TRSI
336 episodes - English - Latest episode: 6 days ago - ★★★★★ - 3 ratingsIt's basically just a more vulgar version of Statler and Waldorf.
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This government came to lead, not to read
December 05, 2021 13:28 - 52 minutes - 54.9 MBhttps://www.independent.ie/world-news/coronavirus/tensions-grow-as-nphet-members-must-now-ask-government-for-permission-to-appear-on-tv-and-radio-41117138.html https://gript.ie/amnesty-shock-department-has-no-official-estimate-of-how-many-illegal-immigrants-are-in-ireland/ https://gript.ie/exclusive-government-has-no-plan-to-cap-number-of-illegal-immigrants-to-be-granted-amnesty/
Have fun riding that particular tiger
November 28, 2021 13:59 - 33 minutes - 30.6 MBPaddy Manning sits in for Michael to discuss the ongoing attempts to have DCU academic Mark Humphrys fired, and the joy of the Green Party conference.
An amuse-bouche
November 26, 2021 13:06 - 29 minutes - 30 MBhttps://www.gov.ie/en/publication/350b7-health-in-ireland-key-trends-2021/ https://www.businesspost.ie/politics/how-ireland-inc-is-changing-tack-as-sinn-feins-path-to-power-opens-up-4bfb3fc9 https://gript.ie/new-bill-would-let-state-detain-suspected-potential-covid-spreaders/
Fungible funds
November 24, 2021 14:13 - 38 minutes - 39.9 MBhttps://gript.ie/the-government-knows-its-electrical-vehicles-numbers-dont-add-up/ https://medium.com/drax/what-is-electrical-frequency-and-why-does-it-matter-fb60ae883246
Antigen testing and its discontents
November 21, 2021 13:29 - 50 minutes - 51.4 MBhttps://www.aclu-wi.org/en/news/aclu-responds-not-guilty-verdict-kyle-rittenhouse-case https://www.gov.ie/en/press-release/cf31d-statement-from-the-national-public-health-emergency-team-sunday-31-october/ - CMO statement https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/question/2021-11-17/57/ - ICE ban illegal https://workersparty.ie/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/Why-nuclear-power-is-necessary-A-discussion-document.pdf https://www.businesspost.ie/coronavirus/state-seeks-to-bypas...
Time to buy some lotto tickets
November 19, 2021 15:18 - 56 minutes - 55.2 MBhttps://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/dail/2021-11-17/9/#spk_25 Green Party submission - https://www.gov.ie/pdf/?file=https://assets.gov.ie/204798/f863b219-368a-4628-9b91-fb4fcb1727e1.pdf#page=null
The importance of scoundrels
November 17, 2021 14:23 - 1 hour - 56.7 MBhttps://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/far-right-could-use-political-discourse-defence-in-hate-crime-bill-to-justify-prejudice-7zcmlh0vs https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2NmZlp2XuBw - Jamie Oliver https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uh13ch_e3eA - BlackAdder https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ueyCT8fN64M - The power station money
Philip Nolan, the new king of science
November 14, 2021 15:07 - 59 minutes - 56.9 MBhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v7OV_Oe7KAo
Congratulations are in order
November 12, 2021 14:30 - 51 minutes - 50.2 MBhttps://ww1.daft.ie/report?d_rd=1 https://gript.ie/quis_custodiet_ipsos_custodes/ https://gript.ie/reality-of-climate-change-is-your-mother-being-gang-raped-extinction-rebellion-co-founder/ https://www.irishtimes.com/opinion/finn-mcredmond-no-end-in-sight-to-the-new-age-of-anxiety-1.4718455
