This week, the United States reported its highest number of measles cases in 33 years. Across Europe, outbreaks are spreading in countries like France, Spain, Italy, and the Netherlands. Now, Irish health officials are urging caution for holidaymakers heading to affected regions.

Meanwhile, a major new report in The Lancet reveals that Ireland has the second-lowest rate of childhood vaccination in Western Europe — raising urgent questions about how vulnerable we really are to a domestic outbreak.

On Newstalk Daily, Ciara Doherty is joined by immunologist Professor Luke O’Neill, host of the Show Me the Science podcast, to discuss:

Why measles is surging again worldwide

How vaccine hesitancy — and misinformation — could be fuelling the rise

The controversial influence of US health secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.

And how social media is shaping public opinion on childhood vaccines

🎧 Listen to Luke’s podcast – and every episode of Newstalk Daily – on the GoLoud app or at newstalk.com.

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Twenty years ago today, 52 people were killed and more than 700 injured in the deadliest terrorist attack on British soil since the Second World War. On July 7th, 2005, four young British men—Mohammad Sidique Khan, Shehzad Tanweer, Hasib Hussain, and Germaine Lindsay—detonated homemade explosives, carried in backpacks, in coordinated suicide bombings on the London Underground and a double-decker bus.

On today’s Newstalk Daily, Ciara Doherty asks:

• What drove these young men to commit such horrifying acts?

• What happens inside the mind of a suicide bomber?

• And how did the 7/7 attacks reshape London, and Britain as a whole?

Ciara is joined by:

• Adam Wishart, documentary filmmaker and co-author of Three Weeks in July, a new book investigating the London bombings.

• Dr Paul Gill, Professor of Security and Crime Science at University College London, who studies the psychology and pathways of radicalisation.

Three Weeks in July by Adam Wishart and James Nally is published by Mudlark.

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Oasis will take to the stage tonight at the Principality Stadium in Cardiff to begin an mammoth, 41-night stadium tour, estimated to earn Liam and Noel Gallagher a cool £50 million each. The Mancunian brothers last performed together in 2009, but have patched-up their differences for the Oasis Live ’25 tour, which will visit Ireland for two, sold-out dates at Croke Park in August.

In this episode of Newstalk Daily, Ciara Doherty and her guests return to the Britpop era, recalling the band’s massive run of hits in the mid-1990s, the rivalry with Blur, the endless rows between the Gallagher siblings, and the reasons why their music reached a global audience. They also consider whether or not this reunion tour is a shameless money-grabbing effort, designed to pay-off divorce debts or bulk-up their retirement funds!

Ciara’s guests are Simon Maher, founder of 8Radio.com, and Oasis uber-fan Shauna O’Reilly from the Today FM Breakfast Show.

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