The Claire Byrne Show

Welcome to The Debrief, where we look back on some of the biggest stories of the week.
Joining Claire this morning was BBC Dublin Correspondent, Gabija Gataveckaite, Columnist and Author, Carl Kinsella and Journalist and Consumer Columnist with The Irish Examiner, Caitriona Redmond.

It’s week two of the Celebrity Traitors on the BBC and last night Richard E Grant was banished, after he told them all he was a Traitor.
Melanie Finn from the Irish Independent has been following it all for us:

We take a look ahead to the weekend of sport with Phil Egan from Off The Ball.

Our oceans have sustained us for centuries. Yet the seas that surround us are under mounting pressure from warming waters and over-exploitation.
That is one of the arguments of Mark Mellett who is a retired Irish Naval Service vice admiral, and former Chief of Staff at the Irish Defence Forces. Mark has written as ew book entitled “Blue Heart : War, Climate and the Battle for the Ocean that Keeps us Alive”.

The US secretary of war Pete Hegseth said an upcoming firing-squad execution will be live streamed. A former army major who killed 13 people in a mass shooting will be killed by firing squad in December.
With reaction to this story Claire was joined by Human rights lawyer and campaigner Noeline Blackwell and Chair of Democrats Abroad Ireland Ryan Friesen.