It's either a threat or a promise
November 12, 2021 14:28 - 51 minutes - 50.2 MBhttps://www.gov.ie/en/consultation/47e77-consultation-on-irelands-draft-state-report-to-the-un-committee-on-the-rights-of-the-child/ Smuggling Bill - https://data.oireachtas.ie/ie/oireachtas/bill/2021/105/eng/ver_a/b105a21s.pdf https://www.irishtimes.com/culture/tv-radio-web/claire-byrne-challenges-ireland-s-climate-strategy-people-are-being-asked-to-pony-up-a-lot-1.4725869
Four Seasons Total Landscaping Day
November 07, 2021 14:36 - 51 minutes - 54.3 MBhttps://www.irishexaminer.com/property/residential/arid-40732509.html https://www.irishtimes.com/news/environment/retrofitting-bill-could-come-to-average-of-56-000-per-home-1.4720943 https://www.independent.ie/entertainment/major-media-brands-sign-up-to-climate-content-pledge-during-cop26-41011663.html https://docs.google.com/document/d/1xlEbMab_dRs4Wx3nESYT0bkFb2LluuBHjA9lOEyeWqY/edit - Extinction Rebellion founder piece
More of a novena than a plan
November 05, 2021 16:20 - 50 minutes - 46.4 MBIsraeli document on Addameer - https://4il.org.il/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/blood-money-European-funding-palestinian-ngod-A-case-study-Addameer.pdf https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.aax0848 https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/dail/2021-11-03/3/#spk_9
Less broad, more blanket
November 03, 2021 14:41 - 48 minutes - 43.1 MBhttps://www.presscouncil.ie/Decided-by-the-Press-Ombudsman/9722021-mr-hermann-kelly-and-the-journal https://gript.ie/editorial-on-the-irish-freedom-party-the-press-ombudsman-has-gotten-it-badly-wrong/ https://gript.ie/ben-scallan-why-is-rte-a-member-of-a-climate-change-activism-group/ https://www.orwell.ru/library/articles/As_I_Please/english/efasc - What is fascism?
Zero Tolerance for Zero Tolerance
October 29, 2021 15:32 - 1 hour - 42.4 MBhttps://www.eirgridgroup.com/site-files/library/EirGrid/Winter-Outlook-2021-2022.pdf https://freopp.org/we-calculated-return-on-investment-for-30-000-bachelors-degrees-find-yours-1f2f3c5e6dac
We're going all the way
October 27, 2021 14:29 - 44 minutes - 29 MBGeorge Carlin - Saving the Planet https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rksKvZoUCPQ
You can't stop death
October 25, 2021 12:20 - 50 minutes - 31.1 MBhttps://www.irishtimes.com/business/health-pharma/let-s-talk-about-acceptable-covid-death-rates-before-restrictions-kick-in-1.4707096 https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/respiratory-virus-puts-more-pressure-on-hospitals-38mc3gqw2?t=ie https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20210913-the-little-known-virus-that-surged-in-children-this-summer https://www.businesspost.ie/ireland/rise-in-cost-of-living-alarms-94-of-voters-red-c-poll-finds-53657482
Look out, he's got a weapon
October 22, 2021 12:24 - 55 minutes - 32.9 MBhttps://metro.co.uk/2021/10/21/needle-spiking-everything-we-know-after-women-targeted-in-nightclubs-15461751/ https://www.wsj.com/articles/teen-girls-are-developing-tics-doctors-say-tiktok-could-be-a-factor-11634389201? Shot - https://twitter.com/VitoGesualdi/status/1451071305789292548 Chaser - https://twitter.com/VitoGesualdi/status/1451311741233610764 Family Guy: Joe's New Surveillance Van "How Did They Catch You in 4K?!" but it's in 4K.
