The Week at Work
By Left Bloc
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Subscribers: 51
Reviews: 3
Episodes: 168
Mar 28, 2023
sick of this podcast now anti everything, when Dave Gibney was talking about trade unionism it was really enjoyable hes gone weeks now its the anti everything wokey woke podcast
Jul 29, 2021
Gavin Elliott
Nov 15, 2020
Excellent podcast. Weekly news from a leftist perspective. Highly recommended.
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Reviewing the weekly news and how those stories impact on workers.
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169. Trinity College Dublin Occupation & Amazon Threats
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May 05, 2024 |
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168. Stardust, Bloody Sunday, Palestine & Trade Union Actions
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Apr 21, 2024 |
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167. Palestine with Clare Daly, Aseel Marabeh & Dean Mulligan
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Apr 16, 2024 |
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166. DUP Crisis, Bertie Revival & Israel Threaten Ireland
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Mar 31, 2024 |
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165. Trade Union Taoiseach, Genocide Joe and Unite Victory
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Mar 24, 2024 |
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164. Palestine, Investor Activists and the "SaveJobs" alliance
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Mar 16, 2024 |
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163. Referendum Results and the Irish Left Parties
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Mar 10, 2024 |
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162. Naomi Klein, The Far-Right, and Ireland
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Mar 03, 2024 |
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161. Gaza , political policing, trade union bill & opinion polls
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Feb 25, 2024 |
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160. Amazon Strikes, Union Rights, and Sinn Féin in the Polls
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Feb 18, 2024 |
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159. ICJ Genocide outcome against Israel, Ryanairs Housing Model & Public Sector Pay Deal
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Jan 26, 2024 |
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158. Palestine, Collective Action and the Far Right
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Jan 21, 2024 |
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157. The Many Myths of C. Desmond Greaves
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Jan 14, 2024 |
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156. Dublin Institutional Landlords & the Research of Pierce Daly
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Dec 26, 2023 |
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155. Class and Capitalism in Rural Ireland
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Dec 17, 2023 |
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154. Palestine, the Ditch and Data Centres
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Dec 04, 2023 |
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153. Knife attack on Parnell Square and the Dublin riots
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Nov 27, 2023 |
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152. Israel's continued genocide in Palestine & this weeks news
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Nov 05, 2023 |
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151. Bernadette McAliskey on Nationalism & the Far Right
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Oct 31, 2023 |
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150. The genocidal siege of Gaza, Israeli War Crimes, DUP rollback and more
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Oct 23, 2023 |
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149. Budget 2024 Special
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Oct 15, 2023 |
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148. Israel, Palestine & Imperialist EU
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Oct 09, 2023 |
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147. MSM's far-left bogeyman, policing of protests and evictions
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Sep 24, 2023 |
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146. USC lobbying, Russell Brand and Scoil Chois Claí 2023
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Sep 18, 2023 |
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145. Electoral reform, Workers' Rights Attacks and Free State mindset
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Sep 03, 2023 |
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144. Budget, State services, Global Boiling, Aib, industrial action & more!
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Aug 14, 2023 |
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143. The Neoliberal Education System and Strikes
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Aug 08, 2023 |
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142. Palestine Special with Dean McGrath
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Jul 23, 2023 |
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141. Climate Change, Iceland Strike and Cluster Bombs
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Jul 19, 2023 |
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140. RTE, Housing and An Scoil Chois Claí 2023 (Part 1)
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Jul 16, 2023 |
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139. RTE Tubsidy Payments, Iceland & Prepping for elections
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Jul 02, 2023 |
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138. Cuba, the Revolution and the US Blockade
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Jun 19, 2023 |
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137. James Connolly Festival with Eddie Dempsey (RMT) & Denise Curran (Mandate Trade Union)
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Jun 04, 2023 |
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136. Media blackout on Peace, Tax Breaks and Tech Workers Organising
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May 28, 2023 |
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135. Northern Elections, Neutrality Attacks and Worker Power
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May 20, 2023 |
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134. Interview with IWU General Secretary
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May 12, 2023 |
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133. Workers’ Day, Niall Collins & Attacks on Media, & Stardust Inquest
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Apr 29, 2023 |
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Ep 132. Good Friday Legacy, Abortion Review, Niall Collins, investment funds, 10B surplus & More!
