The Week at Work

This week we’re joined by Saoirse McHugh and Conor McCabe to discuss:  The individualisation of Covid and missed opportunities Covid fines Sick pay  Airlines & lobbying power Budget - supports funnelling into private pockets  Climate Action Bill Earth to Dan O Brien - EU debt to GDP is actually low  Carrickmines anniversary Housing agency & Build to rent  Spent Con...

On this special episode, our hosts David Gibney and Clare O'Connor talk to Stiofán Ó Nualláin, Emma Clancy and John Barry about #LeftBloc, an exciting new media and political education project in Ireland. Included in the media hub is A Worker's Guide to Everything ; The Week at Work ; Nuall Na NÓg ; Offshore; A news based website ; and a Climate Justice podcast currently in production.  If yo...

On this special episode we talk to Vicky Phelan and Gino Kenny TD about the upcoming vote on the Dying with Dignity Bill and why we need to have this important discussion now. Vicky exposed the cervical cancer scandal and is living with terminal cancer and Gino Kenny has proposed the Bill that would allow those with terminal illnesses to have assistance in achieving a dignified and peaceful end of...

This week we are joined by Stiofán Ó Nualláin from Trademark Belfast to discuss: COVID Island, Seamus Wolfe & the KKK, the Green Party oppose a ‘Just Transition’, Michael Darcy & TDs who lobby, education errors, a four day week, wage subsidy scheme & Debenhams, Mairead McGuinness as commissioner for financial services, Cable Street & communists banned from the US.

This week we're joined by Independent TD for Donegal, Thomas Pringle, and Community Activist Michelle Byrne to discuss: COVID & capitalism, Third Level Education rankings & student poverty, airline arseholes, flat rate expenses, Debenhams and Estee Lauder strikes, VAT cuts & spreading the virus, businesses seek to restrict protests, Dying with Dignity Bill, co-positions on co-living by...

In this episode we talk to Bernadette McAliskey and Ciaran Campbell whose families were both targeted by loyalist death squads. We get their reflections on "Unquiet Graves", the documentary about British government collusion with the Glenanne Gang, leading to the murders of more than 120 people, including the Dublin/Monaghan bombings.

This week we’re joined by Bernadette McAliskey for a two part discussion. In part one we discuss: - COVID and working class communities - Spike in homeless deaths - Ruth Bader Ginsberg - Infants taken into State care - Terrence Wheelock anniversary - Capital Gains Tax and shareholder dividends - inequality and the rise of fascism; and - The consequences of not having all-island Covid Approach

This Week on episode 20 we have Aoife Grace Moore, Ciaran Campbell and Glenn Fitzpatrick with us to discuss the stories of the week. We discuss new Covid strategy, the rise of the far right, violence at far right marches in Dublin, lack of access to adequate mental health supports for children, TriBeca development, Brexit and the withdrawl agreement, the Debenhams strike, the future of Unions and...

This week we’re joined by Clare Daly MEP and Eoghan Fox, Mandate activist to discuss: Banning meal deals & food poverty, Thiago Cortez and the gig economy, extra Garda powers, Debenhams, Tourism job losses, Aoibhinn Ní Shúilleabháin & sexual harassment in UCD, COVID and the retail boom, Ryanair CEO bonus v pay cuts, Tony Abbott, Spike Island toilets, Direct Provision, Mercosur and EU trade...

This week we are joined by Senator Eileen Flynn and Mark Malone to discuss: sexism & racism in the Oireachtas, a flood of redundancies ahead? unpacking the far right, Phil Hogan, Israeli settlements, rise in homelessness, the Miami showband massacre, Ministers demanding paintings, tax avoidance of US companies, profit rise for gambling outlets, Sarah McInerney, and much more.

This week we’re joined by Irish journalist in Sweden, Philip O’Connor and Sonia Balagopalan, mathematician & socialist to discuss: Golfgate, far right protests & Una McGurk, COVID in Sweden, US elections, the perceptions poll, lobbying power, homes to buy drop but rental properties increase, AirBnB, Troubles compensation and Bank of Ireland job losses.

