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  • 97. Attacks on gay community, tackling cost of living & celebrating Russian deaths

    This week Dave and Michelle discuss:

    • Vigils for Aidan Moffitt and Michael Snee
    • People want more action taken to tackle rise in cost of living
    • Northern Ireland elections
    • SDLP candidate assaulted
    • Wild seal in rehab after being fed by beachgoes
    • Junior Doctor hit-piece
    • Gaza attacks framed as “clashes”
    • Celebrating Russian deaths
    • UN estimates close to 1m refugees have returned to Ukraine
    • Hotels looking for more money to house refugees
    • Holohan’s truly extraordinary €20m secondment
    • Clare Daly & Mick Wallace more popular on Chinese news than Conor McGregor
    • Amazon profits triple in Ireland
    • The political centre cannot hold – we need a new consensus

      • And much more…

      1 hr 5 min
    • 96. Holohan Hooley, DAA fire & Rehire & Housing Crisis

      This week Dave and Michelle discuss:

      • O’Devaney sell off
      • Homes for people fleeing Ukraine
      • Holohan hooley
      • DAA fire and rehire
      • Clapgate
      • Elon musk and twitter
      • Kingspan
      • Top civil servant hiring process
      • Sinn Fein poll on IRA support
      • Private health insurance profits

        • And much more…

        1 hr 6 min
      • 94. Ukraine, Sanctions & Being Worth $99m a Year

        This week Dave and Michelle discuss:

        • Ukraine could trigger recession
        • Western hypocrisy on sanctions
        • Ireland’s neutrality under threat
        • Ireland can afford to take in Ukrainian refugees
        • Tim Cook is worth $99m – or so we’re told
        • Future of Labour depends on the party offering a real alternative to populism
        • Joan Burton & Frances Fitzgerald discuss politics
        • Father of two killed when tree fell on his car ‘had not wanted to go to work’ during Storm Ophelia red weather alert

          • And much more…

          1 hr 5 min
        • 93. Ukraine invasion, FG hammered in polls & Inflation pressures

          This week Dave and Michelle discuss:

          • The invasion of Ukraine by Russia
          • Sanctions on Russia
          • Far right & hard left make strange bedfellows in their support of Putin
          • Fine Gael drop to lowest support level since 2005
          • Poll shows lack of support for pension rescue strategy (or does it?)
          • New homes supply has ‘gone into reverse’, property lobbyists claim
          • Working from home – improvements to new Bill required

            • & much more

            1 hr 2 min
          • 91. Leaked HSE audio, abolition of hospital charges & how to blow up a pipeline

            This week Michelle and Conor discussed

            - Leaked HSE audio & insight to push back from Dept officials 

            - Rejection of abolishing hospital charges & the mini budget 

            - How to blow up a pipeline

            - Rents out of welfare payments 

            - linking welfare & pensions to cost of living

            - Go ahead for religious detox centre with no medical oversight

            - recommendations for pay increases

            - climate action sabotage

            - Afghan funds

            - Ukraine & Russia fears and the push for military industrial complex in Ireland in new Defence force report.  

            - Valentine’s fraud

            1 hr 5 min
          • 90. State funding of Vultures, Employers must cough up and the retirement age debate

            This week Dave and Conor are joined by Left Bloc & Unite member Glen Fitzpatrick to discuss:

            • Ires Reit profiting from state rent subsidies
            • Extra measures to tackle cost of living must be once-off, warns McGrath
            • Israel is an apartheid state
            • Russia v USA narrative
            • Hospitality groups lobby for overseas recruitment campaign to bring back skilled workers
            • Varadkar may ban use of service charge to top up wages of waiting staff in hospitality sector
            • Pensions age debate – ignore workers, listen to economists?
            • The DUP and the Stormont crisis – a new first Minister on the way
            • Bloody Sunday Anniversary
            • “Employers must cough up”: pressure rises for wage hikes

              • And much more…

              59 min
            • 89. Gender based violence, wealth taxes and Bloody Sunday

              This week Dave and Conor discuss:

              • Gender based violence coverage
              • Closure of only women’s refuge in north
              • Bloody Sunday – 50th anniversary next week
              • Inflation as class war
              • Dunnes Stores worker explains how they *won* 10% pay increase
              • Killian Woods on what is an affordable home, and who benefits from the definition
              • Ryan intervenes (or does he) on ‘senseless' Shannon LNG plan
              • How to prevent a wealth tax - by the Irish Tax Institute

                • And much more…

                1 hr 14 min
              • 88. The Trade Union Freedom Bill

                On this special episode, we talk to Gerry Carroll, MLA for West Belfast about his proposed Trade Union Freedom Bill which has the capacity to radically reform worker's rights in Northern Ireland.

                40 min

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