol; Crowds at Belarussian-Polish border; Halve contacts, says NPHET; Kerryman on trial for humanitarian work; Met Éireann supercomputer; Irish art; Antigen testing in schools; Vaccinated people can travel to US; Marvel heroes speak Babylonian

A selection of stories from the week: Four year old Cleo Smith rescued in Western Australia; Taoiseach at COP26; Farmers react to Climate Action Plan; EU fines Poland; Doolin Coastguard stood down; Will your next car be electric?; Is the UK about to trigger Article 16?; ABBA launches first album in 40 year

A selection of stories from the week: Pregnant women urged to get Covid vaccine; Carbon Budget published; How to stop the ticket touts; EU fines Poland €1m per day; National Gallery unveils restored masterpiece; Cian McLaughlin's mum still searching Grand Teton Park; Halloween.

President pays tribute to poets Máire Mhac an tSaoi, Brendan Kennelly; Ireland re-opens; Covid in hospitals; Race inequality in higher education; Baldwin fires prop gun, kills cinematographer; British ex-soldier dies while on trial; Ireland misses emissions target; Wexford Festival Opera; Skeletons in Cork; Mhac an tSaoi and Kennelly remembered

Death of Paddy Moloney; Prof Butler of NIAC on boosters and more; UK pre-empts EU move on NI Protocol; Gardaí renew search for missing women; La Palma volcano erupts again; Bow and arrow attack in Norway; Budget 2022; Banksy shredded painting triples list price; Cricketer Amy Hunter scores century on 16th birthday; Paddy Moloney in his own words

A selection of stories from the week: Ireland signs up to OECD tax deal; Ground-breaking malaria vaccine approved; Childcare protest; New Sláintecare board; Prisoner on the run; Facebook whistleblower addresses Congress; Liffey Swim returns; Call for surrogacy legislation; Govt to send representatives to Armagh; Donal Ryan wins Monnet award

Go in-depth on some of the stories from RTÉ Radio 1's Morning Ireland, Ireland's biggest radio programme. And each Friday listen back to the stories that had the nation talking with 'The Week in News'.

Germany after Merkel, electricity shortages, 96 year old woman on trial for Nazi crimes, third dose of Covid vaccine, gambling addiction, Britney Spears's father suspended from conservatorship, lava in La Palma hits the sea, Dial-A-Seanchaí

A selection of stories from the week: Galway wins All-Ireland camogie title; Govt wins confidence motion in Coveney but political fallout continues; President Higgins declines invitation to Armagh; Afghanistan; Baby John's remains exhumed; Apple; a turtle in a plane; Bella finds her forever home

A selection of stories from the week: Gold for Ireland at the Olympics; Indoor hospitality reopens; Children aged 12+ to be offered Covid vaccine; Vatican fraud trial opens; Hospitals under pressure in the North; Older people and Covid; Man in inflatable rescued; Water cut in Kerry; A week at the Olympics

Olympic Games open in Tokyo; International travel resumes; Indoor dining and drinking to reopen; Homeless soup kitchens fail inspections; Why is it so hot?; Afghanistan is humanitarian catastrophe, says UN; Crack cocaine devastates Ballymun; Uncertainty over number of guests allowed at weddings; How to look cool in the heat

Italy beats England to become Euro 2020 champions; British Govt proposes to end prosecutions for Troubles killings; Zuma arrest sparks days of unrest in South Africa; Scores dead in floods in Germany; No children in indoor dining, advises NPHET; Belarus opposition leader visits Ireland; Domestic abuse; Summer heats up

A selection of stories from the week: England vs Italy in Euro 2020 final; Bonfire night in Northern Ireland; Josepha Madigan reveals sexual assault; Covid hits Travellers disproportionately; EU Digital Covid Cert; Yeats painting finds new permanent home

A selection of stories from the week, as chosen by the Morning Ireland team

A selection of stories from the week, as chosen by the Morning Ireland

The Week In News 

On 22 June 1921, King George V opened Belfast parliament. Shane McElhatton, Series Editor, Decade of Commemorations, comes live from Belfast City Hall with Dr Marie Coleman, Lecturer in Irish History, QUB; Eamon Phoenix, Stranmillis University College; Brian Walker, Prof Emeritus of Irish Studies, QUB; Vincent Kearney, RTÉ Northern Editor

100 years ago: Belfast Parliament inaugurated

DUP in disarray as Poots resigns; G7 ends with statements on Russia and China; China reacts to G7; Mica protesters descend on Dublin; Eriksen, sport and cardiac arrest; Homophobic acts blight Pride month; Irish aviation reels as Stobart shuts down; Public asked not to "rescue" wild baby animals

Morning Ireland Extra

A selection of stories from the week, as chosen by the Morning Ireland team.

