Morning Ireland

Chairperson of Temple Bar group calls for more gardaí in area

Stephen Kennedy, Chair of the Aston Quay and Temple Bar Business and Residents Alliance, reacts to the latest attack in Temple Bar which left a man in critical condition.

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Why is the world fascinated by Punch the Japanese Macaque?

Gerry Creighton, former Operations Manager at Dublin Zoo. discusses Punch the Japanese Macaque, an orphaned baby monkey in Ichikawa City Zoo who only had one friend - an orange orangutan plushie.

"We are a nation of storytellers" - Panel discuss Irish film industry

Ellius Grace, Dublin-based director, writer and photographer, discusses A Song, which is screening at the Dublin International Film Festival. Clare Stronge, Emmy and IFTA winning documentary filmmaker discusses her latest work which was shot in the Beara peninsula. Jade Jordan, actor, appears in four films in the festival.

'Hallmarks of genocide' evident in Darfur, Sudan

Mona Rishmawi, Expert Member of the Fact-Finding Mission, outlines the findings of a new UN report which found the hallmarks of genocide being perpetrated in the Darfur region of Sudan.