Episodes

Friday Nov 20, 2020
TRSI 165 - Cromwell
Friday Nov 20, 2020
Friday Nov 20, 2020
A new study has said that doctors are being told palliative care will not be provided for infants who survive abortions; and the guards are really, really trying not to arrest a priest for holding mass.
https://obgyn.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/1471-0528.16502?af=R

Wednesday Nov 18, 2020
TRSI 164 - The key to international relations is knowing how to troll an entire country
Wednesday Nov 18, 2020
Wednesday Nov 18, 2020
The Criminal Justice Hate Crime bill was debated in the Seanad yesterday; Dublin City Council Councillors discovered they actually love people being homeless; and China moves to the trolling America stage of diplomatic relations.

Sunday Nov 15, 2020
TRSI 163 - We need more rhetoric about the need to move away from rhetoric
Sunday Nov 15, 2020
Sunday Nov 15, 2020
It's that time of the year where we talk about the gender pay gap and why women aren't working the rest of the year for free. Also a short aside on Micheál Martin's issues with hanging a painting.
https://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.525.174&rep=rep1&type=pdf

Sunday Nov 15, 2020
Sunday Reflection 37 - The parable of the talents.
Sunday Nov 15, 2020
Sunday Nov 15, 2020
Father Luuk Jansen, from St Mary’s Church in Cork, brings us his Sunday Reflection. This week he discusses the parable of the talents.

Friday Nov 13, 2020
TRSI 162 - Would you rather your child drank or did the odd bit of smack?
Friday Nov 13, 2020
Friday Nov 13, 2020
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

Thursday Nov 12, 2020
You Can Cook Too 47 - Afternoon Tea
Thursday Nov 12, 2020
Thursday Nov 12, 2020
Patricia talks you through the history of afternoon tea, how to have afternoon tea in your house, and the proper pronunciation of scone.

Wednesday Nov 11, 2020
TRSI 161 - Chief Justice Clarke should resign
Wednesday Nov 11, 2020
Wednesday Nov 11, 2020
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

Sunday Nov 08, 2020
TRSI 160 - They've read the sheet music, but they don't know the music
Sunday Nov 08, 2020
Sunday Nov 08, 2020
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 Nov 08, 2020
Sunday Reflection 36 - We do not know the time of our end
Sunday Nov 08, 2020
Sunday Nov 08, 2020
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.

Friday Nov 06, 2020
TRSI 159 - The future of the Republican party is Roman
Friday Nov 06, 2020
Friday Nov 06, 2020
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?

