Ciara Kelly
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347 appearances
15 recordings
4 series
first heard May 2026
last heard 14 Jun
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And yet we have still seen the same types of incidents and the same type of response and the same type of protests, riots, violence here, Paul.
Okay, look, unfortunately, I think we could have gone longer in that conversation, but I'm conscious of time here.
I'm going to have to leave it there for now.
Louise O'Reilly and Paul Hosford and Pat Rabbit, thanks so much for coming in to us to look at the newspapers.
Good morning Ciara.
I know I think so too because yeah as you said in the past we've kind of accepted this notion that well if we look at Ireland that we're generally becoming more progressive, more secular, more liberal with each generation but there does appear to be somewhat of a reversal of course happening or at least a questioning of those progressive ideas that we had once accepted you know as the common undergraduate diet along with
cheap beer and wherever you can get a slice of toast.
So I took a wander down to Trinity to speak to students myself and find out even anecdotally if they're feeling a shift rightwards from left.
So there isn't much data when it comes to Irish university students specifically, but we can look to Europe and there is a growing body of evidence there supporting the idea.
And even just our neighbours in the UK, there was a recent study, this will be shocking to you now, it showed that almost half of Britain's university students support bringing back capital punishment for the most serious of crimes.
While at Cambridge, a women's society was set up last year to much media fanfare in a pushback against the university's trans-inclusive policies.
Now, that said, young men are more likely to subscribe to conservatism than young women are.
Rory Costolo is an associate professor at the Department of Politics at the University of Limerick.
What does that mean for the birth rate?
I know.
And it's really unusual because normally generations will move in a similar direction and they'll find counterpoint with those perhaps before them or after them.
But there's now a reported 30 point difference in terms of where young men and young women land on the political spectrum.
And it's not just that young men are leaning more right politically.
They also appear to be reverting to more conservative values and more traditional ways of living, let's say.
Religion is finding new ground among young men.
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