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'If I was in despair I wouldn’t get out of bed in the morning’ - Leon Diop on building a New Ireland
Episode 322
When he was 11, Leon Diop had his first experience of aggressive racism.
But his identity was something he wrestled with in many ways.
In a remarkable…
5 months, 2 weeks ago
Rule West Britannia
Episode 321
Causes, as we know, are notoriously bloodthirsty,’ James Baldwin wrote.
What does it do to do somebody when they have crossed the boundary into a wor…
5 months, 2 weeks ago
Stakeknife, MI5 and the dirtiest war
Episode 320
When the state sanctions it, is it murder? When the state protects its agents from the consequences of their crimes, how long before cynicism corrupt…
5 months, 3 weeks ago
Eoin Ó Broin - Why the government doesn’t want to fix the housing crisis
Episode 319
In 1948, Herbert Simms, under increasing pressure from the demands of his job, took his own life.
The pressure came from his job as Dublin’s housing a…
5 months, 3 weeks ago
Australia has banned social media for kids but will AI take over their world?
Episode 318
During the heroin epidemic in Dublin in the 1980s, one drug baron infamously remarked as he was jailed, ‘If you think we’re bad, wait til you see wha…
5 months, 3 weeks ago
The Peace President - Infantino drags FIFA to a new low
Episode 317
When Gianni Infantino created FIFA’s Peace Prize, how could he have imagined that the inaugural winner would be his great friend Donald Trump.
But the…
5 months, 4 weeks ago
Why I Quit the US Government
Episode 316
“I believe to the core of my soul that the response Israel is taking, and with it the American support both for that response and for the status quo …
6 months ago
2030 A Space Odyssey - Be Afraid, Be Very Afraid
Episode 315
Are there reasons to embrace AI? Are the doomsayers wrong and the apocalyptic warnings overstated? What if an ordinary person can access medical or l…
6 months ago
Bohemian Rhapsody. Dan Lambert, the powerhouse behind Kneecap & Bohemian FC
Episode 314
Daniel Lambert is many things, football man, band manager and activist.
Kneecap’s manager was the driving force behind the motion approved by the FAI …
6 months ago
Champion jockey Oisin Murphy on surviving on vodka and obsession
Episode 313
Oisin Murphy has been the Champion Jockey in Britain for the past two years. He will travel the country and beyond in pursuit of a winner. Horse raci…
6 months, 1 week ago