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On Friday, the Government increased grants to small businesses from €20,000 to €100,000. In a new approach, hundreds of Red Cross volunteers have been knocking on doors alerting people impacted by flooding about their entitlements. Eithne Dodd reports from Enniscorthy with some of those volunteers.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Syria's government and Kurdish forces have reached a comprehensive agreement that includes the gradual integration of the Kurds' forces and administration into the central state. We talk to two Kurds in Ireland (Jude Bakar & Jhe -an Phelan) and correspondent Jasper Mortimer.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

In the latest of our interviews with the leaders of parties in the Dáil, we're joined from our Cork studio by deputy Michael Collins who is leader of Independent Ireland.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

In the next of our interviews with leaders of the Dáil's political parties, we're joined in studio by People Before Profit - Solidarity's Ruth Coppinger.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Tomorrow, Pope Leo XIV will hold a private audience with abuse survivor David Ryan who featured in the RTÉ Radio documentary Blackrock Boys. We hear from Deidre Kenny of One in Four, who will accompany David on the trip.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

US President Donald Trump announced on Friday that his nominee to become the next chief of the Federal Reserve is Kevin Warsh. We speak to Patrick Honohan, former Governor of the Irish Central BankSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

After bombarding Ukraine's energy network for months, Russian airstrikes knocked out power for over a million people amid subzero temperatures. Emannuelle Chaze, journalist in Ukraine.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Ivan Bacik, Labour Leader on how to handle Trump, the possibility of a United Left and the EUSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Sean Murray, Irish Examiner, reports from Minneapolis where a protestor and US citizen, Alex Pretti, was tackled by masked ICE agents yesterday and then shot dead.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

This week, six Irish people received an Oscar nomination - Jessie Buckley, John Kelly, Richard Baneham, Maggie O’Farrell, Ed Guiney and Andrew Lowe. Two Irish film studios - Element Pictures and Wild Atlantic Pictures – saw their respective movies Bugonia and Blue Moon nominated. Eithne Dodd, RTÉ ReporterSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

An opinion poll suggests that one in 10 Irish people - aged between 18 and 29 - believe that the Holocaust is a “myth". We speak to Holocaust survivor Suzi Diamond and chair of Holocaust Education Ireland Tom O'DowdSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Suzanne Lynch, Brussels Bureau Chief at Bloomberg and Professor John McHale - Head of Economics at the University of Galway give an outlook ahead of this afternoons meeting of EU Ambassadors. The meeting is to assess how to respond to Donald Trump's threat to sanction 8 European countries for getting in his way to take over Greenland.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

BBC's Middle East Analyst, Sebastian Usher on the brutal crackdown by the authorities, which reportedly led to the death of thousands and has appeared to have crushed nationwide protests.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Uachtaráin Fianna Fáil, an Taoiseach Micheál Martin on Trumps move on Greenland, Homelessness and Grok's AI.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Our reporter Eithne Dodd visited two salt marshes recently - in Cork and DublinSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.