Waterford bus drivers concerns about their protection from coronavirus while on driving duty AND the surreal images beamed across the world from Washington's Capitol Hill last night...
On this morning's Deise Today, Damien Tiernan looked at events both close to home and Stateside.
Darren Ryan, Waterford bus driver, and Tom O'Connor, Bus Eireann from the National Bus and Rail Union spoke about concerns public transport drivers currently have about the high covid-19 case numbers and the risks presented to them by going to work and dealing with the public.
You can listen to both of them by clicking below here...
On the shocking situation at Capitol Hill, world politics lecturer Gerry Arthurs and former Los Angeles-based journalist Russ Parsons spoke to Damien about what has happened - and what's likely to happen now, in these difficult times for the United States.
Waterford Leaving Cert students Emily Power (St Declan's Community College, Kilmacthomas), David Corcoran (De La Salle), Ciara Buckley (Yeats College) and Conor McCloskey (Waterpark) gave their reaction to the plan to have Leaving Cert students return to the classroom next week for three days per week.
Sinn Fein health spokesperson David Cullinane spoke about the incidence here of the new strain of coronavirus which has already wreaked such havoc in the UK.
And...are house landlines redundant now?! Listener John told Damien about the trouble he had renewing his car tax online - while trying to input his landline number!
You can listen back to the full show from this morning by clicking below here...
