Gript Media Podcasts

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/

The week that really was 03 - Father Sheehy versus the world

In Episode 3 of The Week that Really was: Father Sheehy versus the world; Why "Reeling in the Years" isn't so much beloved TV show as dangerous misinformation, and David Quinn's shocking 1983 secret. Available now where you get your podcasts.

TRSI 335 - A geometric expression of chocolate

Martin begs the public, and his own party, to help him out and to stop objecting to housing; throwing beans at art is the new hot thing; and SF's rise in the polls may be stalling. 

 

https://data.oireachtas.ie/ie/oireachtas/bill/2022/105/eng/initiated/b10522d-p-c-sent.pdf

TRSI 334 - The concept of the feminine penis

Political parties complain about defamation whilst apparently unaware they are in control of bringing in laws; the Nazis and social media ownership; a transgender comedian decides to strip off on Channel 4; and the government has some new ideas for the housing sector.

 

https://www.irishtimes.com/politics/2022/10/22/the-big-chill-the-silencing-effect-of-sinn-fein-legal-threats-against-politicians/

https://www.irishtimes.com/opinion/2022/10/22/democracies-must-regulate-social-media-before-it-is-too-late/

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Eht1MLU3r5A