Gript Media Podcasts

You've got Kids 04 - Camping is the best holiday you can have

Aoife and Aine talk about their love of camping, the camping sites they recommend, tips and tricks they've picked up over the years, and why camping is the best holiday you can have with children.

You Can Cook Too 04 - Cheat's Fish Pie

Patricia shows us a delicious fish pie that can serve 6.

She pairs it with the first movement of Schubert's Trout Quintet.

Cheats Fish Pie

Serves 6

Preparation time 20-25 minutes

 

Ingredients

400 gm pack trimmed leeks. Thickly sliced

520 gms fish mix

150 gm king prawns

525 gm jar lasagne white sauce

200 gm frozen peas

800 gm mashed potatoes

4 tabsps snipped chives

 

Instructions

Preheat oven to 200C

Cook leeks in boiling water for 3 minutes

Mix leeks with all the ingredients except potatoes and chives and put into heatproof dish

Add chives to potatoes and spoon over the fish mixture.

Cook for about 45 minutes and serve.

Freezes well half-way through cooking and before chives added

TRSI 09 - The National Women's Council is the Holy Roman Empire of NGOs

Neither holy, nor Roman, nor an empire.

 

Simon Harris says the Children's Hospital will be finished on time, has apparently forgotten it's years behind schedule  0:00

RTE continues to lose money due to its own ineptitude - 10:35

John Bolton gone from the Trump administration 17:30

The Women's Council of Ireland and their idea to destroy the pension system 22:43

Unsafe Space 04 - Freedom of Speech

Keith ' The Eel' Redmond and Sarah 'I am the main event' Ryan discuss the importance of free speech in a modern society, and why a country that lost the run of itself over donuts probably shouldn't be trusted with heroin.

They also respond to some listener comments on their last episode. You can skip to 12:00 if you want to get right into the free speech.

TRSI 08 -We should be shaming people more

Gary discusses the idea that shaming someone is a negative thing, and argues that shame is actually a core part of a functioning society and, if anything, we should be shaming people more.

TRSI 07 - Rumours of Boris Johnson's demise have been greatly exaggerated

After a week of Brexit action the pundit consensus is that Boris Johnson is on the ropes, but there's still more than enough going for Johnson to see him through this.

You've got Kids 03 - Back to School

Aoife and Aine discuss getting the kids back to school, moving from the summer and having the kids around constantly, getting the kids to their activities after school, and if it's good idea to hold a child out of school until they're a little bit older.

You Can Cook Too 03 - Marmalade Ice-cream

Patricia talks about a delicious, sweet marmalade ice-cream that will serve multiple people and can be made using just 4 ingredients.

 

She pairs the ice-cream with Dimitri Shostakovich's 1927 piece, the Tahiti Trot, based on Tea for Two.

Unsafe Space 03 - Hang 'Em High

Keith and Sarah talk about the Irish justice system, which has somehow managed to simultaneously put both too many people in prison, and failed to put the people who actually need to be in prison in prison.

 

Come for the debate about justice and things you can't say about these days, stay for Sarah's angry muttering as the state of Ireland reduces her to nonsense sounds.

TRSI 06 - The death penalty should be safe, legal, and rare

Following the release of a highly violent criminal Gary asks if society should bring back the death penalty, and do some people just need killing?