Episodes

Sunday Mar 05, 2023
TRSI 349 - Time and space, causality and consequence
Sunday Mar 05, 2023
Sunday Mar 05, 2023
We're not saying to burn down your house for the insurance money, we're just saying you'd probably get away with it.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kz_lzEhyryY

Friday Mar 03, 2023
The Week That Really Was 19 - The dangerous Mary Kenny
Friday Mar 03, 2023
Friday Mar 03, 2023
"The conversation University of Limerick thought was too dangerous for students to hear: John and Sarah sit down with Mary Kenny to discuss the state of modern feminism"

Sunday Feb 26, 2023
TRSI 348 - Let me contextualise that for you
Sunday Feb 26, 2023
Sunday Feb 26, 2023
El Salvador brutalises criminals and sees crime fall dramatically; tidy towns are Ireland's shield against fascism; and NPHET's decisions may not have been entirely scientific.
https://data.oireachtas.ie/ie/oireachtas/debateRecord/joint_committee_on_children_equality_disability_integration_and_youth/2023-02-21/debate/mul@/main.pdf
https://www.independent.ie/irish-news/health/school-closures-and-nursing-home-visitor-bans-were-inhumane-nphet-member-breaks-ranks-on-our-covid-response-42356712.html
https://www.independent.ie/regionals/dublin/dublin-news/explainer-the-covid-pandemic-is-over-so-why-are-more-people-dying-42357365.html

Friday Feb 24, 2023
The Week That Really Was 18 - Better than the slap of a wet fish?
Friday Feb 24, 2023
Friday Feb 24, 2023
John and Sarah discuss the cost of living package, the growing unaffordability of life in Ireland, as well as Katharine Zappone's Poetry and Roald Dahl's dangerous books:

Sunday Feb 19, 2023
TRSI 347 - It’s good money if you can stomach the work
Sunday Feb 19, 2023
Sunday Feb 19, 2023
Media trust in Ireland is between 6% and 52% depending on who you ask; the new government-backed survey on conversion therapy is a total mess; and Gary defends Bowdlerisation as Roald Dahl gets a modern rework.
https://gript.ie/the-misleading-coverage-of-trinitys-conversion-therapy-report/

Friday Feb 17, 2023
The Week That Really Was 17 - Greetings, and fond farewells
Friday Feb 17, 2023
Friday Feb 17, 2023
Sarah Ryan makes her debut as the John's new co-host this week, as they ask: Why are Irish Politicians so afraid to say what they really think?

Sunday Feb 12, 2023
TRSI 346 - Venice is a city build for murder
Sunday Feb 12, 2023
Sunday Feb 12, 2023
In which Gary argues that we should bring back public caning/whipping because it's more humane and more just than putting people in prison.
https://www.newstalk.com/news/no-value-to-mandatory-sentencing-guidelines-irish-penal-reform-trust-1436143?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=Twitter#Echobox=1676023983-1

Friday Feb 10, 2023
The Week That Really Was 16 -The madness of Martin Nolan’s sentencing
Friday Feb 10, 2023
Friday Feb 10, 2023
Gript's own Fatima Gunning joins John to discuss Martin Nolan's banner week, her experience of Dublin after four years in Seoul, and what it was like observing Enoch Burke in court.

Friday Feb 03, 2023
The Week That Really Was 15 - The 5,000 undocumented
Friday Feb 03, 2023
Friday Feb 03, 2023
John and David discuss the news that 5,000 people arrived in Ireland with no documents last year, and whether St Patrick's Day is now about anything except Irishness.

Sunday Jan 29, 2023
TRSI 345 - Fianna Faģil
Sunday Jan 29, 2023
Sunday Jan 29, 2023
Protests continue, FF has some thoughts on killing children, our dear President thinks there should be no more borders, and the anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz.