Ger Deering is Ombudsman and Information Commissioner for Ireland. ***** Call me a nerd, I went to see the eclipse. None of your 94 per cent stuff, I went to Spain for the total eclipse, I found a spot at in a mountain village in Catalonia, silly glasses and all, and watched while the moon […]

Jon Burrows is the leader of the Ulster Unionist Party. ***** John Gorman, as Jon noted, was a Catholic and a one-term MLA for the UUP elected in 1998. Since then, the UUP has had a total of 124 MLAs elected. Apparently to coincide with the Fleadh Cheoil na hÉireann taking place in Belfast, flags […]

Jason Pack is the host of the Disorder podcast and the founder of the consultancy Libya-Analysis LLC. ***** We try to cover stuff on this podcast that is under-covered in other media …  and then we got the fuel protests. I don’t want to talk about that issue, it’s been done to death, I don’t […]

John Crotty is an author and historian traditionally published by The History Press and Merrion Press. ***** I came across this on social media, it’s obviously an American anti-tax rant, he’s talking about a tax on a breakfast beverage, that’s obviously a reference to the Boston Tea Party, when according to legend, American colonists protested […]

Joan Esposito is the afternoon drivetime presenter of WCPT and Arnd Bauerkämper is the adjunct professor of modern history at the Free University of Berlin. ***** This piece is not about Trump. I promise, this isn’t a piece about Trump. Well, just a tiny bit, but really it’s hardly about Trump at all. In fact, […]

John Moran is the first directly elected Mayor of Limerick. Automated Transcript There are probably on large number of people in that council chamber that would see themselves as mayor sometime. And therefore, it is actually the nature of politics that they would like to take a, you know, a political shot at whatever is […]

Iain Dale is a presenter on the British talk radio station LBC, former Conservative party electoral candidate and author of the book The Taoiseach: A Century of Political Leadership *****

Frank Connolly is a journalist, author and former head of communications with SIPTU. Tony Lowes is director of Friends of the Irish Environment. Michael Smith is the editor of Village Magazine. ***** Lucid Talk is the Belfast-based polling company which, every year, does a poll on attitudes in the north to a border poll. Polls […]

Kev Collins’ Youtube channel his here. Ben Scallan writes for Gript. ***** That’s a clip I played on the podcast a while back, it’s from one of the far-right protest a while back, and we’ve had a couple more of those anti-immigration protests in the last while. I saw some comments on social media about […]

Dr Kirill Bumin is Associate Dean of Metropolitan College of Boston University and Dr Mordechai Inbari is Professor of Religion at the University of North Carolina at Pembroke. ***** That’s the diminutive Justin Barrett, formerly of Youth Defence and a string of other far-right organisations, Litler himself, talking to a commentator with the Canadian YouTube […]