This was a jam packed live Sunday Special. Joining us and an audience of our members were Irish Examiner journalist, Cianan Brennan, the duo behind The Ditch, Roman Shortall and Eoghan McNeill and UCC Head of Religious Studies and Nasc Director, Amanullah DeSondy. Cianan talks about the ongoing An Bord Pleanala controversy, Roman and Eoghan drop the latest Robert Troy […]
It’s always a pleasure to be joined by US Based, Russian-Irish Economist, Constantin Gurdgiev, even if the topics tend to be a bit bleak. We discuss the ECB’s creative accounting and handling of the Italian debt crisis. We ask are the FED and ECB trying to manufacture a recession via a policy of ‘what’s bad is good’ and we look […]
Joining us to discuss journalism outside the mainstream are Co-Founders of ontheditch.com, Eoghan McNeill and Roman Shortall. We discuss their beginnings, their links with Web Summit founder, Paddy Cosgrave and what that might mean for how their stories are received. Roman and Eoghan discuss the revelations their work exposed in An Bord Pleanála and the impact that has had. Then, […]
The World Health Organisation has called Monkeypox a ‘global health emergency.’ Yet, as our guests, Dr Ciara Conlon and Robbie Lawlor, both of Access to Medicines Ireland, outline it is not been treated as one. They discuss the international inaction that is going to allow this virus to spread and the steps nationally and internationally needed to stop it. We […]
There’s been a lot of infighting within the 3 Government parties around climate action and targets. But what about the main party of opposition? Joining me to discuss this is Sinn Féin TD and their Climate Spokesperson, Darren O’Rourke. We discuss effective opposition, governments super majority and then I ask if his party is serious about leading a left government […]
It was a pleasure to be joined by Economic justice campaigner. Professor of Accounting Practice, Sheffield University. Chartered accountant. Political economist. Co-founder, the Green New Deal, Richard Murphy. We discuss the economic icebergs the Bank of England (and prospective Conservative leaders) seem determined to steer towards. Why neoliberalism has failed and how to build stories about a better way. Richard […]
Tensions in Gaza are rising as another Islamic Jihad leader has been killed and with the death toll now over 30, there are fears that things are going to get worse. Joining me to discuss this is Ramallah based Journalist, Gareth Browne. Gareth explains how this escalation started with the arrest of Islamic Jihad commander Bassam al-Saadi in Jenin, 5 […]
Social Democrats TD, Holly Cairns, joined me to discuss the last Dáil term, the dysfunction in how the Houses operate and a deep-dive on Ireland’s ongoing failure to live up to our International obligations to people with disabilities. We also talk Climate Action and ask are we really serious about taking the steps necessary to mitigate the worst impacts of […]