Ciara Kelly
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347 appearances
15 recordings
4 series
first heard May 2026
last heard 14 Jun
Ciara Kelly’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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And Mahan McCann, a philosophy PhD researcher, is one of them.
Mahan was a gold star atheist when he got baptised into the Catholic Church last year.
Well, yeah, I mean, there are some outlets for right-leaning students here in Ireland.
So the Birkian, for example, it's an online student journal.
They appear to publish work of kind of conservative, maybe libertarian bent, pieces that might not have a place in the University Times or other campus publications.
But Theo MacDonald is a recent graduate of DCU, and he says in general, Irish college campuses can be tricky places for conservative students.
Now, new research has found that humans, it appears, prefer to turn left or walk anti-clockwise.
OK, the team here clearly looking for any excuse to play a clip from Zoolander on a Friday.
Brendan Kelly is a professor of psychiatry at Trinity College, Dublin, and he joins me now to try and break down this strange phenomenon.
And I have to say, Brendan, it is one of those phenomenon.
As soon as I read about it this morning, I could feel myself and my whole body just leaning to the left and trying to figure out as I walked into the kitchen this morning, was I being pulled in a certain direction?
And Ciara, you were being pulled in a certain direction.
You were almost certainly being pulled to the left because this new research confirms what was already kind of known, which is humans have a tendency to turn left or to walk counterclockwise.
And they studied this in Spain.
They studied it in Japan, where they drive on different sides of the road.
They studied it in adults.
They studied it in children.
And it is a very consistent tendency, particularly in crowds.
We want to go left and our bodies will pull us left if we try to move against it.
So how strong is the effect, Brendan?
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