The Week at Work

This week we’re joined by Irish journalist in Sweden, Philip O’Connor and Sonia Balagopalan, mathematician & socialist to discuss: Golfgate, far right protests & Una McGurk, COVID in Sweden, US elections, the perceptions poll, lobbying power, homes to buy drop but rental properties increase, AirBnB, Troubles compensation and Bank of Ireland job losses.

This week we’re joined by Senator Lynn Boylan (Sinn Fein) & Clare O’Connor (ICHH) to discuss: Varadkar’s dog whistle to white middle class males, meat plants & workers’ rights, hospital waiting lists, evictions & homeless deaths, back to school and manipulating test results for the rich, and much more

This week we discuss: the fiscal stimulus package, deferring the minimum wage increase, super junior ministers paid more than Prime Ministers of Spain and Italy, reopening schools, staycation tax incentives, Debenhams, Green Party developments and much more… and we’re joined by Jean O’Dowd, regional officer for Unite the Union.

This week Sean Byers and Mel Corry from Trademark Belfast review the news and we speak to Dunnes Stores Anti-Apartheid striker and legend Karen Gearon on the 36th anniversary of the strike about Debenhams, Palestine, racism in Ireland and Black Lives Matters (interview at 47:40).

Mel and Sean discuss Apple Tax, Coronavirus a second wave and travel restrictions, Government (Eamonn Ryan) asleep at the wheel on workers’ rights, remergence of property porn, James McClean and sectarianism, and the death of Christine Keegan (Stardust campaigner).

This week we’re joined by the world’s only Professor of Green Political Economy, John Barry, to discuss: Jack Charlton, splits in the Green Party, homophobia and fascists on the rise, Covid bailouts and a second wave (Open the pubs, then close the airports?), Health waiting lists, drink driving and accountability, and much more.

This week we discuss employers milking the state during/after COVID, the Bobby Storey funeral, Barry Cowan drink driving v Clare Daly not drink driving, Fianna Fail TDs demanding a seat at cabinet 'for their constituents', Senator Eileen Flynn's inspirational speech, Irish Water spending billions to redirect the Shannon river for datacentres and sexism in the Green Party? And much more. 

We were joined by Rhona McCord from Unite the Union along with Ciaran Cambell and Stevie Nolan from Trademark Belfast (podcast here).

Special discussion in conjunction with the Trade Union Left Forum about last week’s High Court ruling striking down sectoral employment orders for electrical contractors and threatening trade union rights in Ireland.

Joining us on the show is Brian Nolan (Connect), Muireann Dalton (Mandate and former Dunnes Stores worker) and Conor McCabe (Labour historian, author and union activist).

This week we’re joined by Emma Clancy, editor of irishbroadleft.com to discuss some of the big issues in the news, including the formation of the new government, the Green Party aligning with the right, Ryanair seeking to risk COVID infections; right-wing judges striking down workers’ rights, Debenhams protests at Bank of Ireland; racism in Ireland; and much more.