Gript Media Podcasts

This episode sees Paddy Manning and Michael Dwyer discuss our chances of an election early next year, Colette Brown's recent article on the UN migration pact, and the warnings of the Irish Fiscal Advisory Council about the Irish economy.

00:00 - Election worries

25:13 - Collette Browne article on UN migration pact

1:03:01 - Irish Fiscal Advisory Council warns of economic risks

Michael Dwyer interviews Gary Kavanagh, Director of the Edmund Burke Institute, on his political philosophy, his childhood, his views on Irish media, and if he thinks the conservative movement in Ireland has a future.

01:28 - First political experience

05:10 - When did you get interested in Irish politics?

05:35 - When did you start reading philosophy and what were you reading?

07:50 - Are you basically just a Stoic?

14:40 - Your views on Camus

22:45 - Systemic fragility and how institutions and societies die.

29:00 - Do you agree that liberals have an overly optimistic view on their ability to build new institutions and how much we understand them?

35:40 - Why certain institutions work and the reality of human nature.

39:00 - How biased is the Irish media/why don't the public trust journalists?

51:01 - A small, recent example of multiple Irish newspapers simply lying about something.

55:15 - Fact-checking sites and bias / thejournal.ie changing its own factchecking results

57:43 - The future of the conservative movement in Ireland. Does it have one?

This episode sees Gary Kavanagh and Michael Dwyer discuss Peadar Toibin's plans to set up a new pro-life, Republican, political party. They discuss what we know about the party so far, how they think it'll come together, and where they think it can position itself to succeed.

Paddy Manning and Michael Dwyer review the new Coen brothers' film, or collection of short films if you'd prefer, The Ballad of Buster Scruggs.

This episode sees Michael Dwyer and Paddy Manning discuss the passage of the abortion bill through the Dail, and the impact that Michael Martin has had upon Fianna Fail, arguing that he's overseeing a hollowing out of activists and members.

This episode sees Michael Dwyer and Gary Kavanagh discuss recent events involving asylum seekers in Ireland. They go into what an asylum seeker is, and is not, what a refugee actually is, and is not,

They then turn to the idea that certain ideas, surrounding migration, abortion, travellers, etc, are simply not discussed or represented politically at anywhere near the level of support the public have for them. They end with a discussion of the fragility of democracy and the state.

0:00 - Please don't set fire to direct provision centres

8:00 - What is a refugee? What is international law?

23:00 - The Direct Provision system

35:50 - The Government and its love of doing things through stealth

41:40 foreigners taking our housing

57:55 The refusal to discuss things the public, or large part of the public cares about, like migration, is dangerous and undemocratic

1:03:45 - Michael being wrong.

1:16:35 The right should be better than the left

1:19:00 - Tibet was awful before the Chinese got there

1:22:30 - The refusal of the Irish establishment and media to discuss pretty much anything difficult

1:24:10 - Political correctness

1:26:30 - The birth of a political 'class'

1:29:50 - The growing disconnect between what politicians represent and the public believes - the lack of representation for pro-life voters in the Dail

1:37:00 - Why there is no middle ground between pro-choice and pro-life positions

1:42:50 - Is the issue that we don't realise how instable democracy is?

1:50:50 - Is a problem that Burke is too readable for people to take seriously?

This episode sees Gary Kavanagh and Michael Dwyer discuss two issues. Firstly the rebirth of the genre of newspaper articles saying the boom is back, and about to bust. Secondly, the new report on 'Femicide' in Ireland, which they argue doesn't actually measure femicide at all. They also touch on CDC reports regarding sexual violence on American college campuses.

If you want to skip ahead to the discussion on Femicide it starts at 47:35

This episode sees Gary Kavanagh and Michael Dwyer discuss the cult classic film They Live. Along the way they ask what exactly the point of the film is, why Citizen Kane is the low-point of Orson Welles' career, and why Michael isn't against the body-slamming of pandas.

This episode sees Michael Dwyer and Paddy Manning discuss Labour's idea of holding a referendum on water ownership; the news that Spain may now vote against the Brexit deal; and the idea of banning AirB&B in Ireland.

This episode sees Gary Kavanagh and Michael Dwyer discuss international men's day, the value of masculinity in modern society, and if what is required is more masculine men, and not more feminine; they also discuss the Cambodian genocide and the news that 2 high ranking Khmer Rouge officials have just been convicted by a Cambodian tribunal; and finally they discuss the new Brexit deal.