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17.32 21 Dec 2020 Here on Newstalk in the run up to the end of 2020, we’ve been looking back at the 20 Most Influential Moments of the Last 20 Years. On a global scale we’ve looked at 9/11, the refugee crisis and the Covid pandemic we’re still battling through. On our shores, we’ve reflected on the Smoking Ban, Repeal the 8th, and Water Charges. We even had the elections of both Barack Obama and Donald Trump, the visit to Ireland by the Queen and Brexit. You’ve been voting over the last few days and today, we revealed that the most influential moment of the two decades is the intro...

18.40 16 Dec 2020 It's another day looking at one of the 20 Most Influential Moments of the last 20 years; and today, it centered on an issue that we are still going through now...the Covid 19 pandemic. Englishman Ade Thomas tells Newstalk Breakfast why he decided to take part in the Oxford vaccine trial. Former Health Minister Simon Harris looks back to the start of the pandemic with Pat Kenny. Andrew Louth joins Andrea Gilligan to reflect on the loss of his grandmother to Covid - and the wider impact on his family. Tom Whipple, Science Editor from The Times London talks to Sean Moncrieff ab...

18.55 15 Dec 2020 We’ve been asking Newstalk listeners what the 20 Most Influential Moments of The Last 20 Years are… Selected so far has been Brexit, the smoking ban, the Queen's Visit, Saipan and water charges. Today we're looking back on the election of Donald Trump in 2016. ******** Seth Barrett Tillman, Law Lecturer at Maynooth University tells CIara Kelly why he thinks we cannot fully grasp the influence of Trump's presidency yet. Pat Kenny speaks to Mike Emanuel, Chief Congressional and Senior Political Correspondent at Fox News about Trump's presidency and how it was covered by th...