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Amnesty International Ireland seems to be on a short road to going bankrupt; a Junior Cert schoolbook on how liking traditional music and being a controlling bigot are basically the same thing; and the latest opinion poll. Available on Spotify & iTunes Spotify https://open.spotify.com/show/2BXBpMbjzeYJlwTIi3BmAK iTunes: https://podcasts.apple.com/ie/podcast/trsi/id1502422176
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Some Irish colleges now offer high-points courses to students on a random basis, partly due to grade inflation. Asked if this was fair, Norma Foley said students who miss out on their dream course can pursue “other avenues”, and that grade inflation ensured “equity” amid Covid.
“On thin ice”: Ben Scallan challenges Taoiseach Simon Harris and Roderic O’Gorman on the government’s “non-stop misinformation”, particularly in the run up to the Family and Care referendums.
Georgia’s ruling party gets democratic and everyone freaks out; Ukraine invades Russia; and Sinn Fein’s spurned lovers in the NGOs. PODCAST: https://gript.ie/podcasts/trsi-404-where-the-money-lives/ Available on Spotify & iTunes Spotify https://open.spotify.com/show/2BXBpMbjzeYJlwTIi3BmAK iTunes: https://podcasts.apple.com/ie/podcast/trsi/id1502422176
John and Sarah discuss beauty contests this week: The upcoming election, during which politicians will flash their ankles. The Democratic Convention, which attempted to entice us to Kamala, and the Rose of Tralee, which has nothing to do with beauty at all: PODCAST: https://gript.ie/podcasts/beauty-pageants/ 00:00 Apologies and Introduction 01:22 Minor Public Spat and Election Speculation […]
According to Europol data, the vast majority of terror arrests in Ireland over the last decade involved far-left Socialist dissidents and Jihadists – yet the media can’t stop talking about ‘the far-right’, who statistically pose a much smaller threat. Ben Scallan comments.
Asked if Ireland’s significant teacher shortage is due to lack of investment, Education Minister Norma Foley says her Department is the “third highest spending” government department, and that “We have never had as many teachers employed in the system as we do currently.”
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In the first of 3 videos, Gript speaks to locals in Dundrum, Tipperary, who say that government actions in relation to IPAS centre is “abominable”. TD says locals protesting asylum centre are “shocked and devastated” by government
England’s recent unrest; the economic advisor to the Taoiseach has said that tech firms leaving Ireland could make “austerity look like an episode of Care Bear;” and sometimes a warning shot isn’t enough and other unpopular views. PODCAST: https://gript.ie/podcasts/trsi-403-an-entirely-circular-room/ Available on Spotify & iTunes Spotify https://open.spotify.com/show/2BXBpMbjzeYJlwTIi3BmAK iTunes: https://podcasts.apple.com/ie/podcast/trsi/id1502422176
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Irish politicians from almost every party consistently use the same talking point: that communities have “no veto” over who lives in their area. Helen McEntee said that such a veto would be used “by those who simply don’t want this to happen at all.
“It’s an unfortunate trend”: Detective Chief Superintendent Séamus Boland of the Garda National Drug and Organised Crime Bureau tells Ben Scallan that authorities believe organised crime groups are trying to import “dangerous” drugs like fentanyl and nitzanes into Ireland.