Daniel McConnell

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3,044 appearances 23 recordings 4 series first heard Dec 2025 last heard 3d ago

Daniel McConnell’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.

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Recordings per month over the last 12 months — 23 in all, peaking in Jun 2026 with 6.

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The Business Post Podcast · Ep 26: James Browne on housing targets, 'risk averse' banks and putting manners on local authorities · 3 Sep 2026 podcast

And to give a backdrop to this, so I was in London la for I was supposed to go over and do a gig with Simon Harris for the Ireland Funds. voice-verified

It was a business post Ireland Funds gig, and Simon Harris was supposed to be the minister of the day. voice-verified

It was in Clement Weather. voice-verified

But in Clement Weather stopped him out, so the minister on the ground in London just was James Brown. voice-verified

So they in fairness he agreed to to step in and and do the gig for us. voice-verified

Which we were grateful for. voice-verified

And y you know, you're always nervous that if you're s if you sell an event on, say, one person and if it's not something else it might it m you know, you might be concerned. voice-verified

But I have to say he gave very good value for money that morning. voice-verified

He he was in a room voice-verified

I'd say probably quite a number of people like you who probably didn't know an awful lot about 'em were a bit maybe slightly Dayton Thomas, you know voice-verified

The mood around housing wasn't all that particularly good. voice-verified

But by God, did he did he give a reasonable account of himself? voice-verified

You know, he spoke plainly about, you know, decision to kind of get rid of bed sits was a bad idea because you'd nothing to replace them with. voice-verified

You know, the idea of trying to unlock that supply difficulty of, you know, making sure that you can actually get things built. voice-verified

You know, really critical about the sort of NIMBYism type culture of of objecting to stuff, even when you live hundreds of miles away from things. voice-verified

He basically said, like, at a time of national crisis, you voice-verified

You you need to suspend kind of um these sort of things. voice-verified

And like not afraid voice-verified

almost to have the courage of his convictions. voice-verified

I still think it's too early to to adjudge. voice-verified

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