The week that really was
By John McGuirk, Sarah Ryan
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The Week That Really Was" offers a different and distinctive take on the events of the week of a kind that you won't find anywhere else in Ireland. It is presented by Gript Media Editor John McGuirk, and Barrister at Law and Media Personality, Sarah Ryan.
| Episode | Date |
|---|---|
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Sarah's big American trip
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Mar 20, 2026 |
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The St Patrick's Day Wallet Massacre
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Mar 13, 2026 |
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War, what is it good for?
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Mar 06, 2026 |
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The Apology Industrial Complex
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Feb 27, 2026 |
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Angry White Female
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Feb 20, 2026 |
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Overstaying your visa is a crime
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Feb 13, 2026 |
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The Enoch and Epstein files
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Feb 06, 2026 |
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Flooded with nonsense
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Jan 31, 2026 |
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The Irish Council for Civil Fiberties
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Jan 23, 2026 |
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Immigration, and Customs enforcement
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Jan 16, 2026 |
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The Climate Cost Crisis
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Jan 09, 2026 |
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Another ride around the Sun
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Jan 02, 2026 |
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Pathologising normal
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Dec 19, 2025 |
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Climate, Drones, and migration
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Dec 12, 2025 |
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Abandoned by the left
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Dec 05, 2025 |
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Tax slaves
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Nov 28, 2025 |
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Simon's Folly
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Nov 21, 2025 |
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The Crooked Media
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Nov 14, 2025 |
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One of us
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Nov 07, 2025 |
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Fallout
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Oct 31, 2025 |
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Missi-CityWest Burning
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Oct 24, 2025 |
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Martin Nolan Country
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Oct 17, 2025 |
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Wally Brolly; Budget Folly
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Oct 10, 2025 |
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EMERGENCY EPISODE: Jimless wonders
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Oct 06, 2025 |
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Gaza Gaza Gaza
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Oct 03, 2025 |
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Balls of Steen
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Sep 26, 2025 |
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Becoming Tom Robinson
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Sep 19, 2025 |
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The worst week
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Sep 12, 2025 |
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Mommy's Home
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Sep 05, 2025 |
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It's a love story
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Aug 29, 2025 |
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Droning on
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Aug 22, 2025 |
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Kayfabe
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Aug 15, 2025 |
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Avoidable death
|
Aug 08, 2025 |
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Disunited Kingdom
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Aug 01, 2025 |
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Infidelity: Marital and Political
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Jul 25, 2025 |
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Prancing Princes
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Jul 18, 2025 |
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Nonsense and Nonsensibility
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Jul 11, 2025 |
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Bad Kitty
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Jul 04, 2025 |
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Simon Harris's Statement-itis
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Jun 27, 2025 |
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Getting up after midday
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Jun 20, 2025 |
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Bodily Fluids
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Jun 13, 2025 |
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I hear you're a racist now, father
|
Jun 06, 2025 |
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I'm 35 and I don't have a house
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May 30, 2025 |
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The Michael Gaine mystery
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May 23, 2025 |
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Sinn Fein's Orwell moment
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May 16, 2025 |
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Skort Nation
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May 09, 2025 |
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The €4.4bn Migrant Hotel Racket
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May 02, 2025 |
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The best Catholics in the world
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Apr 25, 2025 |
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Old fashioned women
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Apr 18, 2025 |
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Sex, drugs, and Enoch Burke
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Apr 11, 2025 |
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The many perils of cleavage
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Apr 04, 2025 |
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Toxic Femininity
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Mar 28, 2025 |
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Toxic Masculinity and Vaccine Wars
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Mar 21, 2025 |
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Cheers Pal
|
Mar 14, 2025 |
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Tradwives and Lenin
|
Mar 07, 2025 |
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The female of the species
|
Feb 28, 2025 |
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The Bonnie Blue Line
|
Feb 21, 2025 |
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The Migrant Crime Weekly
|
Feb 14, 2025 |
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Sad Teacher
|
Feb 07, 2025 |
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Powerless
|
Jan 31, 2025 |
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New Government, New President, New Era?
