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Ger Deering is Ombudsman and Information Commissioner for Ireland. ***** Call me a nerd, I went to see the eclipse. None of your 94 per cent stuff, I went to Spain for the total eclipse, I found a spot at in a mountain village in Catalonia, silly glasses and all, and watched while the moon […]

Jon Burrows is the leader of the Ulster Unionist Party. ***** John Gorman, as Jon noted, was a Catholic and a one-term MLA for the UUP elected in 1998. Since then, the UUP has had a total of 124 MLAs elected. Apparently to coincide with the Fleadh Cheoil na hÉireann taking place in Belfast, flags […]

Jason Pack is the host of the Disorder podcast and the founder of the consultancy Libya-Analysis LLC. ***** We try to cover stuff on this podcast that is under-covered in other media …  and then we got the fuel protests. I don’t want to talk about that issue, it’s been done to death, I don’t […]

John Crotty is an author and historian traditionally published by The History Press and Merrion Press. ***** I came across this on social media, it’s obviously an American anti-tax rant, he’s talking about a tax on a breakfast beverage, that’s obviously a reference to the Boston Tea Party, when according to legend, American colonists protested […]

Joan Esposito is the afternoon drivetime presenter of WCPT and Arnd Bauerkämper is the adjunct professor of modern history at the Free University of Berlin. ***** This piece is not about Trump. I promise, this isn’t a piece about Trump. Well, just a tiny bit, but really it’s hardly about Trump at all. In fact, […]

John Moran is the first directly elected Mayor of Limerick. Automated Transcript There are probably on large number of people in that council chamber that would see themselves as mayor sometime. And therefore, it is actually the nature of politics that they would like to take a, you know, a political shot at whatever is […]

Iain Dale is a presenter on the British talk radio station LBC, former Conservative party electoral candidate and author of the book The Taoiseach: A Century of Political Leadership *****

Frank Connolly is a journalist, author and former head of communications with SIPTU. Tony Lowes is director of Friends of the Irish Environment. Michael Smith is the editor of Village Magazine. ***** Lucid Talk is the Belfast-based polling company which, every year, does a poll on attitudes in the north to a border poll. Polls […]

Kev Collins’ Youtube channel his here. Ben Scallan writes for Gript. ***** That’s a clip I played on the podcast a while back, it’s from one of the far-right protest a while back, and we’ve had a couple more of those anti-immigration protests in the last while. I saw some comments on social media about […]

Dr Kirill Bumin is Associate Dean of Metropolitan College of Boston University and Dr Mordechai Inbari is Professor of Religion at the University of North Carolina at Pembroke. ***** That’s the diminutive Justin Barrett, formerly of Youth Defence and a string of other far-right organisations, Litler himself, talking to a commentator with the Canadian YouTube […]

Amun Bains is a journalist. ***** The first amendment to the US constitution starts “Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof” Our constitution is not quite so concise. Article 44 of De Valera’s handbook for governing deals with freedom of religion. Section one says “The State […]

Daniel Mulhall is a consultant with DLA Piper law firm and, prior to that, he was ambassador of Ireland to Malaysia, Germany, the United Kingdom and the United States. ***** I want to talk about a couple of fellas that I’m really not so sure of. It’s hard to overstate how disappointing the last century […]

***** Now that the dust has settled after the election, congratulations to all the candidates, all 686 of them. Congratulations to everyone from Pearse Doherty who got 18,898 first preference votes in Donegal, all the way down to Seán O’Leary who stood for election in Wicklow and got nine votes. Pearse Doherty got that massive […]

Wendy Grace is a presenter on Spirit Radio and the director of a communications training company. *****

Professor Colin O’Gara is Head of Addiction Services at St. John of God Hospital and author of the book Gambling Addiction In Ireland: Causes Consequences and Recovery. ***** There is a pattern, I suppose it’s so well-known that it’s a cliché, of people mellowing their view as they get older. One version is the famous […]