This week we discuss the financial troubles of two titans of the property sector, the Peter McVerry Trust and Evergrande.
https://www.reddit.com/media?url=https%3A%2F%2Fi.redd.it%2Firish-personal-finance-flowchart-v2-1-v0-sx1ensn284c91.jpg%3Fs%3D8b79a0fb56bd5bb031b966ce89aeec813d3aa353
Let's have a closer look at SF's new housing submission; the PR problem of tourists being brutalised by criminals; and financial literacy in the Irish population.
https://www.tickettailor.com/events/freespeechireland/979702
https://www.irishtimes.com/opinion/2023/08/09/edge-of-misogyny-in-criticism-of-helen-mcentee-is-unmistakable/
https://www.sinnfein.ie/files/2023/EOB_PRS_submission1.pdf
Gary has returned from his travels and climate change is the agenda for this week.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7W33HRc1A6c
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0qPwfICdqXQ
The hate crime bill has been pushed back after an unexpected backlash, but it's far from dead; RTE decide respectable people don't need to be asked to provide evidence; and the safe access zone bill begins its march through the Oireachtas.
A key plank of the Government's housing policy hasn't worked for the last 11 months, the end (maybe) of affirmative action in America; and the polls show both the government and RTE are in a spot of bother.
Gary Kavanagh sits down with Bryan Fanning, Professor of Migration and Social Policy at UCD, to discuss the professor's latest book, Public Morality and the Culture Wars; immigration; LGBT rights; abortion; and coercive public morality.
https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B0BHSWHDNJ/ref=dbs_a_def_rwt_hsch_vapi_tkin_p1_i0
The hate speech bill was debated in the Seanad this week, and despite the lack of media attention the debate demonstrated the full value of the Seanad.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rj0Tj8dnrYw
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/seanad/2023-06-13/10/#spk_78
https://twitter.com/griptmedia/status/1669275401397456898
https://www.lawlibrary.ie/bar-reviews/the-bar-review-june-2023/ - Page 100 for piece on hate crime bill.
A transgender cyclist is currently 300km ahead of their nearest rival in a 2500km race taking place on the west coast; and excise increases are mostly due to the government wanting you to be miserable.
Welcome to the Official TAW ride in Ireland - TransAtlanticWay
A new RedC poll shows the vast majority of people believe Ireland has taken in too many refugees, but tells us very little about what people actually think; and the NCCA consults with toddlers.
https://ncca.ie/media/6220/consultationreport.pdf
https://ereader.businesspost.ie/e-reader/edition-1810/14/index.html
FG TDs refusing to run are 'a natural event'; SF becomes ever more respectable; asking the President to stop the hate speech bill is deeply unwise; and Alcohol Action Ireland are coming for non-alcoholic beers.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yZT-wVnFn60
New polling shows nearly 50% of the country feels their quality of living has declined over the last 12 months; Simon Harris has some thoughts on his political opponents; and FG continue to fall in opinion polls.
https://www.redcresearch.ie/consumer-sentiment-remains-decidedly-downbeat/
The Hate Speech Bill has cleared the Dail with 110 TDs voting in support of the bill, 14 against; the President has some thoughts on economic growth; and the abortion review has some interesting methodological issues.
Plans to put labelling requirements on wine could see producers refuse to sell in Ireland; a Government report gives the wrong results and has to be redone to get the right one; and the CSO's new report on sexual violence has some unusual results.
Germany shuts down its last nuclear reactors as the green movement cheers; a bad week for journalism; and the government has a new, almost certainly unconstitutional, way of dealing with those filthy people trying to make money in the property market.
A reminder of the futility of our complaints; modern day book burnings akin to the Nazis, or so they say; and the latest opinion poll.
https://gript.ie/significant-methodological-issues-with-recent-study-on-non-religious-teachers-fears/
Gript gets its knuckles rapped in a Journal fact-check; the Indo puts the knife into the TD formally known as a member of the Green Party; and Gary asks how many babies Labour politicians would eat in exchange for a ministerial pension.
https://www.thejournal.ie/what-did-varadkar-say-about-transgender-prisoners-6027642-Mar2023/
We've seen the President, the Taoiseach, and the Tánaiste all speak out against a letter which highlighted concerns about the teaching of gender theory to young children, but it's well past time we started to question the motives of the organisations pushing for children to be indoctrinated into these theories.
https://www.iglyo.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/IGLYO_v3-1.pdf
https://gript.ie/rte-makes-false-claim-about-social-contagion-factor-in-trans-identification-being-debunked/
We're not saying to burn down your house for the insurance money, we're just saying you'd probably get away with it.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kz_lzEhyryY
El Salvador brutalises criminals and sees crime fall dramatically; tidy towns are Ireland's shield against fascism; and NPHET's decisions may not have been entirely scientific.
https://data.oireachtas.ie/ie/oireachtas/debateRecord/joint_committee_on_children_equality_disability_integration_and_youth/2023-02-21/debate/mul@/main.pdf
https://www.independent.ie/irish-news/health/school-closures-and-nursing-home-visitor-bans-were-inhumane-nphet-member-breaks-ranks-on-our-covid-response-42356712.html
https://www.independent.ie/regionals/dublin/dublin-news/explainer-the-covid-pandemic-is-over-so-why-are-more-people-dying-42357365.html
Media trust in Ireland is between 6% and 52% depending on who you ask; the new government-backed survey on conversion therapy is a total mess; and Gary defends Bowdlerisation as Roald Dahl gets a modern rework.
https://gript.ie/the-misleading-coverage-of-trinitys-conversion-therapy-report/
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