In Episode Nine, John and David look at how twitter's practice of "de amplifying" some news is replicated wholesale in the Irish media - from Brussels corruption scandals, to Leo Varadkar, to the East Wall protests.

This week it's sucide reporting, euthanasia in Canada meets lifestyle marketing, and just death generally.

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hSp8IyaKCs0https://gript.ie/upcoming-ncca-report-deeply-flawed/

Peadar Toíbín joins John and David to discuss post covid excess deaths, immigration, hate speech, the anniversary of the free state, and the "animal hard" job of leading a new party.

The coverage of the East Wall protests; the rise of the far right is now a literary genre of its own; and the simplification of COVID.

 

https://gript.ie/podcasts/trsi-68-what-exactly-are-antifa/

https://gript.ie/over-100000-in-public-money-to-be-given-to-anonymous-far-left-group/

https://www.irishtimes.com/health/2022/12/03/covid-policy-opponents-wilfully-misconstrued-science-glynn-says/

https://www.thejournal.ie/is-the-esb-building-in-east-wall-housing-economic-migrants-or-asylum-seekers-5936149-Dec2022/

Jason O'Mahony joins John and David to discuss Ireland's love affair with all things EU, and what it might take for a new party to break Irish politics wide open.

A special needs school in Limerick is at risk of closure due to the policy failures of the government; China's Zero Covid policies cause havok; and Sinn Fein slips in the latest poll.

 

https://www.hindustantimes.com/world-news/china-builds-26-storey-pig-skyscraper-experts-warn-of-disease-outbreak-risks-101669458362447.html

 

https://www.reuters.com/world/china/huge-covid-protests-erupt-chinas-xinjiang-after-deadly-fire-2022-11-26/

What's broken in Irish politics? In the aftermath of the East Wall dispute, former PD advisor CORMAC LUCEY joins John and David to discuss immigration, economics, and the growing gap between establishment and people

Bernard Durkan has some thoughts on the Rwandan genocide; the National Party experieces some left-wing praxis; and Boris Johnson, possibly accidentally, says something true.

 

https://www.kildarestreet.com/debates/?id=2022-11-17a.316&s=salman#g349

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2022/nov/18/mike-bloomberg-forced-to-apologise-after-boris-johnson-speech-criticising-china

Senator Sharon Keoghan talks to John McGuirk and David Quinn about the worsening atmosphere in Leinster House towards those with non-consensus views. They also discuss the latest coverage of clerical abuse, and a call to suppress all the religious orders.

The ethics of surrogacy and the American midterms. Those are two seperate topics.