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Apr 23, 2023 |
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Episode 131. Housing, Irish state & ECHR, Irish Neutrality, Biden & Gardai facial recognition
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Apr 16, 2023 |
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130. Eviction ban, latest polls, GFA anniversary
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Apr 02, 2023 |
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129. Organise where you stand - Eviction Ban, IPCC Report, Irish Neurtrality, Labour Party Conference & Geopolitics
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Mar 26, 2023 |
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128. Eviction Ban, Labour V Soc Dems & Windsor Framework
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Mar 19, 2023 |
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127. Ireland For All, Eviction Ban, Ukraine war 1 year on
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Feb 26, 2023 |
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126. Ireland For All Rally - 6th Feb 2023
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Feb 15, 2023 |
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125. Anti-Far Right rally, New research into Dublin housing, bizarre newspaper supplements, and Bertie's big return
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Feb 12, 2023 |
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124. Far Right Protests and Structural Racism in Ireland
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Feb 05, 2023 |
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123. A Conversation with John Bissett on Class and Gender in a Dublin Housing Estate
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Jan 29, 2023 |
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122. Tommy Tiernan, Far-Right Lies, Stardust Inquiry and Paschal's Poster Buddies
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Jan 22, 2023 |
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121. Matt Cooper's Dog Whistles, Damien English's Missing Home, Bono's Politics, and Harry's Gilded Cage
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Jan 15, 2023 |
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120. Regional Health, Operation Transformation, Bertie for President, and the Politics of Eoin Ó'Broin
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Jan 08, 2023 |
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119. The North, Border Polls, and Irish Neoliberal Nationalism
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Dec 18, 2022 |
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118. Connolly Books, German Coups, Climate Deniers and Leo's Housing Heaven
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Dec 11, 2022 |
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117. A Walk Through the Financial Flows of Dublin
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Dec 04, 2022 |
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116. The politics of activist education on a partitioned island
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Nov 27, 2022 |
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115. Sacking Economists, Twitter, the Assembly, and Bono's Capitalist Heaven
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Oct 31, 2022 |
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114. Fair Employment Legislation: The Experience from New Zealand
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Oct 23, 2022 |
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113. Live Podcast: UCC Trade Union Week
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Oct 16, 2022 |
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112. Housing and Alternative Budgets
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Oct 09, 2022 |
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111. The Budget, Trade Unions, and Irish Unity Conference
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Oct 02, 2022 |
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110. Neutrality, Housing, Bertie, and an Anti-Poverty Strategy for Co. Clare
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Sep 18, 2022 |
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109. Fullstoppers & Semicolonials: Climate Action and Irish Comprador Capitalism
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Sep 04, 2022 |
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108. Token windfall tax, how to ease cost of living & public sector pay talks
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Aug 28, 2022 |
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107. Battles of Troy, Crashing Data Centres & Housing Chaos
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Aug 20, 2022 |
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106. Public Sector Pay, Gaza Attacks & Chorizo Stars
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Aug 07, 2022 |
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105. Water Referendum, Farming Carbon Targets & AIB Sell Off
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Jul 24, 2022 |
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104. Climate Catastrophe, Pension Timebomb & Traveller’s Rights
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Jul 17, 2022 |
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103. Artist Spaces and Property Developers in Dublin
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Jul 10, 2022 |
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102: Ireland Thinks Poll, Housing, Cost of Living, Rove v Wade
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Jul 03, 2022 |
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101. Mick Lynch, Roe v Wade & Housing Vacancies
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Jun 26, 2022 |
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100. Cost of Living Crisis, Public Sector Pay Talks & Varadkar/Doherty Spat
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Jun 19, 2022 |
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99. Launch of Fair Employment Act by TULF
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Jun 05, 2022 |
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98. Northern Ireland election fallout, staff shortages & National Maternity Hospital
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May 14, 2022 |
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97. Attacks on gay community, tackling cost of living & celebrating Russian deaths
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Apr 16, 2022 |
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96. Holohan Hooley, DAA fire & Rehire & Housing Crisis
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Apr 10, 2022 |
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95. 800 Workers Sacked, Neutrality Poling & New Labour Leader
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Mar 27, 2022 |
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94. Ukraine, Sanctions & Being Worth $99m a Year
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Mar 13, 2022 |
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93. Ukraine invasion, FG hammered in polls & Inflation pressures
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Feb 27, 2022 |
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92. Healthcare, Housing, Poverty Index, Stardust
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Feb 20, 2022 |
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91. Leaked HSE audio, abolition of hospital charges & how to blow up a pipeline
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Feb 13, 2022 |
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90. State funding of Vultures, Employers must cough up and the retirement age debate
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Feb 06, 2022 |
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89. Gender based violence, wealth taxes and Bloody Sunday
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Jan 23, 2022 |
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88. The Trade Union Freedom Bill
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Jan 19, 2022 |
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87. Aisling Murphy murder, justifying austerity & inflation proofed pay increases
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Jan 16, 2022 |
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86. NAMA Legacy, Absence Rates & Sinn Fein Top Opinion Poll
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Jan 09, 2022 |
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85. Water charges are back, Covid worker protections & Pat Kenny dog walking
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Dec 19, 2021 |
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84. Mise Fosta (#MeToo), NPHET gagging & SIPTU staff concerns
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Dec 05, 2021 |
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83. United Ireland Poll, Data Centre Expansion & New Covid Mutation
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Nov 28, 2021 |
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82. Housing Narratives, Covid-19 Failures & Mother & Baby Homes Redress Scheme
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Nov 21, 2021 |
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81. Sean Fitzpatrick, John Pat Cunningham & High Speed Middlemen
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Nov 14, 2021 |
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80. Varadkar/Cosgrave, Climate Action & Anglo Irish
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Nov 07, 2021 |
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79. Sinn Fein Ard Fheis, Dept officials who always get it wrong & COP26
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Oct 31, 2021 |
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78. Sinn Fein Budget II, Illegal Evictions & the National Herd
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Oct 24, 2021 |
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77. What’s the alternative?
