Gript Media Podcasts

The week that really was 08 - Animal Hard

Peadar Toíbín joins John and David to discuss post covid excess deaths, immigration, hate speech, the anniversary of the free state, and the "animal hard" job of leading a new party.

TRSI 340 - Trust in the process

The coverage of the East Wall protests; the rise of the far right is now a literary genre of its own; and the simplification of COVID.

 

https://gript.ie/podcasts/trsi-68-what-exactly-are-antifa/

https://gript.ie/over-100000-in-public-money-to-be-given-to-anonymous-far-left-group/

https://www.irishtimes.com/health/2022/12/03/covid-policy-opponents-wilfully-misconstrued-science-glynn-says/

https://www.thejournal.ie/is-the-esb-building-in-east-wall-housing-economic-migrants-or-asylum-seekers-5936149-Dec2022/

The week that really was 07 - And I will always love EU

Jason O'Mahony joins John and David to discuss Ireland's love affair with all things EU, and what it might take for a new party to break Irish politics wide open.

TRSI 339 - The old traditions are still strong

A special needs school in Limerick is at risk of closure due to the policy failures of the government; China's Zero Covid policies cause havok; and Sinn Fein slips in the latest poll.

 

https://www.hindustantimes.com/world-news/china-builds-26-storey-pig-skyscraper-experts-warn-of-disease-outbreak-risks-101669458362447.html

 

https://www.reuters.com/world/china/huge-covid-protests-erupt-chinas-xinjiang-after-deadly-fire-2022-11-26/

The week that really Was 06 - The Battle of East Wall

What's broken in Irish politics? In the aftermath of the East Wall dispute, former PD advisor CORMAC LUCEY joins John and David to discuss immigration, economics, and the growing gap between establishment and people

TRSI 338 - Become unharvestable

Bernard Durkan has some thoughts on the Rwandan genocide; the National Party experieces some left-wing praxis; and Boris Johnson, possibly accidentally, says something true.

 

https://www.kildarestreet.com/debates/?id=2022-11-17a.316&s=salman#g349

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2022/nov/18/mike-bloomberg-forced-to-apologise-after-boris-johnson-speech-criticising-china

The week that really was 05 - Sharon Keoghan discusses the hostile atmosphere in Leinster House

Senator Sharon Keoghan talks to John McGuirk and David Quinn about the worsening atmosphere in Leinster House towards those with non-consensus views. They also discuss the latest coverage of clerical abuse, and a call to suppress all the religious orders.

TRSI 337 - Immoral acts become moral if they benefit the right people

The ethics of surrogacy and the American midterms. Those are two seperate topics.

The week that really was 04 - The open air lunatic asylum that is Mastodon

The Republicans wrestle with Abortion; Micheál Martin tries to save the world at COP 27; and McGuirk goes on a rant about the lunatic asylum called Mastodon.

TRSI 336 - Cast out into the outer dark

A suggustion that taxes should have a purpose as oppossed to simply being things the Government thinks they can get away with; the Hate Speech Bill; and the Twitter buyout and what it says about journalists.

 

https://gript.ie/gerard-casey-this-is-a-law-designed-to-make-you-afraid/