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June 13, 2021 TRSI 242 - It's not our fault
Polling and dark campaigns; latest polls show SF are the most popular party, but can they make that a reality; and if the government is doing a mighty job of protecting the aviation industry why did over 450 people just lose their job?

https://www.independent.ie/opinion/comment/confessions-of-a-phoney-pollster-and-a-guide-to-other-political-dark-arts-40529610.html
24 min
June 11, 2021 TRSI 241 - You must believe!
The lesser Mary is at it again; the Maya Forstater case and the respectability of the gender critical view; the intricacies of political polling; and alcohol consumption is going down, but also somehow staying at the same level.

Forstater judgement - https://legal.equalityhumanrights.com/sites/default/files/sites/default/files/Maya%20Forstater%20v%20CGD%20Europe%20and%20others%20UKEAT0105%2020%20JOJ.pdf
56 min
June 09, 2021 TRSI 240 - Vote for our bastards, not theirs
In a year heavy with silly ideas an Irish NGO has gone for gold by saying it wants to give the government the power to remove candidates from elections if they say the wrong things; Ze Germans say they're coming for our EU Veto; and the lab leak theory makes a glorious return to respectable discourse.
52 min
June 06, 2021 TRSI 239 - Professor Theo Boer
We sat down with Dr Theo Boer, professor of Health Care Ethics at Groningen Theological University, to discuss euthanasia, assisted suicide, the cultural impact of euthanasia on the Netherlands, and the future of medical care in this area.
31 min
June 06, 2021 Sunday Reflection 62 - Corpus Christi
Father Luuk Jansen, from St Mary’s Church in Cork, brings us his Sunday Reflection. This week he discusses Corpus Christi.
9 min
June 04, 2021 TRSI 237 - Consensus - real or imagined
The Citizens' Assembly goes off the rails; a Scottish feminist up in court for transphobic tweets shows Ireland how FG's hate speech bill will be used here; FF remain unable to do basic due diligence on their election candidates; and the Belarus situation has been resolved to everyone's satisfaction.
54 min
June 02, 2021 TRSI 237 - Simon Coveney lies back and thinks of China
Simon Coveney made some interesting comments when he recently went to meet the Foreign Minister of China; the ICCL has an interesting understanding of the phrase "100% independent"; and the state is now just giving 6 figure sums of money to anyone who asks.

https://web.archive.org/web/20210531133639/https://www.fmprc.gov.cn/mfa_eng/zxxx_662805/t1880004.shtml

https://gript.ie/gravy-train-how-public-money-keeps-the-iccl-in-business/

https://gript.ie/over-100000-in-public-money-to-be-given-to-anonymous-far-left-group/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3f20L0msLsM&list=PLD5OhzwvKKtOPs27ZJUjJ4Euw793mHgub
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WwyuM0PODuY&list=PLD5OhzwvKKtOPs27ZJUjJ4Euw793mHgub
56 min
May 30, 2021 Sunday Reflection 61 - Trinity Sunday
Father Luuk Jansen, from St Mary’s Church in Cork, brings us his Sunday Reflection. This week he discusses the mystery of the Trinity.
8 min
May 28, 2021 TRSI 236 - We assure you these tigers will never eat your face
Ireland moves into the 19th century as we finally get around to introducing a workable perjury law; the demise of the same sex space; and our annual reminder that TDs can claim more in unvouched expenses than a good portion of this country gets paid
Perjury bill - https://data.oireachtas.ie/ie/oireachtas/bill/2018/112/eng/ver_c/b112c18s.pdf
53 min
May 26, 2021 TRSI 235 - The backroom boys
As the Dublin Bay South by-election descends into nonsense we mourn the disappearance of the backroom boys who knew how to actually run a campaign; Biden's push for a global minimum corporate tax rate; and new Irish research on fracking.
https://twitter.com/OCallaghanJim/status/1396459170136825862
https://www.nuigalway.ie/media/irishcentreforhumanrights/files/reports/ICHR-Report-International-Human-Rights-Impacts-of-Fracking.pdf
50 min