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  • REDEMPTION SONG: Eamonn Sweeney

    REDEMPTION SONG: Eamonn Sweeney
    2025/05/15

    Sportswriter Eamonn Sweeney set out to write a book about the GAA championship but succeeded in tackling a condition that had dogged him for nearly two decades, and largely confined him to his west Cork home. He talks about his struggles, his love of the GAA and why he felt compelled on various match days to check out the Orthodox religions and dine on exotic foods.



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    34 分
  • FIGHTING DISASTER: John Whyte

    FIGHTING DISASTER: John Whyte
    2025/05/08

    It’s a long way from the disadvantaged enclave of Rialto in Dublin’s inner city to the rubble and humanitarian devastation of Gaza but John Whyte has seen both. Before joining the UNRWA refugee agency, John oversaw the regeneration of Fatima Mansions that is considered a template of how to tackle disadvantage in this country. Today, as senior deputy director of UNRWA his brief is to alleviate the catastrophe that Gaza is now turning into. During a recent visit home, John spoke to the podcast.



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    43 分
  • Fit for Purpose: Cliona Fole

    Fit for Purpose: Cliona Fole
    2025/05/01
    With health and fitness now a central part of modern life, a question arises as to whether gyms are suitably welcoming to women. Journalist and former PE teacher Cliona Foley has written in the Irish Examiner about her own experience and some disturbing research into the whole area that suggests society has a way to go yet. Cliona is this week’s guest on the podcast

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    33 分
  • 100 DAYS AND COUNTING: Scott Lucas

    100 DAYS AND COUNTING: Scott Lucas
    2025/04/24
    Next Wednesday marks the 100th day in office for President Donald Trump, in this his second term. It differs greatly from his first, but more than that he has rushed to reshape the world, both within and without US borders. So how is he doing, will he succeed and is there any interest in stopping him bringing the US, and by extension the world, into a new reality. Scott Lucas, professor of US politics in UCD is this week’s guest.

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    40 分
  • BUILD BACK BETTER: Jude Sherry and Frank O’Connor

    BUILD BACK BETTER: Jude Sherry and Frank O’Connor
    2025/04/17
    In the midst of a housing crisis this state also has a large cohort of derelict or unused buildings. Some enlightened thinking and political willpower could use this resource to hugely positive effect but despite this there is still a way to go, particularly at official level. Judge Sherry and Frank O’Connor who run their design consulancy Anois have tracked this problem for four years and are now attempting to point a way forward towards solutions. Jude and Frank are this week’s guests on the podcast.

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    38 分
  • JUSTICE FOR MY FATHER: Austin Stack

    JUSTICE FOR MY FATHER: Austin Stack
    2025/04/10
    In 1983, Brian Stack, the chief officer in Portlaoise Prison, was shot and fatally wounded after leaving an event in Dublin. The Provisional IRA were long suspected of this attack but for many years, the organization denied any responsibility. Austin Stack was a young boy when his family’s life was changed forever and in adulthood he and his brothers began a long journey to get justice for their father. He has now written a book about that journey. Austin Stack is this week’s guest on the podcast.

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    40 分
  • STUMPED BY TRUMP: Elaine Loughlin

    STUMPED BY TRUMP: Elaine Loughlin
    2025/04/03

    Donald Trump has introduced the centrepiece of his electoral platform, global tariffs. On what he described as Liberation Day he produced a typical showbusiness background to the announcements that may well upend the whole nature of global trading. So what will it mean for this country, how we have been governed and how the country has developed over the last thirty years. Joining the podcast is Irish Examiner Political Editor Elaine Loughlin.

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    36 分
  • The Forgotten War: Niamh Griffin

    The Forgotten War: Niamh Griffin
    2025/03/27
    Over 12 million people have been displaced from a civil war in Sudan that started in 2023 and continues. Around 1 million of those displaced are now refugees in neighbouring South Sudan, living in extremely difficult conditions, including without clean water and attempting to survive in one of the poorest corners of the world where climate change is now having a devastating impact. The Irish Examiner’s Niamh Griffin recently visited one of the refugee camps and reported on a forgotten war far from the international focus and cameras. Niamh is this week’s guest on the podcast.

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    36 分