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Jan 24, 2025 |
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24 hours in A&E
|
Jan 17, 2025 |
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New Year, Same Us
|
Jan 10, 2025 |
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Another year over
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Dec 20, 2024 |
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Saying no to Ho Ho Ho
|
Dec 13, 2024 |
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Five more years baby
|
Dec 06, 2024 |
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Election Day Musings
|
Nov 29, 2024 |
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Everything falls apart
|
Nov 26, 2024 |
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The McGregor Trial: A postmortem
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Nov 24, 2024 |
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Voting our way through WW3
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Nov 22, 2024 |
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Campaign Roundup: The debate from hell
|
Nov 20, 2024 |
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No awards for us
|
Nov 15, 2024 |
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Campaign Roundup 1
|
Nov 13, 2024 |
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Orange Man Good
|
Nov 08, 2024 |
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Trump v Harris: Karl Rove predicts the election
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Nov 05, 2024 |
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Small lies like these
|
Nov 01, 2024 |
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All this stuff is normal
|
Oct 25, 2024 |
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Nonsenseland
|
Oct 22, 2024 |
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Bad Teacher
|
Oct 11, 2024 |
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One angry man
|
Oct 04, 2024 |
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We can hate who we want, now
|
Sep 27, 2024 |
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The voters, the fools
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Sep 20, 2024 |
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They're eating the dogs
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Sep 13, 2024 |
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A new frontier for nonsense
|
Sep 06, 2024 |
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Back to School
|
Aug 30, 2024 |
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Beauty pageants
|
Aug 23, 2024 |
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Raygunism Revived
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Aug 16, 2024 |
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Silly Season Delayed
|
Aug 09, 2024 |
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Hot summer of discontent
|
Aug 02, 2024 |
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Gaslight nation
|
Jul 26, 2024 |
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The battle of Coolock
|
Jul 19, 2024 |
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Technical difficulties
|
Jul 12, 2024 |
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The baby bust
|
Jul 04, 2024 |
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Burn it all down
|
Jun 28, 2024 |
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Far Right flying
|
Jun 21, 2024 |
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Licking her wounds
|
Jun 14, 2024 |
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Predicting the elections
|
Jun 07, 2024 |
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A backpack of invisible privileges
|
May 31, 2024 |
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Stick up your posters and see what happens
|
May 24, 2024 |
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Nobody hates you like somebody who loved you
|
May 17, 2024 |
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Doomsday Views
|
May 10, 2024 |
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Perfidious Albion
|
May 03, 2024 |
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The Elephant in the Room
|
Apr 26, 2024 |
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The Cass Report, with Helen Joyce
|
Apr 19, 2024 |
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Satan Lives
|
Apr 12, 2024 |
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Two stuttering wafflers who say nothing
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Apr 05, 2024 |
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Identity Crisis
|
Mar 29, 2024 |
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The Harris ascendancy
|
Mar 22, 2024 |
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Tent City
|
Mar 15, 2024 |
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You're not alone
|
Mar 10, 2024 |
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Driven two Spirits
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Mar 08, 2024 |
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Double Standards
|
Mar 01, 2024 |
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The Taoiseach takes flight
|
Feb 23, 2024 |
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Verifiable lies and boiled tits
|
Feb 16, 2024 |
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Expensive women and fast czars
|
Feb 09, 2024 |
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Crime and no punishment
|
Feb 02, 2024 |
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A carnival of nonsense
|
Jan 26, 2024 |
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The things you’re supposed to think
|
Jan 19, 2024 |
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Unvetted
|
Jan 12, 2024 |
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New Year, Same old us
|
Jan 05, 2024 |
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Reviewing the Year
|
Dec 22, 2023 |
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Unspoken Qualms
|
Dec 15, 2023 |
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The mental load
|
Dec 08, 2023 |
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Oh look, an elephant
|
Dec 01, 2023 |
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Dublin on fire
|
Nov 24, 2023 |
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Were they stoned when they wrote it
|
Nov 17, 2023 |
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Justice served
|
Nov 10, 2023 |
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The ongoing covid hangover
|
Nov 03, 2023 |
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The Far Correct
|
Oct 27, 2023 |
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Hit me Paddy one more time
|
Oct 20, 2023 |
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Hatikvah
|
Oct 13, 2023 |
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Despatches from the Seanad
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Oct 06, 2023 |
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Carlow Teachers redux
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Sep 29, 2023 |
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Giving Both Barrels to the Brand
|
Sep 22, 2023 |
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Anger and Rage
|
Sep 15, 2023 |
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Up the Ra, Down with Cars
|
Sep 08, 2023 |
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Did the earth move for you?