This week we’re joined by Senator Lynn Boylan (Sinn Fein) & Clare O’Connor (ICHH) to discuss: Varadkar’s dog whistle to white middle class males, meat plants & workers’ rights, hospital waiting lists, evictions & homeless deaths, back to school and manipulating test results for the rich, and much more

This week Clare O Connor fills in for Dave Gibney to discuss the death of John Hume : Covid Meat Factories and lockdown: O Malley Report: Debenhams strike: Far Right Organising and more

This week we discuss: Greens vote against govt; Homeless deaths; PUP scandal; Sunil Sharpe; Tampon ads banned; Order of business vote in Dail; Successful Climate Case; Ryanair challenging the state; No travel restrictions/checks and a COVID spike; Marc McSharry attacks public sector workers; and much more.

This week we discuss: the fiscal stimulus package, deferring the minimum wage increase, super junior ministers paid more than Prime Ministers of Spain and Italy, reopening schools, staycation tax incentives, Debenhams, Green Party developments and much more… and we’re joined by Jean O’Dowd, regional officer for Unite the Union.

This week Sean Byers and Mel Corry from Trademark Belfast review the news and we speak to Dunnes Stores Anti-Apartheid striker and legend Karen Gearon on the 36th anniversary of the strike about Debenhams, Palestine, racism in Ireland and Black Lives Matters (interview at 47:40). Mel and Sean discuss Apple Tax, Coronavirus a second wave and travel restrictions, Government (Eamonn Ryan) asleep at t...

This week we’re joined by the world’s only Professor of Green Political Economy, John Barry, to discuss: Jack Charlton, splits in the Green Party, homophobia and fascists on the rise, Covid bailouts and a second wave (Open the pubs, then close the airports?), Health waiting lists, drink driving and accountability, and much more.

This week we discuss employers milking the state during/after COVID, the Bobby Storey funeral, Barry Cowan drink driving v Clare Daly not drink driving, Fianna Fail TDs demanding a seat at cabinet 'for their constituents', Senator Eileen Flynn's inspirational speech, Irish Water spending billions to redirect the Shannon river for datacentres and sexism in the Green Party? And much more.  We w...

Special discussion in conjunction with the Trade Union Left Forum about last week’s High Court ruling striking down sectoral employment orders for electrical contractors and threatening trade union rights in Ireland. Joining us on the show is Brian Nolan (Connect), Muireann Dalton (Mandate and former Dunnes Stores worker) and Conor McCabe (Labour historian, author and union activist).

This week we’re joined by Emma Clancy, editor of irishbroadleft.com to discuss some of the big issues in the news, including the formation of the new government, the Green Party aligning with the right, Ryanair seeking to risk COVID infections; right-wing judges striking down workers’ rights, Debenhams protests at Bank of Ireland; racism in Ireland; and much more.

This week Joan Collins TD, Conor McCabe and Ciaran Campbell discuss the Programme for Government, the Green Party vote, the inspiring Traveller women who sent their abuser to prison, the Irish #MeToo moment and abuse of Irish women, a new left-wing party for Ireland (Right2Change), the abandonment of the Right2Water referendum, trouble in Aer Lingus, racism in Ireland, the UK & soldiers seekin...

Conor McCabe, Clare O'Connor and Emma Clancy join Dave Gibney in reviewing the Programme for Government 2020. Climate change, Palestine, a Green New Deal, transport, housing, workers' rights, aviation, water, Mercosur, healthcare, the economy and public sector pay are all discussed.

A left review of the news and the Sunday papers with Brian Forbes (Mandate National Coordinator), Michelle Byrne (Activist) and Mel Corry (TradeMark Belfast). This week we discuss reopening the economy at workers expense, COVID and excess deaths, schools as childcare facilities, who is using most of our water, Green Party “trots”, social welfare fraud and protecting memorials to fascists and slave...

This week in the news: Black Lives Matter protests, swap your pension for a house, abortion in the North, government formation talks, Irish Water lobbying, low pay – particularly for women, and the reopening of the economy, among other stories.

This weeks review of the weekend newspapers with Green Party Councillor Lorna Bogue includes Supermacs boss Pat McDonagh attacking the €350 COVID payment, George Floyd's death and the US riots, the increase in retirement age, government formation and the Green Party leadership debate.