Gently swaying should count as dancing
October 20, 2021 13:14 - 53 minutes - 32 MBhttps://www.thelancet.com/journals/lanonc/article/PIIS1470-2045(20)30388-0/fulltext
We tied our debt to a goat and forced it off into the desert
October 15, 2021 16:10 - 44 minutes - 27.7 MBhttps://www.reuters.com/investigates/special-report/johnsonandjohnson-cancer/
Apparently we do food reviews now
October 13, 2021 13:52 - 53 minutes - 33.8 MBhttps://www.irishtimes.com/news/ireland/irish-news/poll-shows-high-degree-of-public-resistance-to-many-potential-climate-action-measures-1.4694287 https://www.imt.ie/news/93-of-irish-consultants-say-they-would-work-abroad-over-accepting-slaintecare-contracts-jmhs-study-09-10-2021/
No one ever said not to speak ill of the recently retired
October 10, 2021 14:28 - 41 minutes - 96 MBhttps://www.irishtimes.com/news/crime-and-law/letters-in-full-what-chief-justice-said-to-mr-justice-seamus-woulfe-over-golfgate-dinner-and-his-reply-1.4404867 https://gript.ie/why-rte-should-apologise-for-their-misinformation-about-poland/ https://www.thephoenix.ie/article/simon-and-sarah/
The Gender Recognition Act May Finally be Useful
October 08, 2021 14:05 - 55 minutes - 128 MBhttps://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/dail/2021-10-06/11/#spk_169 https://knowledge.wharton.upenn.edu/article/will-gender-diversity-boards-really-boost-company-performance/ https://data.oireachtas.ie/ie/oireachtas/bill/2021/124/eng/initiated/b12421d.pdf
A half-cocked cock-up
October 03, 2021 12:43 - 34 minutes - 79.6 MBhttps://twitter.com/WilliamsJon/status/1444344806994497536 https://www.irishtimes.com/opinion/sl%C3%A1intecare-meetings-were-largely-a-waste-of-time-1.4688830?mode=amp
Behold the brick
October 01, 2021 10:49 - 53 minutes - 122 MBhttps://twitter.com/oconnellhugh/status/1440436189404614664/video/1 https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/agenda-ireland-needs-cheaper-homes-not-bigger-mortgages-wwhrxqj8v?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=Twitter#Echobox=1632677329 https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/surge-in-eirgrid-payments-to-avoid-power-blackouts-bqxhpmqvj
Pray for a mild winter
September 19, 2021 14:52 - 58 minutes - 134 MBhttps://www.businesspost.ie/companies/ireland-could-lose-new-intel-plant-as-energy-and-water-services-feel-strain-85e558ea https://www.independent.ie/business/personal-finance/latest-news/thousands-to-be-hit-as-energia-announces-third-price-rise-40860626.html https://www.businesspost.ie/health/tony-obrien-the-apparent-slow-collapse-of-slaintecare-deserves-more-than-a-shrug-of-the-shoulders-e09c5c9d https://www.independent.ie/irish-news/slaintecare-chief-who-quit-says-reform-is-im...
It was actually Iowa, not Idaho
September 17, 2021 14:55 - 52 minutes - 121 MBNorm trying to shill - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mafhr9-lFUM Norm gets kicked out of Iowa - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gBKlXR3BbDU&t=2s
Prudence
September 15, 2021 13:05 - 32 minutes - 74.2 MBhttps://www.independent.ie/opinion/comment/irelands-health-system-isnt-as-underfunded-understaffed-or-underresourced-as-we-think-40852002.html
John Prescott could really throw a punch
September 12, 2021 13:35 - 54 minutes - 125 MBhttps://www.bbc.com/news/av/uk-politics-31978271 - John Prescott comes in from the left. https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-scotland-58024296 - Scottish drug deaths.
The dying scream of a big beast
September 10, 2021 17:05 - 1 hour - 141 MBhttps://gript.ie/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/The-Next-5-years-.pdf https://www.businesspost.ie/news/zappone-was-not-lobbying-when-she-sought-un-special-envoy-role-anti-corruption-watchdog-says-c6de3ad2?auth=login https://gript.ie/anti-corruption-watchdog-denies-ministers-claim-it-said-zappone-did-not-engage-in-lobbying/
Ruling the Void
September 08, 2021 15:44 - 1 hour - 178 MBhttps://www.businesspost.ie/energy/electricity-system-amber-alert-issued-this-morning-f772c7e6 https://www.businesspost.ie/climate-environment/ryan-considers-new-rules-to-improve-air-quality-in-urban-areas-dce39b61?utm_campaign=article&utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=web
Maybe don't
September 05, 2021 12:18 - 1 hour - 153 MBhttps://www.poverty-action.org/sites/default/files/publications/Mask_RCT____Symptomatic_Seropositivity_083121.pdf
Have you ever been synergized?
