Gript Media Podcasts

TRSI 323 - Heads I win, tails you lose

It's been a trying week for the ICCL; new polling shows Irish people's views on transgender people are largely incoherent; and Gary gets some posters put up.

 

https://gript.ie/pro-life-rally-slams-censorship-as-council-refuses-posters-advertising-event-attack-on-democracy/
https://gript.ie/county-council-reverses-ban-on-pro-life-posters/
https://gript.ie/iccl-incorrectly-claimed-they-cannot-legally-accept-donation-of-e100-or-more/
https://www.independent.ie/irish-news/most-oppose-trans-women-competing-in-female-sport-41809229.html

TRSI 322 - The void does more than look back

Darragh O'Brien is right that there is a risk to social cohesion, but doesn't seem to realise the risk comes from his own Government's actions; clothing yourself in the dead to own the TERFs; Roe v Wade falls; and FF and FG combined still trail behind SF.

TRSI 321 - Power

Michael D. Higgins shows his mastery of changing the subject; asylum claims are up 700% but it's definitely not our fault; and the NGO complex goes to war with Joe Duffy.

 

https://www.irishtimes.com/opinion/letters/2022/06/17/trans-equality-together-responds-to-liveline/

https://www.irishmirror.ie/news/irish-news/rwanda-link-rise-irish-asylum-27239846

Savage Eye - John Duffy

TRSI 320 - No one wants to be that guy, but

SF continue to rise in the polls; children with disabilities continue to be an afterthought; needle spiking comes to Europe; and minimum alcohol pricing goes down in flames.

 

https://www.publichealthscotland.scot/media/13486/evaluating-the-impact-of-minimum-unit-pricing-in-scotland-on-people-who-are-drinking-at-harmful-levels-report.pdf

 

https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2022/06/07/needle-spiking-europe-britain-france/

 

https://extra.ie/2022/06/05/news/politics/former-minister-says-four-out-of-five-fine-gael-tds-seats-at-risk

 

https://gript.ie/fact-check-donohoe-previously-called-usc-an-emergency-measure-promised-to-abolish-it/

TRSI 319 - Sleep is the cousin of death by hammer

New study supports idea that long COVID is psychosomatic; polls show SF is now more popular than FF and FG combined; and the Johnny Depp v Amber Heard case.

 

https://www.acpjournals.org/doi/10.7326/M21-4905

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b_3oFRcTNHo

TRSI 318 - A happy Finn is one who knows it could be worse

Another TogetherForSafety claim falls; the Biden Administration's disinformation board dies; and what the concept of the separation of church and state actually means.

https://gript.ie/revealed-the-falsehood-repeated-again-and-again-in-the-dail/

TRSI 317 - You’ll take my meal deal from my cold, dead hands

Journalism is an industry flush with morals but lacking ethics; the HSE thinks meal deals should be illegal; and Alcohol Action Ireland is going to win regardless of which way the numbers go.

https://gript.ie/anti-misinformation-think-tank-spreads-trans-misinformation/

https://www.hse.ie/eng/about/who/healthwellbeing/our-priority-programmes/heal/food-pyramid-images/daily-meal-plan-a4-michael-age-52.pdf

TRSI 316 - Shame! Shame! Shame!

The building trade is going off the rails; what's actually happening with Roe v Wade; and Gary pulls apart another study, this time on religious teachers.

 

https://www.businesspost.ie/energy/state-to-double-imported-emergency-power-generators-amid-new-supply-fears-68f3b3e8

 

https://www.businesspost.ie/houses/all-local-authorities-to-be-contacted-over-potential-mica-problems-ad521130

 

https://gript.ie/significant-methodological-issues-with-recent-study-on-non-religious-teachers-fears/

 

https://www.irishtimes.com/news/education/non-religious-teachers-hide-beliefs-for-job-opportunities-study-1.4868122

TRSI 315 - Constant vigilance

Some days the media just picks a person and decides that person is either a hero or a villain, and how do you trust a media willing to misrepresent certain issues, and people, consistently?

https://www.irishexaminer.com/opinion/commentanalysis/arid-40862486.html

 

https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/joint_committee_on_international_surrogacy/2022-04-21/3/#spk_20

 

Author realizes her new book contains gross inaccuracies on live radio

https://gript.ie/no-a-new-study-did-not-show-that-non-white-offenders-get-longer-prison-sentences/

https://www.iprt.ie/site/assets/files/7076/iprt_the_rights-_needs_and_experiences_of_foreign_national_and_minority_ethnic_groups.pdf

TRSI 314 - The politics of the current thing

The Minister for Justice has made illegal two things that were already illegal; the Government appears to be striving to cause resentment of Ukranian refugees; and the ICCL is back to claiming to be 100% independent, but it's not the Irish public who pay their wages.