Carl Kinsella

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7,832 appearances 24 recordings 3 series first heard Feb 2026 last heard 3d ago

Carl Kinsella’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.

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Catch Up with Louise McSharry · News Catch-Up: Ed Sheeran, Maternity Leave for TDs and the Far Right in Germany · 22 Sep 2026 podcast

just opened him up to even further accusations of people asking, well, like, why don't you see the people of Gaza as worthy of standing up for? voice-verified

And it just all of it reflects so poorly on him. voice-verified

He has done virtually nothing to mitigate how poorly it reflects on him. voice-verified

And it it does seem to me like this is the kind of thing that has potentially voice-verified

affected his reputation forever, you know? voice-verified

Yes. voice-verified

Yeah, so the core issue at play here is that the Aractus, i.e., the the Joint Houses of Parliament of Ireland, don't seem to have any system in place whereby um a T D or a Senator can uh you know excuse themselves from work by maternity leave. voice-verified

It doesn't seem to be in the system, or at least it certainly wasn't in the system in late twenty twenty four, which is when Holly Cairns first embarked on maternity leave. voice-verified

But no, we know that it is still it's still voice-verified

Still not within the system. voice-verified

So essentially what Holly Cairns had to do, first of all, because she wasn't able to flag herself as up on maternity leave, she continued to receive some travel and accommodation allowance that's given to TDs. voice-verified

That is something that she repaid as soon as she found out that there was a discrepancy there. voice-verified

But beyond that, she also had to get a six cert from a doctor, uh, you know, in lieu of voice-verified

Of maternity leave being accepted as a reason for being absent through the system. voice-verified

Instead, she had to sort of do it almost as if she was sick. voice-verified

So, I mean, first and foremost, this is like really antiquated and this is a system that badly needs to be updated. voice-verified

Um, but second of all, this is kind of snowballed into a different thing that the Irish Times this week reported in a their framing was quite. voice-verified

Leading is how I would describe it, in that what you have is, and Holly Cairns has pointed this out on her own social media. voice-verified

What you have is a headline that is Holly Cairns repays overpayment of 8,500 euro of expenses. voice-verified

And then what happens when if you're not an Irish Times subscriber and you click that link, you're then taken to a paywall. voice-verified

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