September 03, 2021 14:37 - 55 minutes - 126 MBhttps://www.independent.ie/irish-news/green-councillor-deletes-milkshake-these-racist-vermin-tweet-40810277.html
Your epistemology is bad and you should feel bad
September 01, 2021 12:46 - 44 minutes - 101 MBhttps://extra.ie/2021/08/29/news/politics/brian-leddin-slurs-against-women https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zcc2t21xlxE https://www.ign.com/articles/y-the-last-man-hulu-fx-binary-tackling-transgender-issues
Supply and demand believes in you
August 29, 2021 15:50 - 51 minutes - 118 MBhttps://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/soaring-pay-puts-waitrose-lorry-drivers-on-a-par-with-lawyers-r5673lbls https://www.businesspost.ie/energy/balance-of-power-why-irelands-electricity-supply-is-threatened-and-what-can-be-done-to-bolster-it-d8fbf07a https://www.idaireland.com/newsroom/publications/ida-ireland-economic-benefits-of-data-centre-inves
Is it a hotpoint you have sir?
August 27, 2021 15:51 - 47 minutes - 108 MBhttps://gript.ie/exclusive-government-has-no-plan-to-cap-number-of-illegal-immigrants-to-be-granted-amnesty/ https://metro.co.uk/2021/08/26/afghanistan-helpline-redirected-callers-to-washing-machine-company-15156117/ https://www.politico.com/news/2021/08/26/us-officials-provided-taliban-with-names-of-americans-afghan-allies-to-evacuate-506957 https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/555a928a-06a8-11ec-89b3-29a9a04e8645?shareToken=93be4692c0e358916b35ef44444a3ef0 https://www.bbc.com/news/...
Less of a statistic, more of a guess
August 25, 2021 12:05 - 47 minutes - 109 MBhttps://www.independent.ie/irish-news/undocumented-migrants-in-ireland-offered-once-in-a-generation-amnesty-40775476.html
Michael on auto-pilot
August 20, 2021 14:46 - 41 minutes - 95.7 MBhttps://www.thejournal.ie/abortion-factcheck-5521191-Aug2021/
I can mash-potato, and I can do the twist
August 18, 2021 14:27 - 1 hour - 150 MBhttps://www.amazon.co.uk/Anpro-Stainless-Potato-Perfect-Vegetable/dp/B07HF1NS12/ - A ricer, it'll improve your life. https://www.irishexaminer.com/food/arid-40360784.html https://blogs.worldbank.org/africacan/what-driving-covid-19-vaccine-hesitancy-sub-saharan-africa https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-021-02158-6 https://www.theguardian.com/society/2021/aug/13/covid-booster-jabs-for-rich-countries-will-cause-more-deaths-worldwide-say-experts https://www.defensenews.com/air/2021/...
We advance funeral by funeral
August 15, 2021 12:13 - 26 minutes - 61.2 MBhttps://www.businesspost.ie/energy/blackouts-loom-this-winter-as-emergency-plan-is-abandoned-f5281ae2 https://www.irishexaminer.com/opinion/ourview/arid-40357121.html https://maynoothuniversity.onlinesurveys.ac.uk/gathering-information-on-anti-choice-protests
A very aggressive application of statistical analysis
August 13, 2021 14:07 - 42 minutes - 96.6 MBhttps://www.france24.com/en/africa/20210730-muammar-gaddafi-s-son-suggests-he-may-run-for-president-in-libya https://apnews.com/article/middle-east-afghanistan-taliban-26d485963b7a0d9f2107afcbc38f239a?utm_campaign=SocialFlow&utm_source=Twitter&utm_medium=AP
Take up the white progressive's burden
August 11, 2021 14:24 - 55 minutes - 128 MBhttps://www.oregonlive.com/politics/2021/08/gov-kate-brown-signed-a-law-to-allow-oregon-students-to-graduate-without-proving-they-can-write-or-do-math-she-doesnt-want-to-talk-about-it.html https://gript.ie/podcasts/trsi-114-katharine-birbalsingh/ https://www.theguardian.com/education/2019/aug/22/controversial-michaela-free-school-delights-in-gcse-success#:~:text=Compared%20with%20other%20non%2Dselective,the%20national%20average%20of%2022%25.
