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Why some people fail and some succeed. The story of Roy Keane and Ireland
Episode 372
As a young Roy Keane headed on the train to Dublin from Cork for a coaching course, he saw some railway workers toiling by the track.
‘Look at them fu…
1 month, 2 weeks ago
Fuel me once: When Leo Varadkar ran out of diesel
Episode 371
This week Irish life returned to normal and Irish politics resumed its normal parlour games.
The resignation of Michael Healy Rae was described repeat…
1 month, 3 weeks ago
How the fuel protests exposed the myth of Irish prosperity
Episode 370
‘Nobody has a right to blockade our country,’ Micheal Martin stated when announcing what the government would be doing in response to the protests th…
1 month, 3 weeks ago
The Killing Fields of Oil and Gas
Episode 369
“It is a low bar to ask that people aren’t killed so that I can fill up my car.” Alex Perry is an investigative journalist who has uncovered an extra…
1 month, 3 weeks ago
Trump’s Derangement Syndrome
Episode 368
How close did the world come to annihilation this week? What will happen the next time Trump parades his negotiating skills and can the world always …
1 month, 4 weeks ago
Open the F*****’ Strait, you crazy bastards: Who will stand up to Donald Trump?
Episode 367
Stalin was reported to have asked ‘How many divisions does the pope have?’ when told of the Vatican’s view on world affairs.
On Easter Sunday, Pope Le…
2 months ago
The country that defied an empire
Episode 366
Olivier Norek says he has never met a killer who wasn’t eaten inside by what they’d done. Before he became a writer, Norek was a policeman in the mos…
2 months ago
Victims in the Age of Perfection: The Social Media Pandemic
Episode 365
When a California court ruled that Meta and YouTube had deliberately designed addictive products, many declared that this might be the Big Tobacco mo…
2 months ago
Why Ireland Lost - Living in the Age of Anxiety
Episode 364
Trust the process has become one of world’s worst cliches. But what if the alternative was worse? What if ‘trusting the emotions all around’ was the …
2 months, 1 week ago
Prince Andrew and Bandit Country
Episode 363
Toby Harnden was sent to Northern Ireland for the first time in 1995. A reporter for the Daily Telegraph, it was an assignment that was not expected …
2 months, 1 week ago