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In The News is a podcast from The Irish Times that takes a close look at the stories that matter, in Ireland and around the world. Hosted by Bernice Harrison. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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The Empire Film Podcast is the official podcast of Empire, the world's biggest and best movie magazine. We bring you all the latest movie news and nonsense, as well as reviews of the week's new films, an assortment of irreverent, film-related chat and interviews with some of Hollywood's best and brightest. New episodes every Friday. For our famous deep dives into specific movies, subscribe to the Empire Spoiler Special Podcast at https://empire.supportingcast.fm/ Love TV? Subscribe to our si ...
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In this podcast, philosopher and cognitive scientist Dr. Mark M. James talks to guests about the intersection between cognitive science, culture, health, well-being, technology and design. The podcast is hosted in association with the Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology, Japan.
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Behind the scenes of hit Netflix documentary 'The Deepest Breath' with Irish director Laura McGann
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Earlier this Summer, a Netflix documentary, all about the hidden world of freediving, catapulted the sport in front of a global audience. The Deepest Breath, tells the story of Alessia Zecchini, a champion freediver from Italy and Stephen Keenan, an expert safety diver from Glasnevin in Dublin. It follows them as they rise separately through the ra…
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#583 — Mike Birgbiglia, Brian Duffield
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This week's episode of the Empire Podcast sees comedian, actor, writer, director and future King of England, Mike Birbiglia, drop by the podbooth to have an extended, but very funny, natter with Chris Hewitt about Birbiglia's one-man show, The Old Man And The Pool, which is on now at the Wyndham's Theatre in London. They talk about that, about Mike…
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Sally Hayden: A 'naval blockade' won't solve the crisis in the Mediterranean
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To understand the unfolding crisis on the Italian island of Lampedusa, where a state of emergency has been declared as 7,000 migrants arrived on boats within just 48 hours, it’s crucial to look across the short stretch of the Mediterranean to Tunisia. Sally Hayden, who has been reporting on the migrant crisis and the EU’s response to it, explains i…
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Prasanna Puwanarajah, Director of 'Ballywalter'
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In this Film Ireland podcast, Gemma Creagh talks to Prasanna Puwanarajah, Director of Ballywalter.A life affirming story about the unexpected connections that can change the course of our lives. Eileen (Seána Kerslake) is a caustic, unrepentant University drop-out whose dreams of a successful life in London have fallen by the wayside. Back at home …
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Why did spinal surgeries on children fail in one Dublin hospital?
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Children suffering from spina bifida have been let down by an under-resourced healthcare system for years. This week’s news that there are now serious concerns over the safety of surgery performed on children with the condition at Temple Street children’s hospital will only deepen the anxiety and frustration of children and their families left wait…
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Can Patrick Kielty save The Late Late Show?
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Expectations were high for the start of the 61st season of The Late Late Show, and new host Patrick Kielty delivered on some of them: the comedian delivered a funny monologue and generally seemed comfortable in his new role. But some of the programme’s old problems remained. On today’s In the News podcast, Irish Times writer, editor and podcaster H…
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Episode 42: Booze doesn't affect me (with Fiona Ridgewell)
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Join the Patreon for early access to episodes with no ads, as well as our other weekly podcast Get to the EXTRA Good Stuff, bonus video material and more! https://www.patreon.com/GetToTheGoodStuffwithJackSkipper This week the very funny Fiona Ridgewell explains why she shouldn't be driving... Or leaving the house. Follow Fiona on Instagram @fiona_r…
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Can this plan make Dublin’s north inner city safer?