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Oct 20, 2021 |
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76. Garda corruption, Hotels v Culture & Comrade Sally Rooney
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Oct 16, 2021 |
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75. Pre-Budget, Corporation Tax Changes & Climate Surveys
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Oct 09, 2021 |
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74. Affordable Housing, Corporation Tax & Paying for Data Centres
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Sep 27, 2021 |
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73. Presidents & Partitions, Pensions & PRSI & Bad Bosses
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Sep 18, 2021 |
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72. Varadkar’s Populism, Slaintecare Resistance & Sinn Fein Tops Polls
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Sep 12, 2021 |
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71. Housing For All, Piglet Gate & Harney’s Healthcare
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Sep 05, 2021 |
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70. Spock Lightyear, Unite’s New Gen Sec & Cocaine is ‘Everywhere’
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Aug 28, 2021 |
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69. Arts Council Ads, Insurance Cartels & Privatised Healthcare
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Aug 21, 2021 |
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68. Climate breakdown, Energy Shortages & IDA gifts to millionaires
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Aug 15, 2021 |
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EP 67 - Workers Party, Union Recognition, Leaks, Zappone, Vilified Teachers . Socdems & More!
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Aug 01, 2021 |
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66. Covid Reopening - Water - Socdems - Soup Runs - Climate Change
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Jul 25, 2021 |
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65. Covid’s 4th wave, JobBridge II & Cuban protests
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Jul 17, 2021 |
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64. Boynefires, By-Election Result & Privatisation of Everything
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Jul 11, 2021 |
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63. Homeless Children, Vaccines, Failed Housing Policies & Bloody Sunday Families denied Justuce
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Jul 04, 2021 |
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62. Loyalism, delayed reopening of businesses & the media
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Jun 27, 2021 |
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61. DBS by-election, fake polling & mother & baby homes
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Jun 12, 2021 |
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60. Gardai baton charges, G7 tax plans & DBS by-election
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Jun 06, 2021 |
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59. Vulture landlords, energy shortages & JobBridge II
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May 30, 2021 |
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58. Exploring inequality with Dr. Conor McCabe
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May 25, 2021 |
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57. Palestine, Housing & nationalising Aer Lingus
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May 23, 2021 |
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56. Palestine, Ballymurphy & homeless TDs
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May 15, 2021 |
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55. Eoghan Harris, maternity restrictions & PUP cuts
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May 08, 2021 |
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54. International Workers Day, United Ireland poll & the Great Reopening
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May 01, 2021 |
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53. Debenhams, Alt United Ireland, Socialists in the Dáil, Greenwashing, Citizens Assembly
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Apr 25, 2021 |
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52. Evictions, co-living & LeoTheLeak criminal investigation
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Apr 18, 2021 |
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51. Belfast riots, a new artists union & Amazon union-busting
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Apr 10, 2021 |
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50. Debenhams workers & Gardai, Covid tourism, and old easter eggs
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Apr 03, 2021 |
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49. Beacon, HSE Dossier, Greens, Climate Bill, Adoption Records, Bessborough, Same Sex Parents Recognition
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Mar 28, 2021 |
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48. The North is Next?, New United Ireland?, & Male Violence Against Women
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Mar 21, 2021 |
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47. #LeoTheLeak Garda investigation, Redundancy & PUP, the cost of COVID
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Mar 14, 2021 |
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46. Capitalism, CETA, Hunger Strikes & united Ireland?
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Mar 07, 2021 |
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45. RISE join PBP, Far-Right Violence & Inequality
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Feb 28, 2021 |
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44. We can be Zero, Mother & Baby Home tapes found & Moyross development
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Feb 21, 2021 |
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43. Stardust 40th anniversary, Revenue bill workers for employer’s subsidy and a United Ireland?
