The country is heading to the polls this Friday to decide the 10th President of Ireland so we wanted to do a run down of the 2025 race so far;

Conor McGregor, small pharma, 20k on Hermès bags, 3k of stolen rent, Syria, and Fox Hunting, by god this election has it all.

We'll have another episode out on HeadStuff+ this Thursday covering the final week of the Áras race which you can listen to here, alongside all our other bonus stuff and ad free content.

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Part 2 of Saipan and the Roy Keane vs Mick McCarthy fiasco.

Little bit of house keeping, from next week onwards we'll be releasing on Tuesday instead of Monday!

Also....

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Hello, this week we're doing an episode on the early Irish-Palestine relations.

The past two years have been a particularly bleak time in the history of the region but we wanted to take a look at some of the early connections and similarities between Ireland and Mandatory Palestine from the 1920s on and maybe show why so many Irish people strongly identify with the people of Palestinian.

We've also got an ad for Samaritans early in the episode and you can find out more about volunteering for them at https://www.listening.ie/

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This week we're taking a look back at Saipan and the Roy Keane vs Mick McCarthy debacle, and the only way to do that is by going back six years beforehand to figure out what the hell was going on that led to one of the greatest tragedies Irish sport has ever witnessed.

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Hello! With Ireland breaking our hearts in the qualifiers at the minute, and a Saipan movie on its way, we're back talking about football this week.

We'll have a full Saipan episode out soon, but while we were recording that it got us thinking about the man who started it all, John Delaney.

Here's a clip from an episode we did on Don John back in 2020, and you can hear the rest of the reedited version over on ⁠⁠⁠Headstuff+⁠⁠⁠.

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Hello! Here's a short teaser for the final episode in our De Valera series.

Over on Head Stuff+ we did more of a deep dive into his birth (and his dad), the so called "Dev's Vice Act" (which led to a good Dundalk man getting fined for shifting), Dev's relationship with the physicist Erwin Schrödinger, and his ultimate legacy with the Mother & Baby homes, Haughey, and Bertie.

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If you listened to our Muhammad Ali In Ireland episode you'll already be familiar with strongman, showman, publican, promoter and all around great man himself, Butty Sugrue.

Here we delve a little deeper into Butty's extraordinary life, and chat about Mick Meaney, Butty's employee who buried himself underground in London in an attempt to set a world record!

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Well, its the final run of Dev! In this one we cover his last two terms as Taoiseach, his run as President, and talk about his general impact on the country.

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Hello! Here's part three of the Éamon de Valera series covering Ireland during WWII, the 1940s IRA, Churchill's drunken offer, and Hitler's condolence book. We'll be back with the fourth and final Dev episode on Monday!

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Here's part two of three on Éamon de Valera, released on the day of Collins 103rd anniversary. In this episode we cover Dev's part in the Civil War, the creation of Fianna Fail in the '20s, and his wild political run in the '30s.

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