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- 77. What’s the alternative?
In this special episode, Dave Gibney and Conor McCabe discuss the alternative Budgets produced by Sinn Fein, Social Democrats, Labour Party and People Before Profit.
From domestic violence to public transport, and from the nationalisation of private healthcare to tax, spend and borrow, we explore the offers from each of the opposition parties.
1 hr 14 min - 76. Garda corruption, Hotels v Culture & Comrade Sally Rooney
This week we discuss:
- Sally Rooney & Palestine
- Gardaí corruption
- Hotels v Culture: Cobblestone & Merchants Arch
- Cooking up sustainable solutions with Landrover
- Uncertain reopening next week
- Call to continue remote working
- Blaming young people for upcoming energy crisis
- Dara Quigley apology
- Blaming PUP for not attracting workers
- Dunnes Stores petition
And much more…
1 hr 15 min - 75. Pre-Budget, Corporation Tax Changes & Climate SurveysThis week we're joined by Ciaran Nugent from the Nevin Economic Research Institute (NERI) to discuss Budget 2022, corporation tax changes and inequality, among other issues.1 hr 14 min
- 74. Affordable Housing, Corporation Tax & Paying for Data CentresThis week we’re joined by Lorna Bogue & Michael Rafferty from An Rabharta Glas – Green Left to discuss:Alternative Housing PlansRepair and lease scheme’s failure to deliver homes, except WaterfordCorporation Tax PlansData Centres & Energy Price Rises20th anniversary of Martin O’Hagan’s MurderGovernment rewards for frontline workersAnd much more…1 hr 19 min
- 73. Presidents & Partitions, Pensions & PRSI & Bad Bosses
This week Michelle and Conor discuss:
- Michael D. Higgins & partition celebrations
- Bruton, Briton and class war
- Return to office
- Crisis in care
- Pensions
- Worker wins sexual harassment case
- Glenveagh Properties fanboy piece
- Enterprise Ireland to Cairn Homes trajectory
- Land Rover and Brian O’Driscoll solve the climate crisis
And much more…
1 hr 3 min - 72. Varadkar’s Populism, Slaintecare Resistance & Sinn Fein Tops Polls
This week Dave and Conor discuss the weeks news and the weekend newspapers with stories ranging from Leo Varadkars “populism” in seeking tax cuts and pensions increases, to Sinn Fein topping the Red C and B&A polls.
1 hr 7 min - 71. Housing For All, Piglet Gate & Harney’s Healthcare
This week we discuss:
- Housing for All
- Property prices set to soar (again)
- Wage suppression of construction workers
- Ministers use app to wipe texts
- Piglet gate
- Mother and baby homes crimes
- Bias in Northern Irish media re: United Ireland?
- 4,500 LC blocked from college annually?
- EU Army
- Glorifying Irish army rangers who carry logs in Afghanistan
- State may sell off more of its AIB shares
- Trucks avoiding tolls by passing through Abbeyleix
- Declan Ganley shelves plan for respirator as he waits for worse pandemic
- Mary Harney has a vision for our healthcare system
- USA (Pot) lectures China (Kettle) on climate change
And much more…
1 hr 11 min - 70. Spock Lightyear, Unite’s New Gen Sec & Cocaine is ‘Everywhere’
This week we’re joined by Stiofán Ó Nualláin from Trademark Belfast to discuss:
- Sharon Graham elected Gen Sec of Unite
- Four weeks to Covid guidelines lifted
- High level of Covid sees Ireland classified as ‘dark red’
- Cocaine is ‘everywhere’ and also ‘not everywhere’
- Swimming Cows
- Ireland welcomes Afghan refugees
- Homes up for raffle to fund schools
- Social housing to be commodified?
- Gaeltacht homes on hold
- Pedestrianisation extended
- Charity chairman steps down
- Luas and tolls losses supplemented by state
- RTE staff salaries
And much more…
1 hr 10 min - 69. Arts Council Ads, Insurance Cartels & Privatised Healthcare
This week we discuss:
- COVID cases and the GAA
- Arts Council ads invoke systemic racism comparisons
- Brokers aid insurance hikes
- Galway horror crash
- 900,000 on hospital waiting lists
- Pensioners travel north for eye operations
- Covid inspections of hospitality sector
- First recorded rainfall on Greenland’s ice sheet
- Industrial action on the cards in DAA
- Bus Drivers reject proposals
- Owen Keegan and removal of homeless tents
- Woman “having affair” with chimp banned from visiting him
- Afghanistan, the US and Saudi Arabia
- Bolsonaro fanning the flames on Amazon destruction
And much more…
1 hr 8 min - 68. Climate breakdown, Energy Shortages & IDA gifts to millionaires
This week we’re joined by John Barry, Professor of Green Political Economy, Queens University, to discuss:
- Climate breakdown & the IPCC report
- Seaweed solutions, electric cars, robot trees and the free Luas
- €500m state gift to housing developers
- Dublin bus workers reject erosion of working conditions
- Enterprise Ireland & the IDA – gifts to millionaires
- Individual carbon footprint lie
- Irish Water & housing
- The Taliban, a US intervention
- 23 years after Omagh bombing
And much more…
1 hr 16 min
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