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Ireland
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News & Politics Podcasts
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Podcasts uploaded by gript.ie
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English
Episodes
Meet the Candidates: Derek Blighe, Ireland First - EP5
5/22/2024
In the latest in his candidate interview series ahead of the June 7th local and EU elections, John McGuirk chats to Derek Blighe, leader of the new Ireland First party. They discuss what it means to be "far right", what to do about energy, and much more:
Duración:00:39:41
Meet the Candidates: Mary Fitzgibbon, Independent, Ireland South - EP 4
5/20/2024
Ahead of the June 7th EU elections, John McGuirk talks to long-shot Independent candidate for Ireland South Mary Fitzgibbon about whether she has a real chance to win, why she says we all need to have more children, and why reversing emigration is important to her as a parent.
Duración:00:35:41
Meet the Candidates: Peter Casey, Independent - EP 3
5/18/2024
Ahead of the June 7th EU elections, John McGuirk talks Independent candidate Peter Casey about why Ireland isn't neutral; why he plans to seek the Presidency again if elected; and what he thinks he can achieve as an MEP.
Duración:00:35:07
The Week That Really Was 82 - Nobody hates you like somebody who loved you
5/17/2024
PODCAST: Are Sinn Fein irretrievably done for with working class voters who feel betrayed? Did we over-react to the Dublin Portal hijinks? And Sarah explains why she'd always prefer a man to a bear.
Duración:00:51:20
Meet the Candidates: Hermann Kelly, Irish Freedom Party - EP 2
5/15/2024
In the second of a series of interviews with candidates ahead of the June 7th EU elections, John McGuirk talks to the Irish Freedom Party's Hermann Kelly about leaving the EU; Why he would let most EU migrants already here remain; and why he's "an ecologist, not a green".
Duración:00:41:57
Meet the candidates: Peadar Toibin, Aontu - EP 1
5/13/2024
In the first of a series of interviews with candidates ahead of the June 7th EU elections, John McGuirk talks to Aontu leader Peadar Toibin about immigration, candidates, war, peace, farming, Palestine, and why he's going to personally run in two elections less than a year apart.
Duración:00:38:44
TRSI 395 - Bastiat's asylum seeker shanty town
5/12/2024
RTE struggle to understand firearms; a new poll says Independents and Others are more popular than any party, at least in the European elections; and the Garda release new figures on hate crime, but it may shock you to hear that they don't really stand up.
Duración:01:11:43
The Week That Really Was 81 - Doomsday Views
5/10/2024
John and Sarah discuss whether there's merit in chemical castration for paedophiles; What to make of Bambie Thug and Eurovision; Javier Millei's astonishing success in Argentina; and general European and Local election chat.
Duración:00:55:25
TRSI 394 - Helen McEntee or, as some may call her, the albatross
5/6/2024
It's been an abysmal week for the Government as polls show massive levels of discontent with immigration policies, and that hasn't been helped by Minister Helen McEntee's seemingly endless public ineptitude.
Duración:00:54:33
The Week That Really Was 80 - Perfidious Albion
5/3/2024
John and Sarah review the week, including Ireland's renewed - if conveniently timed - war with Britain on immigration; reflections on the battle of Newtownmountkennedy; whether the polls are to be believed; and is the cost of living being ignored?
Duración:00:55:30
TRSI 393 - The bears demand blood
4/28/2024
We're told that 80% of asylum seekers are coming through Northern Ireland, but actual evidence for that is unclear; and a new poll indicates people are poorer, less interested in the enviroment, and just generally not having a good time.
https://www.kildarestreet.com/committees/?id=2024-04-23a.884
Duración:00:57:29
The Week That Really Was 79 - The Elephant in the Room
4/26/2024
Sarah Ryan explains to John McGuirk why she has decided to manage Niall Boylan's EU election campaign. Also, they talk about events at the Oireachtas committee on immigration, Helen McEntee's bad week, and are smartphones the new "microchipping"?
Duración:00:54:44
TRSI 392 - And you thought we'd forgotten
4/22/2024
Claims that boys are having anti-women content thrown at them by algorithms aren't all that solid; and what do the FOI documents released by the Department of Justice tell us about the recent referendums?
Duración:00:57:02
The Week That Really Was 78 - The Cass Report, with Helen Joyce
4/19/2024
Bestselling author, Journalist, and now campaigner Helen Joyce joins John and Sarah to explain the contents of the Cass Review into the treatment of "transgender" children, and the wider implications of transgender ideology on western society.
Duración:01:08:56
TRSI 391 - It's not about morality, it's about power
4/14/2024
Harris manages to appear weak less than a week into the job; SF's internal issues; and Ireland tries its hand at some serious geopolitics.
https://twitter.com/johnkvallis/status/1779303075364442585
https://www.independent.ie/irish-news/how-frances-fitzgerald-and-a-fear-of-the-civil-service-saved-helen-mcentees-job/a2056415841.html
Duración:01:01:59
The Week That Really Was 77 - Satan Lives
4/12/2024
John and Sarah discuss Simon Harris's cowardly reshuffle, the desired return of Kate O'Connell to frontline politics, the Cass Review, and the state of abortion politics, stateside.
Duración:00:50:06
TRSI 390 - Horses and sparrows
4/7/2024
The urge to lower taxes and brutalise criminals; new polling; and the feasibility of a HSE for asylum seekers.
Duración:00:50:24
The Week That Really Was 76 - Two stuttering wafflers who say nothing
4/5/2024
John and Sarah talk JK Rowling's defiance of the Scottish Government, The Government's incestuous relationships with journovisors, the costs of a United Ireland, Sinn Fein's loss of "middle finger status", and checking in on Trump v Biden.
Duración:01:11:44
TRSI 389 - You're going to be left holding either the bag or the knife
4/2/2024
With FG struggling to get independents to sign up to support the coronation of Simon Harris all it would take is a few Fianna Fail TD to end his reign before it begins.
Duración:00:32:52
The Week That Really Was 75 - Identity Crisis
3/29/2024
John and Sarah discuss how the week-long debate on the Hate Speech Bill underlines the identity crisis facing Ireland's politicians; The possibly permanent loss of Sinn Fein's mojo; and why Assisted Suicide absolutely is a slippery slope, and one that cannot be escaped.
Duración:01:04:09