Drivetime

Reporter John Cooke has been out and about along the Waterford Quays to meet with voters.

Drivetime is on the road again and today Cormac is in the Waterford constituency. The candidates in studio are Sinn Féin's Conor McGuinness, Marc Ó Cathasaigh of the Green Party, Independent Matt Shanahan, Social Democrats Mary Roche, Fianna Fáil's Mary Butler and Fine Gael's John Cummins.

"Evolving Manhood: Attitudes, Influence, and Well-being Among Irish Men” was launched today as part of Women's Aid 50 year anniversary. Sarah speaks to CEO of Women’s Aid Sarah Benson and Richard Hogan, psychotherapist and author.

Former Commissioner of the New York City Department of Transportation, Janette Sadik-Khan is here in Dublin to address the city's transportation stakeholders and business community.

Food prices in Gaza have surged following the looting of nearly 100 aid trucks, compounding an already dire food crisis caused by over a year of conflict between Israel and Hamas. We hear from World Health Organisation spokesperson Dr Margaret Harris.

Cormac is in RTE's Cork studio where we're looking at the constituency of Cork North Central. The canditates in studio are Fianna Fail's Pádraig O'Sullivan; Fine Gael's Colm Burke; Sinn Fein's Joe Lynch; People Before Profit-Solidarity Mick Barry and Ken O’Flynn of Independent Ireland.

Ukraine has fired UK supplied long-range Storm Shadow missiles at Russian targets for the first time, the BBC understands. We hear from Concern’s Head of Emergencies Ros O’Sullivan in Kyiv and get the latest military developments from reporter and presenter Lewis Goodall.

Time and again, actors seem to fail to make the grade when to comes to speaking in an Irish accent. According to research that has been published in the journal of Evolutionary Human Sciences, we Irish are particularly adept at figuring out a fake accent. To tell us more, one of the researchers Jonathan Goodman from the University of Cambridge.

Russia has claimed that Ukrainian troops have launched a missile attack against a Russian border region. For the latest on the escalation of tensions between Russia and Ukraine, James Waterhouse, BBC's Kyiv correspondent & Hamish De Bretton-Gordon, former commander of the UK & NATO Chemical, Biological, Radiological and Nuclear Forces

A leading hotelier claimed today the Government here has a “complete lack of understanding of how business works” and is turning Ireland into another Switzerland in terms of prices. With Des O’Dowd, owner of Inchydoney Island Lodge and Spa in West Cork and Greg Ennis, Deputy General Secretary with responsibility for the private sector in SIPTU

As Drivetime continues to travel the country ahead of General Election 2024, this evening we're hearing from the Kerry Constituency where our reporter John Cooke has been speaking with voters in the town of Tralee.

Amid the ongoing war in Gaza, hospitals are at the sharp end of the conflict. Dr Nabeel Rana is a vascular surgeon and he recently completed a month-long MedGlobal volunteer mission in Gaza in hospitals in Khan Yunis and Deir al-Balah.

Ukraine has marked one thousand days since Russia's full-scale invasion today with weary troops battling on numerous fronts. Aid agencies continue to provide medical support in the region. Christopher Stokes is Médecins Sans Frontières/Doctors Without Borders Emergency Coordinator in Ukraine.

US President Joe Biden has given the green light to Ukraine to use US long-range missiles inside Russia. We hear reaction from Kira Rudik, Member of the Ukrainian Parliament and leader of the Holos political party; and Geoffrey Roberts, Professor Emeritus of History at University College Cork.

We're focusing on the constituency of Dublin Central today, a diverse constituency at the heart of the capital. We've got two panels of candidates. Part one is Gary Gannon from the Social Democrats, Paschal Donohoe from Fine Gael, Clare Daly from Independents4Change and Janice Boylan from Sinn Féin.