Gript Media Podcasts

TRSI 162 - Would you rather your child drank or did the odd bit of smack?

Alcohol will now be hidden from the impressionable minds of children and adults as the booze burka has come into force. You should enjoy calling it that when you can because FF are moving forward with a hate crimes bill in the Senate and God knows someone is going to think anything that uses the word burka must be racist.

 

https://data.oireachtas.ie/ie/oireachtas/bill/2020/52/eng/initiated/b5220s.pdf

You Can Cook Too 47 - Afternoon Tea

Patricia talks you through the history of afternoon tea, how to have afternoon tea in your house, and the proper pronunciation of scone.

TRSI 161 - Chief Justice Clarke should resign

It is not part of our role to ask, let alone tell, Chief Justice Clarke to resign. Resignation is and can only be for the judge him or herself. Regrettably, however, we believe that we should make clear our personal opinion that, to avoid continuing serious damage to the judiciary, Chief Justice Clarke should resign.

Part of our role, as presenters of TRSI, is to do what we can to maintain public confidence in the Supreme Court, the judiciary generally and the administration of justice. It is in that context that we have expressed our view as to the course of action that will do the most to achieve those ends.

 

https://www.irishtimes.com/news/crime-and-law/letters-in-full-what-chief-justice-said-to-mr-justice-seamus-woulfe-over-golfgate-dinner-and-his-reply-1.4404867
https://www.irishtimes.com/news/crime-and-law/full-text-of-denham-report-concerning-mr-justice-s%C3%A9amus-woulfe-1.4369637

TRSI 160 - They've read the sheet music, but they don't know the music

We shouldn't expect opinion writers to let the facts get in the way of a good story;  Leo the leak and the Chay Bowes story.

https://gript.ie/gay-sex-russia-and-sinn-fein-the-secret-obsessions-of-varadkar-whistleblower-chay-bowes/

Sunday Reflection 36 - We do not know the time of our end

Father Luuk Jansen, from St Mary’s Church in Cork, brings us his Sunday Reflection. This week he discusses the lessons contained within the parable of the wise and foolish bridesmaids.

TRSI 159 - The future of the Republican party is Roman

The American election - why did Trump outperform the polls; Biden's upcoming castration at the hands of the Republican Senate; is there any truth to the claims of electoral interference; how did a man routinely called a white supremacist and racist get the highest share of the minority vote of any Republican since 1960; and what is the future of the Republican party now?

 

https://twitter.com/JoshShapiroPA/status/1322640510637477889

https://twitter.com/JoshShapiroPA/status/1323686382401843201

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/11/03/us/elections/exit-polls-president.html

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8588031/Scientist-angers-Twitter-accused-sexism-racism-saying-roundworms-useless.html

Sunday Reflection 35 - All Saints' Day

Father Luuk Jansen, from St Mary’s Church in Cork, brings us his Sunday Reflection. This week he discusses the beatitudes and the lives of the saints.

TRSI 158 - The only gay with a Village

Macron offers a strong defense of French culture; the LGB Alliance launches in Ireland; Supreme Court judges have embarrassed the court;Leo accused of breaking the law.

https://gript.ie/podcasts/trsi-116-bev-jackson-of-the-lgb-alliance/

TRSI 157 - Damien English naked and free

Damien English just wants us to free our bodies; America's long nightmare draws to a close on Tuesday; the Economist has some disclosure issues; a 3 year delay on checks for breast cancer; and France has been having some decapitation issues.

TRSI 156 - You can't hug your children with nuclear arms

50,000 people lost their job within the first week of the move to level 5; a UN treaty seeks to ban nuclear weapons - the greatest peace keeper of the 20 century; Verona Murphy creates a political problem; and ACB sits on the Supreme Court.

 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GBU-43/B_MOAB#Operational_use