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The hiring of 'community safety wardens' to patrol Dublin’s north inner city was just one of the 50 actions contained in the Government’s latest plan for the area. But Irish Times Dublin editor Olivia Kelly explains why these wardens' ability to make the community safer will likely be limited. Meanwhile Peter Evans, a warden in Derry, explains how …
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Bryony Dunne, Director/Co-Writer of 'Surrender Your Horns'
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In this Film Ireland podcast, Gemma Creagh talks to Bryony Dunne about her film Surrender Your Horns.Surrender Your Horns is a feature film that starts with a lonesome Irish man snorting a substance of powdered horn, who then undergoes a bestial metamorphosis. The work combines documentary footage with absurdist performances of unicorn nightclubber…
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They say you should never invite a vampire into your home, because then they can come and go as they please, without even stopping to do the dishes. But what if you invite the director of a vampire movie into your podcast? Well, frankly, Pablo Larrain, the brilliant Chilean director of Jackie, No, and Spencer is welcome to drop into the podbooth an…
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Too much Tubridy: What Irish teenagers think of the news
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This weekend, for the first time, the content of The Irish Times Magazine will be written entirely by teenagers. The six volunteers tackle subjects including the pitfalls of Tiktok, why many young women drop out of sport and what it is like to be a wheelchair user. One of their mentors for the project was Patrick Freyne, who recorded a conversation…
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The man sending 'suicide kits' to customers in Ireland
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Gardai have confirmed that a poisonous substance sold by an online seller in Canada, was posted to a number of people in Ireland. The man accused of selling these so called ‘suicide kits’ is Kenneth Law, a 57 year old Canadian chef. Law is currently in police custody, charged with 14 counts of counselling and aiding suicide in the region of Ontario…
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'Hope has died' - have victims of the Troubles been betrayed?
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In 1982, Emmett McConomy’s brother, 11-year-old Stephen, was playing in the street near their home in Derry. A shot fired by a British soldier from an armoured car hit him in the back of the head; he died from his injuries days later. Emmett tells In the News about his family’s decades-long fight for the truth about what happened to the child and h…
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#581 (live from the London Podcast Festival) — Celine Song, Daniel Pemberton
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This week's Empire Podcast is a little late, folks, for which we apologise. But we have an exceptionally good excuse — we didn't actually record it until Saturday night, when Chris Hewitt, Helen O'Hara, James Dyer, and Ben Travis took to the stage of Kings Place's Hall One, in front of a crowd of around 350 loyal listeners, as part of this year's L…
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#10 - Mark is interviewed by Stephen about digital hugs and digital tact.
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This episode of the podcast is a little different and is a co-production between Connectomics, and Stephen Estelle's Estelle Ingenuity podcast. This time Stephen sits in the interviewer's chair and Mark is the interviewee. Stephen wanted to talk to Mark about a new paper of his that got some publicity online. The paper was called Do Digital Hugs Wo…
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Episode 41: Big Dads and Fat Nans (with Markus Birdman)
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Burning Man: how bad did it get? One Irish attendee tells his story
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Co Laois man Brendon Deacy (58) arrived at the Burning Man festival in the northern Nevada desert prepared for heat and dust – not the heavy rain that fell on the last weekend of the nine-day counterculture jamboree. The artist and NCAD lecturer tells In the News about arriving in the camper van with his four grown-up children, how the festival liv…
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DJ Nick Luscombe, OIST Podcaster in Residence, explores the Theoretical Sciences Visiting Program (TSVP)
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DJ Nick Luscombe, OIST Podcaster in Residence, checks out OIST's Theoretical Sciences Visiting Program (TSVP). In this episode, he talks to Dr. Jonas Fischer, TSVP Academic Coordinator, and Prof. Simone Pigolotti to learn more about the program. He also interviews the guest researchers visiting OIST as part of the program and asks them about their …
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Can Ireland triumph at the Rugby World Cup?
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Ireland has a poor history in Rugby World Cup competitions but this year just might be different. Entering the tournament in France as the number one team in the world is no guarantee of anything – and the big question is whether Andy Farrell’s team can do what previous Ireland teams have never managed; progress beyond the quarter final. That’s if …
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Chinese economic growth is faltering. The biggest drag on the economy is the tanking property market, with prices falling and developers defaulting. Domestic demand is dropping as nervous consumers opt to save rather than spend. That’s bad news too for the vital manufacturing sector. Add double-digit youth unemployment and the problems are piling u…
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Will the Kinahans ever face justice in Ireland?
