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  • 87. Aisling Murphy murder, justifying austerity & inflation proofed pay increases

    This week Dave, Michelle and Conor discuss:

    • The murder of Aisling Murphy and what needs to be done
    • Pat Rabbitte justifying austerity
    • Facebook moderators bring legal actions to High Court
    • Public sector workers to demand “inflation-busting pay increases”
    • Minimum unit pricing
    • New flexible working
    • Psychiatric  Nurses not getting leave for work related PTSD,
    • Vacant council homes
    • Anti-vax alpha male group established

      • And much more…

      1 hr 11 min
    • 86. NAMA Legacy, Absence Rates & Sinn Fein Top Opinion Poll

      This week Dave, Michelle and Conor discuss:

      • Taxpayers lose as insurers keep millions in state funds cut from Covid pay-outs
      • Revenue claws back wage-subsidy from parents who used it to pay childminders during lockdown
      • Absence rates predicted to rise to 30% as businesses urge new close-contact rules
      • Sinn Fein continue to top polls
      • Eirgrid doubles down on new data centres for Dublin
      • Developers get go-ahead not to include creches in apartment schemes
      • Health workers haven’t been given a “red cent”
      • “Novak is the Spartacus of the new world who wont tolerate injustice, colonialism and hypocrisy
      • NAMA profits and the legacy of the bailout
      • TikTok solicitor advice should be “join a union”

        • And much more…

        1 hr 10 min
      • 85. Water charges are back, Covid worker protections & Pat Kenny dog walking

        This week Dave and Conor discuss:

        • New Covid predictions
        • Lack of protections for workers
        • National Broadband Ireland contract
        • Pat Kenny walking his dog and the anti-vax chat
        • Housing policy and neoliberalism
        • Water charges are back, baby
        • Absence of water charges effectively adding €6k to homes?
        • Archaeology company sues Supermac’s over plaza survey
        • Cryptocurrency ad campaign & the Ponzi scheme that it is
        • Pandemic profits: claiming state supports and paying dividends to shareholders

          • And much more…

          1 hr 3 min
        • 83. United Ireland Poll, Data Centre Expansion & New Covid Mutation

          This week Dave and Michelle discuss:

          🟡 United Ireland poll

          🟡 Property and rent increases

          🟡 Data centres pretending to solve energy crisis

          🟡 New Covid-19 mutation

          🟡 Big tech advocating for higher electricity prices and more infrastructure

          🟡 Assistance with heating bills?

          🟡 Hotel workers living in hotels

          🟡 Greens in Government

          🟡 Huge profits for privatising government failings in IVF, registering births and outsourcing speed vans

          🟡 Children’s hospitals depending on charity

          🟡 Anti-vax zealot may face charges after death of Covid-19 patient

          🟡 Long-Covid patients ‘gaslighted’

          And much more…

          1 hr 4 min
        • 82. Housing Narratives, Covid-19 Failures & Mother & Baby Homes Redress Scheme

          This week Dave and Michelle are joined by Emily Duffy from Parable Communications to discuss:

          • Monday’s Oscar Traynor Road vote
          • Media censorship of DCC & Housing
          • Burke asked Dept of Housing to find flaws in ESRI report
          • Data Centres saving the bees
          • Covid-19 disconnect between govt, NPHET & workers
          • Banks criticised for ‘refusing to finance cargo container homes’
          • Mother & Baby redress scheme and voluntarism of church pay-out
          • Govt. may support Lynn Ruane’s Bill to compel firms to reveal emissions
          • Kyle Rittenhouse not guilty verdict
          • “Foreign investors are neither vultures nor cuckoos, and should be welcomed”

            • And much more…

            1 hr 7 min
          • 81. Sean Fitzpatrick, John Pat Cunningham & High Speed Middlemen

            This week Dave and Conor discuss:

            • The legacy of Sean Fitzpatrick
            • John Pat Cunningham and full military honours for his alleged murderer
            • Taxpayers foot broadband bill for homes already on high-speed Eir
            • Car users face new tolls, parking fee hikes and reduced road space
            • Covid numbers spike while govt plans subsidised antigen tests
            • Academics warn of 12,000-plus cases a day
            • Non-essential services cancelled in hospital
            • Flutter (Paddy Power) to self-regulate – after refusing workers lunch breaks
            • PUP cost drops further as more staff return to work
            • COP26 is a COP OUT
            • Labour Party keeps coalition options open with Sinn Fein

              • And more…

              1 hr 7 min
            • 79. Sinn Fein Ard Fheis, Dept officials who always get it wrong & COP26

              This week Dave and Conor discuss more fallout from the special Budget episode, along with: 🟡 Labour Party responds to TWAW Budget special 🟡 Digicel IPO back in play as Denis O’Brien to slash debt by ¢1.4bn 🟡 ESRI report on social housing slammed as ‘detached from reality’ by Finance officials (the same ones behind the banking crisis and austerity) 🟡 Crying with laughter over a mother’s death: soldiers joked about murder on Facebook 🟡 Arlene Foster and her support for Eoghan Harris 🟡 COP26: Hopes grow of deal to save rainforests 🟡 Agriculture, climate, cattle farming and Irish capitalism 🟡 Amazon moves to increase size of new north Dublin data centre 🟡 Sinn Fein policy shift on non-jury courts  🟡 Climate plan to slash car travel by 25% 🟡 ICTU BDC in Belfast and the Industrial Relations Act 1990 And much more...

              1 hr 8 min
            • 78. Sinn Fein Budget II, Illegal Evictions & the National Herd

              This week Michelle and Conor respond to criticism of our special Budget analysis, along with discussions on:

              • Shannon LNG
              • School struggle for teachers
              • TD security & protest restrictions
              • Illegal eviction
              • National herd
              • Nightclub regs
              • Green Party council on data centres
              • Cat rent, land flipping and Oscar Traynor road
              • Auctioneering
              • TikTok priest
                • 1 hr 14 min

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