Fatima Gunning and Jason Osborne discuss some of the news of the week.
Research and Innovation Minister James Lawless says he does not agree that Ireland and the EU are on a regulatory collision course with the US, because Elon Musk is “no longer as influential in the White House” as he was previously:
“Will we have any way to measure the success or failure of the policy?”: Ben Scallan asks Housing Minister James Browne what measurable metric will show if his rental reforms worked:
Taoiseach Micheál Martin is asked why he once called the Triple Lock “the core of our neutrality”, but is now proposing to abolish it:
Psychotherapist Stella O’Malley wrote about being slowly “cancelled” by the Irish media for raising concerns about transgender issues. This week, a senior journalist in the Irish Times has essentially admitted she was right – that the media are “reticent” to cover such issues:
Gript reporters discuss questions over whether the Carlow shooter was was sold guns by Garda members. WATCH FULL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TMT9VEa00vc&t=889s
Fatima Gunning, Ben Scallan and Gary Kavanagh discuss some of the news of the week.
“A futile exercise”: Tánaiste Simon Harris says he does not believe it’s appropriate for Gardaí to be holding recruitment events at IPAS centres, and says he believes that Garda Commissioner Drew Harris will be following up on the matter:
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Are Irish teenagers in crisis? It appears as though they are, according to a major new survey which claims that almost half of teenagers reported feeling low on at least a weekly basis. MARIA MAYNES has more:
But the evidence for those claims doesn’t stand up:
“The nation state is a very new concept.”