Gript Media Podcasts

Leo leaks the budget, which must really annoy Phil Hogan; someone is leaking NPHET recommendations to the press; 80% of those who test positive to COVID-19 test are asymptomatic or have mild symptoms; and why you shouldn't decapitate a teacher for showing a picture of your prophet.

 

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Father Luuk Jansen, from St Mary’s Church in Cork, brings us his Sunday Reflection. This week he discusses Matthew 22:15-22, in which the Pharisees try and entrap Jesus with a question about Caesar.

Michael sits down with the political advisor and bioethics expert David Mullins about the passing of the Dying with Dignity Bill. They talk about the bill itself, the lack of debate about the bill in the Dail, why the amendment to put it to a special committee failed, and what comes next.

It's never a good day when the organisation sending you legal letters gets a €61 million budget increase; the return of the 9% VAT is akin to breaking a man's legs and then giving him a lovely pair of shoes; Senator Lorraine Clifford Lee's problem is not that she (allegedly) bullied her staff, it's that she (allegedly) didn't bully them hard enough; and there's no space for hope in a world where any swan you meet could be a rapist.

https://gript.ie/barbie-kardashian-the-story-tusla-wants-to-keep-a-secret/

https://gript.ie/i-was-left-with-ptsd-former-assistant-to-lorraine-clifford-lee/

In preparation for that moment when the government decides you're now allowed to have 15-20 people in your house for a meal Patricia walks you through how to host a large supper party.

Nearly 100,000 women have missed cervical cancer screenings due to fear of COVID-19; it now looks like the stories of mass sterilizations of immigrant women in ICE detention centers were simply untrue; Antifa are now publicly threatening mainstream Irish journalists with violence if those journalists report something Antifa doesn't approve of; and World Rugby bans trans women players from women's contact rugby after an impressively rigorous review of the evidence. 

 

https://www.irishtimes.com/news/ireland/irish-news/nearly-90-of-women-have-not-responded-to-cervical-screening-invitations-1.4377785

https://www.irishtimes.com/news/ireland/irish-news/hundreds-clash-in-violent-exchanges-at-dublin-protests-1.4377808

https://projectsouth.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/OIG-ICDC-Complaint-1.pdfhttps://playerwelfare.worldrugby.org/gender

Father Luuk Jansen, from St Mary’s Church in Cork, brings us his Sunday Reflection. This week he discusses Matthew 22:1-14, the Parable of the Wedding Feast.

A reminder that you shouldn't plot to kidnap an elected representative, no matter how tempting it is; polling indicates the public want COVID-19 restrictions; a world without private cars ; and the unnecessary passing of the Dying with Dignity Act.

https://www.irishtimes.com/news/environment/future-of-people-driving-around-country-in-private-cars-is-fantasy-built-on-cheap-oil-1.4376109https://www.irishtimes.com/news/health/irish-times-poll-majority-of-people-believe-pandemic-will-get-worse-1.4376070https://www.rte.ie/brainstorm/2020/1008/1170186-microsoft-excel-covid-cases-uk-government-mistakes/https://www.irishexaminer.com/world/arid-40061816.html

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XWQMMPFtoG4

A town in Cork wants to change traffic regulations in order to show how inclusive they are; Gardai apparently fear "far-right violence"; the Irish Heart Foundation has gotten itself confused again, and the Saudis have some unkind words for their Palestinian friends.

https://www.irishexaminer.com/news/arid-40060616.htmlhttps://www.irishexaminer.com/news/arid-40059962.htmlhttps://irishheart.ie/news/budget-2021-the-irish-heart-foundation-calls-for-new-tax-on-e-cigarettes/https://www.nytimes.com/2020/10/06/world/middleeast/saudi-arabia-palestinians-israel.html

Getting the foot in the door for assisted suicide; a Green Party Senator says openly what the Green Party thinks internally; the Leaving Cert grading continues its graceless descent into fiasco; and American immigration takes a hard line on membership of a Communist Party.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nzMahrucH04&thttps://www.uscis.gov/sites/default/files/document/policy-manual-updates/20201002-PartyMembership.pdf