Gript Media Podcasts

TRSI 254 - The Zapp is back

Katherine Zappone is to be given a new state job because she asked to be given one; Minister admits 600,000 for a house is not affordable; and RTE pledges to make its climate change reporting better by making its weather reporting worse.

https://www.rte.ie/news/analysis-and-comment/2021/0726/1237408-climate-change/
https://www.thejournal.ie/obrien-says-e600000-is-not-an-affordable-home-as-concerns-loom-over-poolbeg-development-5507344-Jul2021/

TRSI 253 - 20 minutes every day on how great nuclear power is

The Soc Dems are having the most adorable heave you've ever seen; nearly every newspaper managed to avoid calling the last protest far-right; and apparently Irish people haven't been talking enough about climate change.

 

Fracking saves the environment - https://www.forbes.com/sites/danielmarkind/2020/11/23/the-united-states-and-the-paris-climate-agreementswhat-does-the-data-say/
https://despair.com/collections/demotivators
RTE's climate group membership - https://gript.ie/ben-scallan-why-is-rte-a-member-of-a-climate-change-activism-group/
https://www.independent.ie/opinion/comment/climate-change-is-the-elephant-in-the-room-the-media-choose-to-overlook-40686853.html
https://www.independent.ie/opinion/comment/were-fat-and-getting-fatter-but-no-one-wants-to-talk-about-it-40684928.html
Live footage of one of Michael's mood swings - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xkJd5oQXt4g

TRSI 252 - First you get the gas, then you get the power

A short discussion on the life and death of Des O'Malley and the PDs; a reminder that the Irish government is responsible for the high price of cars in this country; Japanese comedians and the Holocaust; and Nord Stream 2 continues to move forward.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tNstQ6q-kYw

TRSI 251 - Death, Disease, Famine, Sinead O'Connor

Ian Bailey is back in the news, with both Fintan O'Toole and Sinead O'Connor getting involved; and the COVID-19 CFR and the need to discuss how many deaths are acceptable when we reopen.

O'Toole's piece - https://www.irishtimes.com/opinion/fintan-o-toole-ian-bailey-deflects-us-from-the-reality-of-violent-misogyny-1.4624916
Projected deaths in UK from missed healthcare - https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lanonc/article/PIIS1470-2045(20)30388-0/fulltext
HPSC's last report on the weekly COVID-19  epidemiology   - https://www.hpsc.ie/a-z/respiratory/coronavirus/novelcoronavirus/surveillance/epidemiologyofcovid-19inirelandweeklyreports/COVID-19%20Weekly%20Report_Slidset_HPSC_%20Week_18_WEB_20210511.pdf
Irish COVID-19 hub - https://covid19ireland-geohive.hub.arcgis.com/
Dutch COVID-19 hub - https://coronadashboard.government.nl/landelijk/varianten

TRSI 250 - It's too hot for politics

Two new polls are out, neither of them good news for Fianna Fail or Martin.

 

https://www.independent.ie/opinion/comment/bitter-and-angry-fianna-fail-are-now-a-laughing-stock-40663668.html

https://twitter.com/NextIrishGE/status/1416536109459329026

https://twitter.com/NextIrishGE/status/1416534480093843462 - B&A poll

Sunday Reflection 63 - Like sheep without a Shepard

Father Luuk Jansen, from St Mary’s Church in Cork, brings us his Sunday Reflection. This week he discusses Mark 6:30-34.

TRSI 249 - The ghost in the machine

A new poll shows public support for the Gender Recognition Act of 2015 is at astoundingly low levels; and the WHO says it was "preemptive" for them to dismiss the theory that COVID-19 may have leaked from a Chinese lab.

https://thecountess.ie/wp-content/uploads/2021/07/The-Countess-Irish-Gender-Poll-2021.pdf
https://www.theguardian.com/society/2004/jul/30/health.mentalhealth
https://twitter.com/jbloom_lab/status/1407445604029009923

TRSI 248 - Batista and what Cuba could have been

FF looks into the void and decides it looks pretty comfortable; things not to say in Western politics; a deepfake video of Simon Harris ; and Cuba goes for a second revolution.

https://www.irishtimes.com/news/politics/voters-see-fianna-f%C3%A1il-as-deeply-divided-internal-research-shows-1.4618579
https://gript.ie/cork-county-council-forced-labour-and-genocide-merely-differences-in-values/
https://twitter.com/G_L_Kavanagh/status/1414645006707707912
https://psmag.com/magazine/the-lucrative-art-of-chicken-sexing
https://www.thedailybeast.com/fidel-castros-horrific-record-on-gay-rights

TRSI 247 - Will Fianna Fail go gentle into that good night?

A short review of the Dublin Bay South byelection, followed by an extended discussion of what Fianna Fail can do to reverse the decline Martin is dedicated to overseeing.

 

12:19 - Fianna Fail results

35:41 - Where are the free Irish voters?

47:48 - What is to be done with Martin?

TRSI 246 - You can't handle the costings

They're now just refusing to say how much the children's hospital is expected to cost; and a new bill aims to make the civil service even worse.

 

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/no-one-can-explain-why-planes-stay-in-the-air/