Gript Media Podcasts

The Week That Really Was 66 - Crime and no punishment

John and Sarah review some of the sentences from the Irish courts in January, and conclude that it’s a good time to be a criminal in Ireland. Also: Is politics putting women off dating, and are Sinn Fein in serious decline?

The Week That Really Was 65 - A carnival of nonsense

A dumb new RTÉ funding plan, a stupid controversy over the Oscars, confusion from the electoral commission, and a covid enquiry that won’t blame anybody: The week was a carnival of nonsense, says Sarah Ryan, and John finds it hard to disagree.

TRSI 381 - Malcolm Byrne reminds us he can still throw a punch

The Business Post reports that COVID-era debt warehousing is going to be extended; Garda made 0 criminal checks against EURODAC between 2015 and the start of 2023; and Malcolm Byrne seems unhappy with Gript.

 

Fianna Fail candidate feels 'shame and regret' over 'striking out' at female friend at college | Independent.ie

The Week That Really Was 64 - The things you’re supposed to think

John and Sarah discuss Javier Millei and the World Economic Forum, and how Argentina’s President is confounding expectations. Also, Roderic O’Gorman and Throuples, Roscrea’s community hotel, and Jordan Petersen’s re-education.

TRSI 380 - Politics as golf

The argument for the new referendums seems to be that we need to change the constitution so that the courts can figure out what it was we actually voted on; we suggust putting the referendums before two important elections was perhaps not wise; and polling indicates that over 70% of the country are now anti-immigration extremists.

The Week That Really Was 63 - Unvetted

John and Sarah discuss the latest developments in Ireland’s widening immigration debate, including the vexxed question of whether it’s justified to be worried about “unvetted migrant men”. Also: a heated debate about whether historic sex crime trials can ever be fair.

TRSI 379 - Here we go again

The referendum to remove women from the constitution has a kicker for carers; a Dutch study shows immigrants are not all born, financially, equal; and SF want to bring Dublin house prices to 300,000 - a level not seen since the crash.  

https://demo-demo.nl/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/Borderless_Welfare_State-2.pdf
https://data.oireachtas.ie/ie/oireachtas/libraryResearch/2024/2024-01-03_bill-digest-thirty-ninth-amendment-of-the-constitution-the-family-bill-2023_en.pdf

The Week That Really Was 62 - New Year, Same old us

John and Sarah discuss how Ozempic has made new years resolutions moot for both of them, and also, share their predictions for the year ahead, featuring plenty of misery for the Irish Government.

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.