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- 27. Budget 2021, COVID, Climate Action and NAMA
This week we’re joined by Saoirse McHugh and Conor McCabe to discuss:
- The individualisation of Covid and missed opportunities
- Covid fines
- Sick pay
- Airlines & lobbying power
- Budget - supports funnelling into private pockets
- Climate Action Bill
- Earth to Dan O Brien - EU debt to GDP is actually low
- Carrickmines anniversary
- Housing agency & Build to rent
- Spent Convictions Bill
- Fergus McCabe
- Mick Clifford: Fascists = Anti-Fascists?
- NAMA and no accountability
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1 hr 13 min - 26. Launch of Left Bloc - a left wing media and political education project
On this special episode, our hosts David Gibney and Clare O'Connor talk to Stiofán Ó Nualláin, Emma Clancy and John Barry about #LeftBloc, an exciting new media and political education project in Ireland. Included in the media hub is A Worker's Guide to Everything; The Week at Work; Nuall Na NÓg; Offshore; A news based website; and a Climate Justice podcast currently in production.
If you want to support the project you can do so at www.patreon.com/leftbloc. And don't forget to subscribe and share. Up the workers!
45 min - 25. Dying with Dignity Special with Vicky Phelan & Gino Kenny TD
On this special episode we talk to Vicky Phelan and Gino Kenny TD about the upcoming vote on the Dying with Dignity Bill and why we need to have this important discussion now. Vicky exposed the cervical cancer scandal and is living with terminal cancer and Gino Kenny has proposed the Bill that would allow those with terminal illnesses to have assistance in achieving a dignified and peaceful end of life.
39 min - 24. COVID Island, Seamus Wolfe & the KKK, the Green Party oppose a ‘Just Transition’
This week we are joined by Stiofán Ó Nualláin from Trademark Belfast to discuss: COVID Island, Seamus Wolfe & the KKK, the Green Party oppose a ‘Just Transition’, Michael Darcy & TDs who lobby, education errors, a four day week, wage subsidy scheme & Debenhams, Mairead McGuinness as commissioner for financial services, Cable Street & communists banned from the US.
59 min - 23. COVID & capitalism, Dying with Dignity, flat rate expenses & airline arseholes
This week we're joined by Independent TD for Donegal, Thomas Pringle, and Community Activist Michelle Byrne to discuss: COVID & capitalism, Third Level Education rankings & student poverty, airline arseholes, flat rate expenses, Debenhams and Estee Lauder strikes, VAT cuts & spreading the virus, businesses seek to restrict protests, Dying with Dignity Bill, co-positions on co-living by Housing Minister, Spike Island sacks union activists, Red C poll, environmentally reckless capitalism, publicly funded private schools and FG Minister interferes with GMIT governance.
1 hr 11 min - 22. Unquiet Graves - British govt collusion with loyalist death squads in Northern Ireland
In this episode we talk to Bernadette McAliskey and Ciaran Campbell whose families were both targeted by loyalist death squads. We get their reflections on "Unquiet Graves", the documentary about British government collusion with the Glenanne Gang, leading to the murders of more than 120 people, including the Dublin/Monaghan bombings.
47 min - 21 Bernadette McAliskey , COVID & working class communities, homeless deaths, Ruth Bader Ginsberg, rise of fascism, Terrence WheelockThis week we’re joined by Bernadette McAliskey for a two part discussion. In part one we discuss:- COVID and working class communities- Spike in homeless deaths- Ruth Bader Ginsberg- Infants taken into State care- Terrence Wheelock anniversary- Capital Gains Tax and shareholder dividends- inequality and the rise of fascism; and- The consequences of not having all-island Covid Approach47 min
- 20. Rise of Far Right, Debenhams, Brexit, Good Friday Agreement, Childrens Mental Health, Red C PollThis Week on episode 20 we have Aoife Grace Moore, Ciaran Campbell and Glenn Fitzpatrick with us to discuss the stories of the week. We discuss new Covid strategy, the rise of the far right, violence at far right marches in Dublin, lack of access to adequate mental health supports for children, TriBeca development, Brexit and the withdrawl agreement, the Debenhams strike, the future of Unions and left unity, The Red C polls and much more.1 hr 13 min
- 19. Extra Garda powers, Thiago Cortez's death, banning meal deals and job losses
This week we’re joined by Clare Daly MEP and Eoghan Fox, Mandate activist to discuss: Banning meal deals & food poverty, Thiago Cortez and the gig economy, extra Garda powers, Debenhams, Tourism job losses, Aoibhinn Ní Shúilleabháin & sexual harassment in UCD, COVID and the retail boom, Ryanair CEO bonus v pay cuts, Tony Abbott, Spike Island toilets, Direct Provision, Mercosur and EU trade deals, a new Commissioner, Occupied Territories Bill, Donald Trump and much more…
1 hr 10 min - 18. Sexism & racism in the Oireachtas, the far right, Phil Hogan, rise in homelessnessThis week we are joined by Senator Eileen Flynn and Mark Malone to discuss: sexism & racism in the Oireachtas, a flood of redundancies ahead? unpacking the far right, Phil Hogan, Israeli settlements, rise in homelessness, the Miami showband massacre, Ministers demanding paintings, tax avoidance of US companies, profit rise for gambling outlets, Sarah McInerney, and much more.1 hr 12 min
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