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- Oct 8, 202611 min
Budget fall-out; Laois solicitor suspended, Irish-Jewish community safety fears; Deep fakes
An enormous post budget row has erupted between the government and RTE over a shortfall in funding for the broadcaster agreed in this week’s budget.A solicitor known for establishing the Co Laois music festival, Forest Fest, has been suspended from legal practice by the High Court.Security concerns for Jewish people in Ireland have prevented Dublin’s primary synagogue from organising a public-facing memorial to mark the October 7th attacks.In her tech column today, Ciara O’Brien is making the case for removing the phrase “we didn’t mean it” from tech companies’ book of excuses when it comes to deep fakes.Patrick Freyne is writing about a “new rich-person documentary.” The Beckhams were the patients zero of the celebumentary. Now it’s the turn of Wayne and Coleen Rooney.Presented by Aideen Finnegan Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
- Oct 7, 20268 min
Record public spending; the cost of policing big events; and algae in Lough Derg
The Government has unveiled an €8.5 billion Budget package bringing public spending to a record €125.6 billion next year.Tighter spending controls on policing major events after a review of the policing operation around last year’s Europa League final in Dublin, Garda Commissioner Justin Kelly is expected to tell an Oireachtas committee.A workplace dispute involving HIV Ireland has heard evidence about tensions within the charity and a decision to withdraw from a major HSE awareness campaign.Swimmers in Lough Derg talk of skin irritation and respiratory problems from blue-green algae.Presented by Andrew McNair Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
- Oct 6, 202611 min
Giveaway budget; Fintan O'Toole on Drumcree; Hugh Linehan on Cornell case
The Government will unveil another giveaway budget today, Tuesday October 6th, which will include reductions in tax for middle income earners worth up to €1,500 for a couple with a combined income of €100,000.“Drumcree is the theatre of the absurd, straight from Monty Python’s Ministry of silly walks,” according to Fintan O’Toole, who’s column this week focuses on the eruption of sectarian tension in Portadown.As a new legal term begins in the Irish courts this week, Hugh Linehan is contrasting the reporting restrictions which apply to criminal cases here with those in the United States; as America grapples with the alleged gang rape of a woman at Cornell University in upstate New York.Tributes are being paid to a Trinity College professor and oesophageal cancer surgeon at St. James’ Hospital in Dublin as he marks his retirement from the university. John Reynolds has been at the forefront of medical advances in Ireland which have led to a doubling of overall survival for the 500 plus people diagnosed with oesophageal cancer in the Republic each year.Presented by Aideen Finnegan Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
- Oct 5, 20267 min
Booming cannabis trade; Drumcree court hearing; and delays to the National Children’s Hospital
Irish drug gangs are now making as much money from cannabis as they are from cocaine, according to new Gardaí figures.Housing, energy costs and childcare are among the main concerns people have been voicing ahead of Budget 2027.Ireland’s borrowing costs are a fraction of bigger economies like France, the UK and the United States.Garvaghy Road residents are in court today as the dispute over an Orange Order parade at Drumcree.The latest delays to Ireland’s national children’s hospital are carrying a growing cost for patients waiting to use the new facility, new correspondence reveals.Presented by Andrew McNair. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
- Oct 2, 202611 min
Opposition alternative budgets; Grinds 360 boardroom war; and the viability of domestic rugby
The opposition parties have laid out their alternative budgets ahead of the government’s Budget 2027 next week.Grinds 360, Ireland’s biggest online education platform, was plunged into a boardroom battle after its CEO was temporarily suspended in a dispute over company finances and governance.Next week, the European Union and China head into what could be one of their most consequential trade showdowns in years.Domestic rugby falls far behind the financial viability of the international game, but what can fix it?Presented by Andrew McNair. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
- Oct 1, 202610 min
Domino’s Pizza billionaire’s Waterford plans: Border poll; Aerial house photos
An American conservative Catholic university, founded by Domino’s Pizza billionaire Tom Monaghan, is facing questions over plans to open an Irish campus at the former Mount Melleray monastery in Co. Waterford.Irish unification stirs widespread debate but the decision for a vote on the matter falls to one person under the Belfast Agreement; Northern Ireland’s secretary of state. Rachel Lavin examines what metrics might be used to judge whether to trigger a border poll.A law intended to protect rape complainants from being quizzed about their sexual history is “not working”, with almost one in four complainants facing such inquiries last year, Rape Crisis Ireland has said.A friend of Emer McLysaght recently became an official Irish citizen and, as Emer prides herself on being a considerate gift giver, she set about coming up with the perfect token to mark the occasion. A vintage aerial photo of her friend’s home.Presented by Aideen Finnegan Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
- Sep 30, 20269 min
Irish citizen pleads not guilty to murder in Hungary; Fuel prices; Drumcree; 'Notions'
An Irish citizen has pleaded not guilty in a Hungarian court to the murder of his ex-wife, a Japanese national, and to setting fire to her apartment in an alleged attempt to make her death look like an accident.The price of fuel at the pumps could be as high as €2.30 a litre by December. Pricewatch editor Conor Pope is drilling into why.The DUP and the Orange Order have made complaints to the PSNI about Sinn Féin president Mary Lou McDonald and the party’s vice president and northern Ireland first minister, Michelle O’Neill. It’s over their presence at a protest in Portadown on Sunday, preventing a contentious Orange Order march down the Garvaghy Road.Laura Kennedy is examining the Sally Rooney effect on the Irish female experience. She argues that where once women were taught not to have “notions”; now their thoughts, feelings and perspectives have become an intangible cultural export.Presented by Aideen Finnegan. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
- Sep 29, 202610 min
Drumcree standoff continues; education spending; and Ireland’s footballers to vote on second Israel match
The standoff between residents of Garvaghy Road, Co. Armagh, and the Orange Order shows no sign of resolution.Ireland is spending less per student across its education system than the average developed country, according to an OECD report.Almost 30,000 people have opted out of the State’s new auto-enrolment pension scheme, but the Government says participation remains far stronger than expected.Heimir Hallgrímsson has told The Irish Times Ireland’s soccer players won’t make a decision on whether to fulfil their second match against Israel on Sunday, until after Thursday’s nations league clash against Austria.Presented by Andrew McNair. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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