Gript Media Podcasts

You've got Kids 11 - Is homeschooling right for your kids?

Aoife sits down with Monica O'Connor, a homeschooling guru, to discuss homeschooling and how to decide if it's a good fit for your children.

You can Cook Too 13 - The most delicious desert you will ever have - Banoffee Mess.

Patricia shows you how to make Banoffee Mess, a variant of Eton Mess made with toffee sauce or salted caramel sauce. And you can make it in about 5 minutes.

Ingredients and instructions.

For 6-8

284 ml carton double or whipping cream lightly whipped

6 meringue nests

5-6 sliced bananas

5 tbsp. bought toffee sauce or salted caramel sauce

Handful of roughly broken pecan nuts

Lightly whip the cream. Ian be bought pre-whipped but usually too thick. Crumble in the meringue nests. Gently fold in the bananas and swirl in the toffee sauce. Spoon into 6 dishes and scatter over the nuts. Drizzle with a little more toffee sauce if you wish.

Unsafe Space 11 - What has the EU ever done for us?

Keith and Sarah discuss the EU; Keith's 'dark' opinions; and if Brexit has destroyed Irexit as a political option.

17:45 - Sarah calls Keith a dickhead.

Sunday Reflection 07 - The mystery of a perfect community

Father Luuk Jansen, from St Mary's Church in Cork, brings us his Sunday Reflection. This Sunday he talks about how an attempt to trick Jesus allowed Jesus to reveal to us more of the mystery of God and heaven.

You Can Cook Too 12 - Cheat's Sherry Trifle

Patricia shows you how to make a quick and easy sherry trifle, which must be served in a glass bowl.

She pairs it with Hank William's song Your Cheating Heart.

 

Ingredients and Instructions

Serves 6-8

Maderia cake (about ½ of a shop bought cake)

8 ozs (225g) best raspberry jam melted or unmelted

5 fl.ozs. (150 mls.) sherry (dry, medium or sweet)

15 fl.ozs (425 mls) double cream whipped

2-3 tablespoons fresh fruit to match the jam

Custard: 1½ pints (845 mls) packet/tin of premade custard

Garnish: 1 ozs. (25 gms. flaked almonds) – I like mine toasted

Sugared flower petals (Optional – white rose petals dipped in egg white and

dredged with caster sugar, leave to dry on non-stick parchment for 24 hours)

Pomegranate seeds or a cluster of fresh fruit in the centre

Put the sliced or broken up cake into a GLASS bowl and up the sides. Pour the jam over it so that it runs down between the cracks in the cake base. Put the fruit over it, then sherry and then the custard. Pick the base with a fork to ensure that the sherry and custard seep down. Chill, then cover with whipped cream. I refer the cream to look rough rather than flat. Decorate with toasted almonds and pomegranate seeds. You could also put a bunch of fruit in the middle. It looks great. It doesn’t need any pouring cream.

TRSI 31 - And Jeffrey Epstein didn't kill himself

Michael and Gary talk about the new Project Veritas videos and what they tell us about the case of convicted paedophile/ blackmailer of the rich and powerful, Jeffrey Epstein; increases in the cost of the Children's Hospital; and An Taisce's demand that Leo apologies for daring to suggest climate change is not a religious issue.

 

15:15 - Children's Hospital
24:45 - Leo's remarks on climate change

 

Unsafe Space 10 - Not Your Mother's Feminism

Keith and Sarah discuss modern feminism, the infantilization of women and that time Keith became front-page news for calling people 'feminazis'.

TRSI 30 - Leo is right about fake asylum seekers

We look at the statistics behind Leo's claim that fake asylum seekers from Albania and Georgia are increasingly common; asylum seekers in Achill; and John Paul Phelan's call for an inquiry into Michael Healy Rae's time-keeping.

TRSI 29 - If you expect the ICCL to protect your rights you will be dissapointed

Gary and Michael discuss the Irish Council for Civil Liberties argument against body cameras for guards, and how it compares with their policies on hate speech and stopping protests; the argument that building more houses won't lead to a reduction in house prices; and how Greta Thunberg ended up stuck on the wrong side of the planet.

00:00 - The ICCL are just wets
19:20 - Housing Crisis
31:15 - Greta gets lost

Sunday Reflection 06 - The Unjust Judge

Father Luuk Jansen, from St Mary's Church in Cork, brings us his Sunday Reflection. This week's reflection is about the parable of the unjust judge, and that there is a time for all things.