|
Sep 01, 2023 |
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More deadly than the male
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Aug 25, 2023 |
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Seducing the Queen of Lydia
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Aug 18, 2023 |
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Mad as hell and not going to take it any more
|
Aug 11, 2023 |
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City of (no) God
|
Aug 04, 2023 |
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Infertile Ground
|
Jul 28, 2023 |
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Capital Projects
|
Jul 21, 2023 |
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The Far Wrong
|
Jul 14, 2023 |
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Bring back the Old Leo
|
Jul 07, 2023 |
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Anatomy of a scandal
|
Jun 30, 2023 |
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Sorry, but we’re knackered
|
Jun 23, 2023 |
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Truth to Power
|
Jun 16, 2023 |
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Neither head nor tail on it
|
Jun 09, 2023 |
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A lot of dry tinder
|
Jun 02, 2023 |
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The competence deficit
|
May 25, 2023 |
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Inch-ing towards disaster
|
May 19, 2023 |
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Orange Peril
|
May 12, 2023 |
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Baby Killing Pronoun W*nkers
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May 05, 2023 |
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Corruption versus incompetence
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Apr 28, 2023 |
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Life in the wilderness
|
Apr 21, 2023 |
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Knick Knack, Paddywhack, read for Joe a poem
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Apr 14, 2023 |
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Off their heads
|
Apr 07, 2023 |
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How to punch yourself in the face
|
Mar 31, 2023 |
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In a Barbie world
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Mar 24, 2023 |
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Paddy's Day PolyAmory
|
Mar 17, 2023 |
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"Get busy living, or Get busy Crying"
|
Mar 10, 2023 |
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The dangerous Mary Kenny
|
Mar 03, 2023 |
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Better than the slap of a wet fish?
|
Feb 24, 2023 |
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Greetings, and fond farewells
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Feb 17, 2023 |
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The madness of Martin Nolan's sentencing
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Feb 10, 2023 |
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The 5,000 undocumented
|
Feb 03, 2023 |
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Pascal Donohue, sex ed and Enoch Burke
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Jan 27, 2023 |
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The Countess fights back
|
Jan 20, 2023 |
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The health service - a black hole for money
|
Jan 13, 2023 |
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The death of a pope, plus 50 years in the EU
|
Jan 06, 2023 |
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The Great Rathkeale Christmas Bash
|
Dec 22, 2022 |
|
De-Amplifying the News
|
Dec 16, 2022 |
|
Animal Hard
|
Dec 09, 2022 |
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And I will always love EU
|
Dec 02, 2022 |
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The Battle of East Wall
|
Nov 25, 2022 |
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Sharon Keoghan discusses the hostile atmosphere in Leinster House
|
Nov 18, 2022 |
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The open air lunatic asylum that is Mastodon
|
Nov 11, 2022 |
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Father Sheehy versus the world
|
Nov 04, 2022 |
|
Hate Speech
|
Oct 28, 2022 |
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Episode 01
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Oct 21, 2022 |