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The net is closing in on members of the Kinahan Cartel. An investigation into the organised crime gang has been completed by An Garda Síochána and a file has been sent to the Director of Public Prosecutions. The focus of their investigation is the activities of cartel leaders Christy Kinahan and his two sons Daniel Kinahan and Christopher Kinahan J…
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Producer Kathryn Lennon and Executive Producer James Mitchell of Hidden Assets
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In this Film Ireland podcast, Gemma Creagh talks to ‘Hidden Assets’ Series Producer Kathryn Lennon and Executive Producer James Mitchell.Hidden Assets returns to our screens this Autumn with a six-part second season, set between Limerick and Antwerp, Belgium. Hidden Assets airs on Sunday September 3rd for 6 consecutive weeks at 9.30pm on RTÉ One an…
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This week's Empire Podcast sees the arrival of Chris Hewitt's pre-beloved The Equalizer 3, and that film's director, the delightfully sweary Antoine Fuqua, joins Chris to talk about that film, about the challenges of getting Denzel Washington to ride a horse (not for this film), and ultra-violence on the big screen. With blood and gore already cove…
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Fatal journeys: why road safety is going in the wrong direction
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It’s been a week of tragedy on Irish roads. Nine people lost their lives in just six days prompting an outpouring of grief, not only in the communities of those who died but across the country. It’s been a week also when the Road Safety Authority released its figures for road deaths for the year so far and, as Irish Times reporter Mark Hilliard tel…
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Unwanted kiss: why Spanish women say Luis Rubiales has to go
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Spanish football federation chief Luis Rubiales spoiled the afterparty for Spain's Women's World Cup-winning team, first by giving one of the players, Jenni Hermoso, an unwanted kiss, and then by refusing to accept the consequences. As Rubiales clings to his job, the controversy has embarrassed Spain's football establishment, incensed Spanish women…
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When it comes to prices there’s no going back, Conor Pope, Irish Times consumer affairs expert and Pricewatch columnist tells In the News. Energy companies are promising some sort of reduction, not as yet revealed; supermarkets say they have dropped prices – but food inflation is still running well into double figures; and it’s a hard time to be bo…
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Episode 40: Dressing up for the toilet. Catching up from Edinburgh 2...
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Australia mushroom poisoning: how a family lunch ended in tragedy
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In late July, four relatives attended a family lunch at the home of Erin Patterson, a 48 year-old mother of two from Leongatha in Australia. Within days of the lunch, three of the guests were dead, with a fourth fighting for his life in hospital, where he remains today. A beef wellington that was served for lunch on the day is suspected to have con…
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#579 — Harris Dickinson, Nick Lieberman, Juel Taylor
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Another Empire Podcast, another trio of terrific guests. The wonderful young British actor Harris Dickinson joins us once again, and tells Chris Hewitt all about his new movie, Scrapper, and his cinema-going preferences (24:24 - 39:20). Then Sophie Butcher Zooms in for a chat with Theater Camp (yes, that's the American spelling; no, we're not happy…
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Deaths at the Youghal Ironman: what went wrong?
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Since the announcement of the deaths of two men – Meath native Brendan Wall (45) and Canadian Ivan Chittenden (64), during the swimming stage of the Youghal Ironman – there have been many reports from eyewitnesses and participants about the choppy conditions all 2,000-plus competitors faced. A key question is why the event was permitted to go ahead…
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Tony Devlin, Director and Co-writer of 'The Glenarma Tapes'
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Ahead of its screening at this year’s FrightFest, Gemma Creagh talks to Tony Devlin, Director and Co-writer of The Glenarma Tapes.In the spring of 2020, five art students and two lecturers went missing in a remote forest in Ireland. What happened to them has remained unknown – until now. Their last movements are pieced together from found footage r…
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After a messy split, what now for Ryan Tubridy and RTÉ?
