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02:17

Donnelly jokes that project cost “6 times more” than expected

Health Minister Stephen Donnelly was told a project would be “great value for money” and would cost “no more than €3m,” which he found “suspiciously low.” He joked that the project ultimately cost €18.4m: “It was a very expensive thing to do…I needed 6 times more money.”

September 11, 2024

06:20

Donnelly pressed on plan to ban disposable vape flavours

“Is it your job?”: As Health Minister Stephen Donnelly announces a ban on disposable vape flavours, Ben Scallan asks if this is priority, given major health crises like child scoliosis wait times or the overcrowding at UHL. Donnelly replied: “We have to be able to do both.”

September 10, 2024

00:44

Martin still doesn’t know who signed off on bike shed

A week after the €336k Leinster House bike shed story emerged, Tánaiste Micheál Martin still doesn’t know who approved the project. Asked by Ben Scallan if it wasn’t as simple as making a phonecall, he replied “No it’s not…It might seem relatively straightforward to you.”

September 10, 2024

01:12:29

TRSI 406 – No good deed goes unpunished

If anything Oasis tickets should cost more; Tony Blair on populism and leadership; Phil Hogan back in FG because why try something new; and a bike shed is not important. PODCAST: https://gript.ie/podcasts/trsi-406-no-good-deed-goes-unpunished/ Photo credit : calzone.photography / Shutterstock Available on Spotify & iTunes Spotify https://open.spotify.com/show/2BXBpMbjzeYJlwTIi3BmAK iTunes: https://podcasts.apple.com/ie/podcast/trsi/id1502422176

September 9, 2024

00:19

Sinn Féin calls for referendum on a Constitutional ‘right to housing’

Sinn Féin has said that within 12 months of forming a government, they would hold a referendum to put a “legally enforceable” right to housing in the Constitution, which would “place a legal obligation on Government” to provide people with homes. Read more here: https://gript.ie/sf-calls-for-legally-enforceable-right-to-housing-in-constitution/

September 3, 2024

01:00:15

TRSI 405 – Others must fail

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

September 2, 2024

12:08

MAINSTREAM MEDIA GETS DESTROYED #media #ireland

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August 29, 2024

04:19

Foley: Grade inflation ensured “equity” during Covid

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.

August 28, 2024

Harris challenged on government’s “non-stop misinformation”

“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.

August 26, 2024

TRSI 404 – Where the money lives

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

August 26, 2024

47:17

Beauty pageants | PODCAST EP96

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 […]

August 23, 2024

09:16

The truth about the “far-right” in Ireland

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.

August 22, 2024

04:44

Foley: My Department is the “3rd highest spending” in Government

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.”

August 21, 2024

15:36

Residents of village to be doubled in size by asylum seekers say concerns “stonewalled” by gov.

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

August 20, 2024

02:42

NEVER AGAIN #thalidomide #media

August 19, 2024

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