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Roderic O’Gorman claims that NGOs are independent of Government. Ben Scallan presses him this, given that some NGOs receive over 90% of their funding from Government, and Paschal Donohoe has admitted they’re only funded if they’re “consistent with the Programme for Government”:
Jason discusses with Telegraph columnist Michael Murphy the phenomenon of Garda recruitment drives in IPAS centres, while Irish applicants are turned down for seemingly trivial reasons. PODCAST:
“It would be irresponsible not to” – Simon Harris says the state will get involved in the design of student accommodation.
Fatima Gunning reports on the latest guilty verdicts reached in the Puska case, having followed the trials closely since their beginning.
Following the publication of the Digital News Report for Ireland 2025, Jason and Ben discuss the state of the media space and how social media has changed it. PODCAST: https://youtu.be/twzccxQnTXA
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.
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