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Ryan Tubridy was nearing a return to the RTÉ airwaves, but it all fell apart in spectacular fashion last week after Mr Tubridy issued a statement that, in the eyes of RTÉ head Kevin Bakhurst, reopened some barely-healed wounds. Now there is a lot of figuring out to do. What will Ryan do next? How will RTÉ recover from this crisis? And could a recon…
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In April, it was announced that Trinity College Dublin would 'dename' its Berkeley Library, because of the links to slavery of its current namesake, the 18th century philosopher George Berkeley. The news sparked renewed debate about when it is right to change the historic name of a building or institution, with Irish Times columnist Fintan O'Toole …
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Episode 39: Dream realistic! Catching up from Edinburgh
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Ireland is awash with cocaine, but how does it get into the country? Crime and Security correspondent Conor Gallagher explains the different methods used by gangs to import the drug into Ireland and what steps are taken by authorities to intercept it. Presented by Conor Pope, produced by Suzanne Brennan. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for m…
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#578 — Alex Winter, Angel Manuel Soto, Phil Lord & Chris Miller
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Well, look at that: just in time for the Women's World Cup final this weekend, the Empire Podcast scores a hat-trick of lovely guests. (Well, four actually, which is even better!) Chris Hewitt may be off this week, but he continues to haunt the podcast by conducting two of those interviews, a chat about the impact of YouTube with Alex Winter, forme…
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Is Trump going to the big house or back to The White House?
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For the fourth time in as many months, former U.S. president Donald Trump is facing a criminal indictment. The indictment, handed down by the Fulton county district attorney on Monday, charges Trump and 18 others, including his former White House chief of staff, Mark Meadows, and lawyer Rudy Giuliani, for their efforts to overturn the 2020 U.S. pre…
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Laura McGann, Writer/Director of 'The Deepest Breath'
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In this Film Ireland podcast Gemma Creagh talks to Laura McGann about her film The Deepest Breath.The Deepest Breath follows champion freediver Alessia Zecchini, who fell in love with the sport as a child growing up in Italy, astounding coaches with her raw talent and determination in pool swims and open water contests before she was even old enoug…
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Could Annie McCarrick's disappearance finally be solved?
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Earlier this year, the case of Annie McCarrick’s disappearance was upgraded to a murder inquiry. In this episode, Conor Lally tells Bernice Harrison what prompted this development and whether the 30 year-old investigation could be significantly advanced or even solved. This episode was originally published in May 2023. Hosted on Acast. See acast.co…
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Is social media making teenagers miserable?
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Do teenagers today have it tougher than previous generations? In terms of how well they can develop emotionally and socially, the answer is yes, says Dr Colman Noctor, a psychotherapist who works with adolescents. He tells Irish Times journalist Jen Hogan about how the pandemic years have robbed young people of crucial opportunities for social deve…
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Episode 38: A Collage of Ham (with Joe Foster)
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What's behind the huge drop in Irish gun crime?
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Something strange is happening in the Irish gangland scene. After years of escalating violence, gun crime across the country has now reached record lows. What's behind the drop and will it last? Crime and Security editor Conor Lally reports. Hosted by Aideen Finnegan. This episode was originally published in March 2023. Hosted on Acast. See acast.c…
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#577 — Gal Gadot & Alia Bhatt, Justin Simien
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This week's Empire Podcast sees Gal Gadot and Alia Bhatt, stars of the new Netflix blockbuster Heart Of Stone, sit down for a lovely chat with Amon Warmann, in which they talk about the dangers of A.I., and Gadot's recent cameo in a major blockbuster. No, not that one. No, not that one either. Amon then hangs around for the episode's other intervie…
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