Our listeners sent us questions and we put them to our expert panel: Sam McConkey, Associate Professor and Head of the Department of International Health and Tropical Medicine at the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland, Sarah Doyle is a Consultant in Public Health Medicine at the HSE, and Ray Walley, is a GP and former president of the IMO.

Coronavirus: your questions answered

First day of 33rd Dáil; Caroline Flack suicide prompts examination of social media; "Ghost ship" swept ashore in West Cork; Passengers start disembarking Japan coronavirus ship;   Little Museum of Dublin celebrates the Diceman; New post-Brexit immigration rules; 10 year old Donegal boy writes to Jurgen Klopp

Govt seeks 10,000 beds (00:08); Pay for workers during outbreak (5:23); Kids talk about Covid-19 (9:52); Daffodil Day cancelled (15:05); TikTok on consent (20:09); Syrian refugee tells her story (23:56); the search for a vaccine (30:24); Woman killed in hit and run (39:21); Covid-19 travel disruption (42:09); Rise in rental scams (53:23)

Gearoid Gilley, Head of Customer Services at VHI Healthcare, and Consumer Correspondents Fran McNulty and Siobhan Maguire, share solutions to the travel headaches associated with Covid-19

Covid-19: Your questions answered

Where to for Govt formation? (00:08); Council blocks Galway2020 funding (08:20); British EU officials re-badge as Irish (12:28); Facebook delays dating service (18:17); HIQA on maternity services (24:05); Alliance on sacking of Julian Smith (31:05); Victim of homophobic attack (35:49); Funeral of Mulready Woods (42:14); Valentine's Day (44:42)

This week: China's ambassador to Ireland on the coronavirus (00:08), strike action by secondary school teachers (7:47), Galway's drug blizzard (15:44), the impeachment trial of Donald Trump (19:31), the BAFTAs (26:26); scientists meet the traditional Irish harp (30:43)

In the latest episode of Morning Ireland Extra, Cian McCormack checked in with scientists he'd spoken to earlier about the development of a Covid-19 vaccine. He looks at the science, the manufacturing and the ethics

The Race for a Vaccine

Nursing home owner tells of distress over Covid deaths; FG and FF agree roadmap to form Govt; Irishman questioned over Covid scam; Food producers under pressure; Increase in illegal dumping; Struggle of people with disabilities during Covid restrictions; Health insurers part-reimburse premiums; 'Ireland Remembers'; Postcards from our listeners

Cian McCormack spoke to Angela Roberts, originally from Dublin but who has worked as an operating room nurse in New York for the past 23 years, and to Michael Dowling, CEO of Northwell Health, one of the largest healthcare providers in New York state

On the frontline of Covid-19 in New York

Morning Ireland Extra: Cian McCormack speaks to members of the Irish community in New York and hears about the work they're doing to help those on the frontline

New York: Life in the Covid-19 epicentre

How can you shop safely? Should you wash your groceries down when you get home? Cian McCormack spoke to Niall Roche, of the Irish Global Health Network and TCD, as well as Dylan H Morris, a PhD candidate in Ecology and Evolutionary Biology at Princeton University

Supermarkets in the time of Covid-19

Standout stories from the week, chosen by the Morning Ireland team: Latest stats on Covid-19; Govt passes emergency legislation; Opera goes online; What happened in Italy?; Trump says coronavirus over by Easter; McDonalds shuts outlets; Museums and galleries get creative; You Can't Call In But You Can Call

Morning Ireland Extra: Cian McCormack joined in on a WhatsApp conversation between Mick Rush and T. P. O'Gorman to find out more about a new campaign launched by the Irish Men's Sheds Association

You Can't Call In But You Can Call

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