Gript Media Podcasts

Sunday Reflection 51 - The third week of Lent

Father Luuk Jansen, from St Mary’s Church in Cork, brings us his Sunday Reflection. This week he discusses Nicodemus.

TRSI 206 - And not a drop to drink

A rumour regarding Simon Coveney and the British vaccine surplus ; apologetics for the EU ruined by discovery of vaccine mountains; and how a 6% reduction in alcohol consumption becomes an "ocean of alcohol."

 

https://www.irishtimes.com/news/world/europe/there-are-no-spare-vaccines-available-for-ireland-to-lobby-for-1.4506889
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/03/11/us/politics/coronavirus-astrazeneca-united-states.html
https://www.swissinfo.ch/eng/swiss-double-covid-vaccine-order-from-pfizer-biontech/46436302
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nSXIetP5iak

TRSI 205 - A Final Embarrassment

The ISAG situation continues to develop despite the silence of the zero-covid group; the IFCN attempts a course correction; the Bishops still have the capacity to surprise; and the government's forced quarantine plans are effectively a total ban on travel to Ireland from large parts of Africa.

 

https://gript.ie/watch-senator-ronan-mullen-raises-isag-leaks-in-the-seanad/

https://gript.ie/recent-journal-fact-check-actually-non-fact-checking-content-international-fact-checking-network/

https://gript.ie/quis_custodiet_ipsos_custodes/

TRSI 204 - Oh the places you'll go!

More on Moonshot's recent study of the far-right in Ireland, particularly the Irish Time's coverage of it; fact-checking the Journal; and Dr Seuss out, but Mein Kampf is still in.

Sunday Reflection 50 - The third week of Lent

Father Luuk Jansen, from St Mary’s Church in Cork, brings us his Sunday Reflection. This week he discusses sacred spaces and finding what is real.

TRSI 203 - The far-right point

The ICCL have had some thoughts on the recent protest; how to turn research showing basically no far-right into a fear piece; fact-checking the Journal; and how the Covid story will end.

 

https://www.irishtimes.com/news/social-affairs/unusually-high-proportion-of-young-males-researching-far-right-topics-1.4500287
https://moonshotcve.com/far-right-search-traffic-in-ireland-2021/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3wbjZDtR2e0

TRSI 202 - We've got a little list

Fergus Finlay can see into the souls of those attending protests; the German Finance Minister says the EU vaccination programme is a "total shitshow"; and we've missed the last two weeks of vaccination targets.

 

I've Got a Little List (with lyrics) / The Mikado / Gilbert and Sullivan

https://www.hse.ie/eng/services/news/newsfeatures/covid19-updates/integrated-information-service-vaccination-programme-dashboard.html

TRSI 201 - Out of the crooked timber of humanity no straight thing was ever made

Another chance to wheel out the phrase 'mostly peaceful protest'; what exactly it means to be far-right during the great realignment; the Irish media and the failure to ask questions; and new polling show FF the only way is down.

SR 49 - The second Sunday of Lent

Father Luuk Jansen, from St Mary’s Church in Cork, brings us his Sunday Reflection. This week he discusses the transfiguration.

TRSI 200 - Nothing personal

The Zero-Covid leaks; apparently using people with experience to write a contract is cheating; and comments in a recent Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health show the wisdom of praising the sun.

 

https://gript.ie/look-for-ways-to-increase-insecurity-anxiety-and-uncertainty-zero-covid-document/
https://www.politico.eu/article/the-key-differences-between-the-eu-and-uk-astrazeneca-contracts/
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/committees/33/health/