We spend a lot of time on the Mandelson affair. Dont think it cant happen in Ireland. Then we switch to street littering where local councils leave junk in the form of useless posts or signage all over out cities. More on this to come but we have uncovered a typical example in Oliver Plunket St in Cork. Then we come to jaywalking which is endemic across Ireland and trace that back to the traditional sport of road bowling. That should keep you going for a bit.

Sorry this is a bit late but we had a fistfight with our service provider. Its all alright now. Phew. Let us know what you think about the new format

Well we won’t be doing any more speech only podcasts, we have decided to take the momentous step into video production which will take to the air, same bat time, same bat channel. in two weeks time. For the first time, to use Ciaran’s phrase, you will be able to see him picking his hair and me combing my nose. Plus we will be doing more video inserts and perhaps interviews.

In this last speech only podcast we have a review of 2025 and predictions for 2026, so nothing very exciting but we hope interesting nonetheless, Stick with us.

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Sorry about last week we were hoping to do a test of our new video format but there were some technical problems which stopped us at the last minute. We’re still on line for a new launch in the early part of the New Year.

This is our lighter hearted review of Christmas Traditions. Enjoy !

A Merry Christmas and a Happy New year to all our listeners.

We make no apologies for returning to the topic of broadcasting bias and especially in the BBC. Too much has happened for it to be ignored. Apart from Troy Parrot and Harry Kane carrying their Nation Teams into the World Cup Finals (well nearly anyway)

APART FROM OUR NORMAL SNIPPETS, WHICH COVER A RANGE FROM ANDREW MOUNTBATTEN ETC ETC, TO HANK MARVIN’S BIRTHDAY, WE FOCUS ON WHY CENSORSHIP HAPPENS AND WHY OUR POLITICS IS SO VACUOUS THESE DAYS.

WELL WE COVER LOCAL STUFF LIKE LENNY HENRY’S NEW BOOK, UK ECONOMIC COLLAPSE, THE INCOMPETENCE OF KEIR STARMER AND THE STUPIDITY OF OXFORD GRADUATES. PLUS THE VASTNESS OF SPACE AND INTER-STELLAR VISITORS. THATS A GOOD RANGE OF INTEREST....

We cover a lot of ground this week. Anti-semitism, driving from Cork to London, Potholes, Irish Presidency, awful Labour Conference.....And then the meat. How do people get their information these days with the unreliability of almost all data sources. No sport though...

That was what Dr Johnson called Patriotism. It’s our main topic for this podcast. What does it mean? Why should we expect citizens to be patriotic ?

We also touch on Jim’s birthday and his unexpected telephone call from a Spurs Legend...yes really! Plus Trump's visit, the ULEZ website in the UK and many other snippets, but not football...well apart from the phone call.

Welcome back after our Summer Break. We’ve made a few format changes. Firstly we’ll be producing pods on a fortnightly basis rather than weekly and each podcast will be in two sections. The first is the 'Snippets ‘ Section which is about half an hour of things which have caught our eye, bad jokes and slightly off piste comments on current news issues. The second section will cover a single topic in more detail.

This week we’re talking about alcohol and its role in British and Irish culture.

Enjoy.