Episodes
Wednesday Feb 03, 2021
TRSI 192 - We need to respect Burma's lifestyle choices and refer to it as Myanmar
Wednesday Feb 03, 2021
Wednesday Feb 03, 2021
A military coup may be a step backwards; new reports of systematic rape from Xinjiang in China; why we should let artists starve; and that time Tommy Tiernan said he would have killed 10 to 12 million Jews if he was running the Holocaust.
https://www.rte.ie/brainstorm/2021/0202/1194573-myanmar-aung-san-suu-kyi-crisis-coup-2021/
https://www.poemhunter.com/poem/blood-and-the-moon/
Sunday Jan 31, 2021
TRSI 191 - A glorious moment of European unity
Sunday Jan 31, 2021
Sunday Jan 31, 2021
The UK considers gifting surplus vaccines to Ireland; the European Commission has managed to bring Europe together in opposition to the Commission; and the latest opinion polls.
https://www.spiegel.de/international/europe/europe-s-vaccine-disaster-commission-president-ursula-von-der-leyen-seeking-to-duck-responsibility-a-1197547d-6219-4438-9d69-b76e64701802
https://gript.ie/the-eu-accidentally-released-an-unredacted-version-of-the-astrazeneca-contract/
https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/840230/Revised_Protocol_to_the_Withdrawal_Agreement.pdf
Sunday Jan 31, 2021
Sunday Reflection 45 - The first Sunday of Ordinary Time
Sunday Jan 31, 2021
Sunday Jan 31, 2021
Father Luuk Jansen, from St Mary’s Church in Cork, brings us his Sunday Reflection. This week he discusses the need to take the time to look back so that you can see how far you've come.
Friday Jan 29, 2021
TRSI 190 - Stonks
Friday Jan 29, 2021
Friday Jan 29, 2021
A group of random internet users cripple a hedge fund and they may now have the taste for blood; the Jewish space laser; the HSE somehow finds a new depth of ineptitude; and the AstraZeneca issue keeps on rolling on.
https://nymag.com/intelligencer/article/marjorie-taylor-greene-qanon-wildfires-space-laser-rothschild-execute.html
https://ec.europa.eu/commission/presscorner/detail/en/ip_21_302f - Between recording and release the AstraZeneca contract was released.
Wednesday Jan 27, 2021
TRSI 189 - Stand patiently, suffer in silence, and wait
Wednesday Jan 27, 2021
Wednesday Jan 27, 2021
Bertie Ahern comes out on maneuvers; the entire force of the Irish government is unable to update a website once a day; and an explainer of what's happening between the EU and AstraZeneca.
https://ec.europa.eu/info/sites/info/files/curevac_-_redacted_advance_purchase_agreement_0.pdf
Sunday Jan 24, 2021
TRSI 188 - Obscure statistics are what the people crave
Sunday Jan 24, 2021
Sunday Jan 24, 2021
Politico says it will be 2023 before Ireland has 70% of its adult population vaccinated if we don't speed up; GPs have been told, by their professional body the ICGP, to contact a transgender advocacy group for advice on treatment pathways for their patients; and China's attacks on the Pfizer vaccine.
https://www.icgp.ie/speck/properties/asset/asset.cfm?type=LibraryAsset&id=468202EA%2DDD0D%2D4CF6%2DA65F3806460A2447&property=asset&revision=tip&disposition=inline&app=icgp&filename=ICGP%5FTrans%5FHealth%5FQRG%2Epdf
http://users.ox.ac.uk/~sfos0060/Biggs_ExperimentPubertyBlockers.pdf
Sunday Jan 24, 2021
Sunday Reflection 44 - Fishers of Men
Sunday Jan 24, 2021
Sunday Jan 24, 2021
Father Luuk Jansen, from St Mary’s Church in Cork, brings us his Sunday Reflection. This week he discusses the arrest of John the Baptist and the start of the public ministry of Jesus.
Friday Jan 22, 2021
TRSI 187 - The great race
Friday Jan 22, 2021
Friday Jan 22, 2021
Vaccination numbers; the UK has decided to stop pretending the EU is a country; a legitimately Kafkaesque story involving a dead women who won't stop saying she's alive; the Tavistock Clinic's appeal; and the Government wants to avoid 'disproportionate' restrictions on travelers.
https://www.irishtimes.com/opinion/stormont-bemused-by-republic-s-stonewalling-over-covid-data-1.4463253
Wednesday Jan 20, 2021
TRSI 186 - Koen Stoop of the World Uyghur Congress
Wednesday Jan 20, 2021
Wednesday Jan 20, 2021
Koen Stoop is the EU Policy Coordinator of the World Uyghur Congress, an international organisation which represents the Uyghur people.
Koen talks about the ongoing repression of the Uyghur people, a situation a growing number of politicians and academics have said constitutes genocide.
Sunday Jan 17, 2021
Sunday Reflection 43 - Come and See
Sunday Jan 17, 2021
Sunday Jan 17, 2021
Father Luuk Jansen, from St Mary’s Church in Cork, brings us his Sunday Reflection. This week he discusses the annunciation and God's plan.