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Feb 14, 2021 |
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42. Mother & Baby Homes, Social Welfare Changes and Education during Covid
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Feb 06, 2021 |
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41. Living WITHOUT Covid - The Australian & New Zealand experience
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Jan 29, 2021 |
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40. Zero Covid Strategy, People Smuggling & Mel Corry
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Jan 24, 2021 |
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39. Covid hindsight, Trump mania & George Nkencho
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Jan 10, 2021 |
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38. The Debenhams Strike with Gillian McSweeney from Cork
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Dec 17, 2020 |
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37. CETA , Whistleblowers mistreatment, Project Eagle, Student Nurses & Sinn Fein
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Dec 13, 2020 |
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36. Trans rights, respect retail workers, pensions time-bomb
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Dec 06, 2020 |
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35. ex-Debenhams striker Michelle Gavin explains their dispute
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Nov 25, 2020 |
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Direct Provision, Debenhams, Image Based Violence
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Nov 22, 2020 |
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Fine Gael’s obsession with Sinn Fein, domestic violence & Oscar Traynor housing campaign
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Nov 15, 2020 |
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President Biden, Undercover Policing Inquiry & water charges are back
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Nov 08, 2020 |
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#LeoTheLeak, Mother & Baby Homes, Homeless deaths
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Nov 01, 2020 |
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Mother & Baby Homes, Zero Covid Ireland & Hand Sanitizer deals
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Oct 25, 2020 |
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29. Stardust Inquest, British State Collusion, Covid19 & Budget 2021
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Oct 18, 2020 |
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Budget 2021 & what a Left Budget might look like?
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Oct 14, 2020 |
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27. Budget 2021, COVID, Climate Action and NAMA
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Oct 11, 2020 |
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26. Launch of Left Bloc - a left wing media and political education project
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Oct 10, 2020 |
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25. Dying with Dignity Special with Vicky Phelan & Gino Kenny TD
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Oct 05, 2020 |
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24. COVID Island, Seamus Wolfe & the KKK, the Green Party oppose a ‘Just Transition’
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Oct 04, 2020 |
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23. COVID & capitalism, Dying with Dignity, flat rate expenses & airline arseholes
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Sep 27, 2020 |
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22. Unquiet Graves - British govt collusion with loyalist death squads in Northern Ireland
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Sep 25, 2020 |
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21 Bernadette McAliskey , COVID & working class communities, homeless deaths, Ruth Bader Ginsberg, rise of fascism, Terrence Wheelock
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Sep 20, 2020 |
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20. Rise of Far Right, Debenhams, Brexit, Good Friday Agreement, Childrens Mental Health, Red C Poll
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Sep 13, 2020 |
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19. Extra Garda powers, Thiago Cortez's death, banning meal deals and job losses
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Sep 06, 2020 |
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18. Sexism & racism in the Oireachtas, the far right, Phil Hogan, rise in homelessness
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Aug 30, 2020 |
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17. Golfgate, far right protests, Covid in Sweden, lobbying power
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Aug 23, 2020 |
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16. Varadkar’s dog whistle, meat plants, workers’ rights, evictions & homeless deaths
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Aug 16, 2020 |
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15. John Hume: Covid & Meat Factories: Lockdown: O Malley Report : Debenhams: Far Right Organising
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Aug 12, 2020 |
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14. Greens vote against govt; Homeless deaths; PUP scandal; Sunil Sharpe...
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Aug 12, 2020 |
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13. Ministers' pay, minimum wage, opening schools, stimulus package
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Jul 26, 2020 |
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12. Apple Tax, 2nd wave COVID, economic stimulus, and 36th anniversary of Dunnes anti-apartheid strike
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Jul 19, 2020 |
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11. Splits in the Green Party, fascism on the rise, Jack Charlton & Covid bailouts
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Jul 12, 2020 |
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10. Media hypocrisy on funerals and drink driving, employers milking the state, TDs demanding Ministerial roles
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Jul 05, 2020 |
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9. Strikes ahead as High Court kicks workers…again
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Jul 01, 2020 |
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8. New government, same agenda; the Ryanair infection; profiting from the sick; racism in Ireland & UK
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Jun 28, 2020 |
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7. A new right-wing govt? A new left-wing party? Travellers abandoned by the State...
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Jun 21, 2020 |
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6. What's in the Programme for Government (a Left perspective)?
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Jun 16, 2020 |
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5. Dying to get back to work? COVID, excess deaths & a new “trot” government
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Jun 14, 2020 |
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4. A Left review of the week with Clare O’Connor, Conor McCabe and Sean Byers
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Jun 07, 2020 |
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3. with Lorna Bogue: US riots, €350 COVID lottery win, Green Party Leadership, Government formation
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May 31, 2020 |
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2. Review of the week with Senator Lynn Boylan
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May 24, 2020 |