Episodios

  • Bob Schmuhl: America, we hardly knew ya.

    Bob Schmuhl: America, we hardly knew ya.
    Oct 8 2024
    The first our US presidential election podcasts hears from Bob Schmuhl. Bob, a professor emeritus of American Studies at the University of Notre Dame is a keen student of the history of American presidents and he has never seen anything like this campaign. He believes that the election will be the most consequential in US history whomever wins.

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    37 m
  • FUNNY MONEY: Elaine Loughlin

    FUNNY MONEY: Elaine Loughlin
    Oct 2 2024
    The budget was delivered this week and the general consensus was that it was a precursor to a general election, possibly to be announced in the weeks to come. So who are the winners on paper and who might be the real winner. Irish Examiner Political Correspondent Elaine Loughlin provides a global view of the big event and the fall-out.

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    32 m
  • MANUFACTURING TRUTH: Paul Rouse

    MANUFACTURING TRUTH: Paul Rouse
    Sep 26 2024
    When he isn’t lecturing on history in UCD or presenting the Irish Examiner football podcast, Professor Paul Rouse mulls over how our world has become so susceptible to lies, spin and misinformation. He has now developed a module called Manufacturing Truth that looks at how there have always been attempts to sell lies in pursuit of political or financial gain and why that has gone into overdrive in the current digital age. Paul Rouse is this week’s guest on the podcast.

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    31 m
  • THE ELECTION OF LIVING DANGEROUSLY: Donie O’Sullivan

    THE ELECTION OF LIVING DANGEROUSLY: Donie O’Sullivan
    Sep 19 2024
    As the campaign rhetoric ramps up and the polls continue to fluctuate, another would be assassin has been arrested in the USA. Senior CNN correspondent Donie O’Sullivan talks to us about the current temperature in the USA, while it is lazy to label all Trump supporters as bigots and why violence is an increasing feature of this election. And he also wonders aloud on what may happen after the polls close and the votes are counted. Donie O’Sullivan is this week’s guest.

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    39 m
  • TIS THE SEASON FOR ELECTIONS: Elaine Loughlin

    TIS THE SEASON FOR ELECTIONS: Elaine Loughlin
    Sep 12 2024
    With the Dail returning next week and the budget on the horizon the expectation is that all politicians will have their eyes firmly focused on a November election. But will it come to pass? And what else can we expect from the coming political season in the wake of bicycle shed-gate (sorry), the Apple billions and Sinn Fein’s recently publishing housing plan. Irish Examiner Political Editor Elaine Loughlin reviews the last week and reads the runes.

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    36 m
  • The Fighting Irish And Hitler: Clodagh Finn

    The Fighting Irish And Hitler: Clodagh Finn
    Sep 5 2024
    A new book details the fascinating stories of Irish people who joined resistance organisations in occupied Europe during the Second World War. Some are well known and have been recognised for their contribution to fighting Nazism under the most dangerous circumstances, others have not had their bravery recognised properly until now. The Untold Stories of the Ordinary Heroes Who Resisted Hitler is written by John Morgan and Irish Examiner columnist Clodagh Finn. And Clodagh is this week’s guest on the podcast.

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    36 m
  • TURNING A BLIND EYE TO VIOLENT DEATH

    TURNING A BLIND EYE TO VIOLENT DEATH
    Aug 29 2024
    Six and a half years after Jimmy Loughlin was beaten to death in Sligo by a highly disturbed individual the HSE has yet to conduct an inquiry into a series of red flags about the danger to the public of the man in question. This is in sharp contrast to the recent publication of a report in Nottingham thirteen months after a violently disturbed man stabbed three people to death. Michael and Paula Loughlin have lots of questions for the health service, but nobody is willing to contemplate some answers. Michael and Paula are this week’s guests on the podcast.

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    42 m
  • ALONE WE STAND? Declan Power

    ALONE WE STAND? Declan Power
    Aug 22 2024
    A topic that is attracting increasing attention is whether or not the state is equipped enough to defend itself from all manner of attack, on land and on sea. This comes at a time when another aspectof military force is being discussed, that of neutrality. To separate the wheat from the chaff on these matters we are joined today by defence analyst Declan Power.

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    43 m