Clear and unambiguous that the laws are unclear and ambiguous
August 08, 2021 12:22 - 41 minutes - 96 MBhttps://www.irishexaminer.com/opinion/ourview/arid-40354553.html?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=twitter
The past is a different place
August 04, 2021 12:19 - 55 minutes - 127 MBhttps://www.rte.ie/news/2014/0624/626038-fianna-fail/ https://gop-foreignaffairs.house.gov/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/ORIGINS-OF-COVID-19-REPORT.pdf
Scorpions and frogs
August 02, 2021 13:01 - 50 minutes - 117 MBhttps://www.independent.ie/irish-news/politics/minister-rumbled-in-extraordinary-leak-ruse-over-katherine-zappone-job-fury-40708099.html https://www.independent.ie/business/irish/rtewill-need-to-be-rescuedstatesnew-consultants-report-40704307.html https://bariweiss.substack.com/p/med-schools-are-now-denying-biological https://aesopfables.com/cgi/aesop1.cgi?4&TheScorpionandtheFrog https://mobile.twitter.com/G_L_Kavanagh/status/1421787842884288530
With the Balkans no news is good news
July 30, 2021 13:33 - 56 minutes - 130 MBhttps://www.euronews.com/2021/07/27/bosnian-serbs-will-shut-down-government-over-genocide-denial-law
The Zapp is back
July 28, 2021 14:03 - 53 minutes - 123 MBhttps://www.rte.ie/news/analysis-and-comment/2021/0726/1237408-climate-change/ https://www.thejournal.ie/obrien-says-e600000-is-not-an-affordable-home-as-concerns-loom-over-poolbeg-development-5507344-Jul2021/
20 minutes every day on how great nuclear power is
July 25, 2021 14:05 - 45 minutes - 105 MBFracking saves the environment - https://www.forbes.com/sites/danielmarkind/2020/11/23/the-united-states-and-the-paris-climate-agreementswhat-does-the-data-say/ https://despair.com/collections/demotivators RTE's climate group membership - https://gript.ie/ben-scallan-why-is-rte-a-member-of-a-climate-change-activism-group/ https://www.independent.ie/opinion/comment/climate-change-is-the-elephant-in-the-room-the-media-choose-to-overlook-40686853.html https://www.independent.ie/opinion...
First you get the gas, then you get the power
July 23, 2021 15:22 - 1 hour - 138 MBhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tNstQ6q-kYw
Death, Disease, Famine, Sinead O'Connor
July 21, 2021 13:37 - 1 hour - 171 MBO'Toole's piece - https://www.irishtimes.com/opinion/fintan-o-toole-ian-bailey-deflects-us-from-the-reality-of-violent-misogyny-1.4624916 Projected deaths in UK from missed healthcare - https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lanonc/article/PIIS1470-2045(20)30388-0/fulltext HPSC's last report on the weekly COVID-19 epidemiology - https://www.hpsc.ie/a-z/respiratory/coronavirus/novelcoronavirus/surveillance/epidemiologyofcovid-19inirelandweeklyreports/COVID-19%20Weekly%20Report_Slidset...
It's too hot for politics
July 18, 2021 14:03 - 28 minutes - 64.5 MBhttps://www.independent.ie/opinion/comment/bitter-and-angry-fianna-fail-are-now-a-laughing-stock-40663668.html https://twitter.com/NextIrishGE/status/1416536109459329026 https://twitter.com/NextIrishGE/status/1416534480093843462 - B&A poll