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Minister with Responsibility for AI Niamh Smyth has been meeting representatives of X about the controversy over generating sexualised images. Earlier, Communications Minister Patrick O'Donovan denied the government's taking a soft approach on tech firms. Brian O'Donovan, RTÉ Work and Technology Correspondent, discussed the latest with Rachael.

A programme developed by researchers at University College Cork has found that educating individuals about the harms of AI identity manipulation can help to stop this problem at source. Rachael spoke to John Twomey, the lead researcher behind the toolkit from UCC's school of Applied Psychology.

Reports about conditions in the country's prisons have highlighted severe overcrowding, poor mental health support and staff shortages. Earlier in the week Justice Minister Jim O'Callaghan told us that fifteen hundred new prison spaces will be provided over the next four to five years. We were joined by Mark Kelly, Chief Inspector of Prisons

The jury into the inquest of George Nkencho have been shown a short video recorded by a passerby who filmed the moment Mr Nkencho was fatally shot by armed gardaí outside his family home in Clonee in December 2020. RTÉ reporter Dimitri O'Donnell told us the latest.

A 48-year-old Garda who assaulted his wife in her childhood home with their young children in the room over thirteen years ago has been given a three-month suspended sentence. Trevor Bolger attacked Margaret Loftus, who was also a Garda, after a family party in October 2012. RTÉ Crime Correspondent Paul Reynolds joined us with details.

A school in Co Antrim has suspended nineteen boys for what it calls 'disruptive and disrespectful behaviour' that led to some substitute teachers refusing to teach and a number of female teachers having to go home because they were so upset. For more Rachael spoke to Vincent Kearney, RTÉ Northern Editor.

The Bray to Greystones Cliff Walk is expected to be closed for another three years according to Wicklow County Council. The Walk has been closed for nearly five years due to landslides, which have left parts of the 7 kilometre route unstable. Peter Murtagh, a member of the Friends of the Cliff Walk Steering Group, spoke to us about the situation.

Elon Musk's company said it will geoblock the abiity of users to undress images, in countries where this is illegal.

Ten serving ministers have not taken steps to repay money they received in error some seven months after the issue first came to light, the Dáil has heard.

Inflation eased slightly last month, but the price of many goods and services continued to rise. In December, prices were up by 2.8% when compared to the same month a year earlier.

A 15-strong French miliary contingent is reported to have arrived in the Greenland capital, as several European states send soldiers as part of a so-called reconnaissance mission.

Britain's Tory Party faced more turmoil today after its leader Kemi Badenoch sacked one of her main rivals, Robert Jenrick.

RTÉ is today marking 100 years of broadcasting with a series of programmes from Dublin's GPO to mark the start of a year of special programmes and events. Patricia Monahan is RTÉ's Director of Audio.

Enoch Burke is to be released from Mountjoy Prison on Wednesday, a High Court judge has ordered. He has been there since November for failing to comply with a court order directing him not to tresspass at Wilson's Hospital School.

It's crunch time for Greenland today, with the US Vice President, JD Vance, holding a summit with the foreign ministers of Denmark and Greenland.

An appeal against a judge's decision to throw out the terrorism case against Kneecap rapper Liam Óg Ó hAnnaidh has begun at the High Court in London.

The inquest into the death of a woman who died after giving birth to a baby boy during a home birth in County Limerick has heard her husband is haunted by what happened to her that night. Laura Liston died hours after giving birth in a birthing pool at her home in Croom in June 2022.

Harsh winter conditions are making life even more difficult for those displaced and left homeless by the war.

The Oireachtas Arts and Media Committee is holding a hearing on the regulation of online platforms. The session comes at a particularly sensitve time, with international debates about Grok, the AI function on X.

Cabinet has been discussing significant reforms to the immigration laws. Minister for Justice, Jim O'Callaghan spoke to Rachel.

The IMNO says this morning 803 people had been admitted to hospital but didn't have a proper bed. Professor Conor Deasy, President of the Irish Association for Emergency Medicine.

Mr Nkencho was twenty-seven years old when he suffered fatal gunshot wounds during an incident involving member of the garda armed support unit outside his family home. Our reporter Dimitri O'Donnell was at the inquest in Dublin's coroner's court.

Nicholas power's mother Alice told an inquest that she had asked for him to be transferred to Crumlin Children's hospital but she felt her requests were disregarded. The coroner returned a verdict of medical misadventure. Roger Murray is the Power family's solicitor, he spoke to Rachel.

For the latest Evelyn O'Rourke our Arts and Media Correspondent

For more on this Paul Reynolds, our Crime Correspondent.

Siavash Ardalan, BBC Persia journalist.

Bernard Phelan travelled to Iran on multiple occassions, intially as a tourist and later while promoting holidays. Bernard spoke to Rachel about his thoughts as news of the protests emerged.

Eabhann O'Connor, a Consultant Urologist and an associate of the European Association Guidelines Committee.

Our reporter Barry Gallagher spoke to locals in Killarney where they are celebrating the victory. Reporter Edel Mcallister spoke to musical theatre director Oliver Hurley and we hear from the RTÉ Guide's movie editor, Michael Doherty.

Our reporter Gavin O'Callaghan was at Clondalkin Garda station.

Our reporter Dimitri O'Donnell spoke to shoppers in Rathmines Dublin and we get the latest developments from Brussels from Tony Connelly.

The Minister for Health Jennifer Carroll McNeill has conceded that people in the regions are having to wait longer for a bed then patients in Dublin.

A warning from the Royal College of Physicians that the country's post-mortem system is in jepardy due to staff shortages. For more on this John Goff, Waterford City Coroner.

Our Deputy Foreign Editor, Edmund Heaphy has the latest.

For the latest our work and technology correspondent, Brian O'Donovan.

For the latest our Political Correspondent, Micheál Lehane, Dr Eoin Drea, senior researcher with the Wilfid Martens Centre for European Studies in Brussels and Seán Canney - independent TD for Galway East and Minister for State in the Department of Transport.

For an American persepective, Todd Robinson who served as acting US Ambassador to Venezuela during Donald Trump's first term.

Researchers from Oxford University found that, on average people who stop using anti- obesity injections regain all the weight they lost within twenty months. For more on this Dimitrios Koutoukidis, Associate Professor of Diet and Obesity at Oxford University.

A prehistoric hillfort in Country Wicklow which scientists believe is the largest nucleated settlement in pre-historic Ireland and Britain. Dr Dirk Brandherm who led the study tells us more.

For the latest on this our Europe editor, Tony Connelly.

Tony Geraghty, retired Naval Commander

For more on this Danish MP Trine Mach and member of the Parliament's Greenland Committee.