Gript Media Podcasts

TRSI 378 - Merry Christmas, yet again

This week we take aim at the real enemy - peace.

 

https://www.independent.ie/opinion/editorial/editorial-earth-is-too-small-and-life-too-short-for-anything-but-the-pursuit-of-peace/a1684588158.html

 

https://web.archive.org/web/20110726184747/http://www.environ.ie/en/LocalGovernment/Voting/Referenda/PublicationsDocuments/FileDownLoad%2C1894%2Cen.pdf

 

https://www.thejournal.ie/ivana-bacik-care-women-referendum-6256546-Dec2023/

The Week That Really Was 61 - Reviewing the Year

“The hate speech bill was when the tide began to turn” – Sarah and John look back on a year that may be remembered, in decades to come, as one of the most politically eventful in Irish history.

The Week That Really Was 60 - Unspoken Qualms

With surrogacy on the political agenda this week, John and Sarah have a frank discussion about the issues involved, and why they both have deep concerns about surrogacy for money. But first: Aodhan O’Riordain’s flip-flops, and a very predictable last minute COP deal.

TRSI 377 - We’ll know it when you see it

New polling shows the danger of the immigration debate for SF, the Fiscal Advisory Council continues to scream into the void; and a Dail debate on immigration takes a turn for the nasty.

https://www.kildarestreet.com/debates/?id=2023-12-06a.39

The Week That Really Was 59 - The mental load

John and Sarah discuss Helen McEntee’s very broad definition of “far right”, why they’re both voting NO twice on March 8th, and why men are so useless at domestic chores. Also: Paschal Donohoe’s future, and the increase in domestic violence.

The Week That Really Was 58 - Oh look, an elephant

John and Sarah discuss the week that really was, including the background to Gript’s deleted story, and the wider ongoing coverage and cultural concerns around events in Dublin over the past week.

TRSI 376 - A solo run

So let's talk about how people are talking about the riots.

https://gript.ie/mr-martins-pathetic-puska-answer/
https://gript.ie/in-silencing-ryan-casey-the-media-abandons-all-pretence/

The Week That Really Was 57 - Dublin on fire

“They cannot figure out that it is not the “far right” fuelling anti-immigration sentiment in Ireland, it is anti-immigration sentiment fuelling the “far right”. John and Sarah discuss yesterday’s events, and the week that led up to them.

TRSI 375 - One day the sarcasm well will run dry, but today is not that day

In praise of the political courage of Simon Harris and Leo Varadkar; solving the Israel-Hamas affair; and an unhinged rant on energy subsidies.

The Week That Really Was 56 - Were they stoned when they wrote it

John and Sarah discuss RTE’s doom documentary from the future, the broadcaster’s big bailout, Tubridy’s new gig, and why Sarah thinks the new Independent Ireland party is going places.