Dearbhail McDonald
speaker
1,266 appearances
11 recordings
1 series
first heard Apr 2026
last heard 13 Sep
Dearbhail McDonald’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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Good morning.
You're all very welcome.
Derval MacDonald with you this weekend.
Our panel have been busy picking the best and the rest from this morning's papers.
But before I introduce them to you, let's have a quick look at what is making today's headlines.
Patients stuck in hospital for 400 days in backlog.
That's the lead story for the Sunday Independent, which reports that thousands of patients...
are languishing in hospitals while they wait for spaces in nursing homes, rehab centres or for home help.
Wayne O'Connor, citing figures supplied to Labour Health spokesperson Mary Sherlock, writes that last Friday marked the 100th day in a row that 500 people or more were waiting to be brought from hospital to another care setting capable of meeting their needs.
The paper's off lead highlights claims by some criminal lawyers that they are being pressured by other colleagues to withdraw their support for the state's new legal aid scheme.
And in what looks like what some of our learned friends might call a judicious leak, that story is replicated across a number of titles, including the Sunday Times, which leads with a report by John Mooney on the ongoing guard investigation into the car bomb discovery.
And in fact, that investigation itself has been impacted by the strike by criminal legal aid lawyers.
Last night, a 44-year-old man appeared in the special criminal court charged in connection with the guard investigation.
Simon O'Donovan, with an address at Sperran Road in Dublin 12, was charged with being in possession of explosive substances.
But during the hearing, a solicitor, Dara Macken of Phoenix Law, attended the court hearing but told the judges that he wasn't involved.
in a position to assist the accused man who wanted Mr Macken to represent him because of the ongoing strike.
And this resulted in the accused man representing himself in his own bail application, which was rejected by the court.
And there is much commentary and analysis on that broader criminal legal aid strike and how it's impacting the courts right across today's newspapers.
The Business Post carries an illuminating column by Matt Cooper on what it describes as the white-collar war being waged by Ministers Jim O'Callaghan and Jennifer Carol MacNeill against lawyers and doctors, those, which Matt Cooper notes, who might have been considered the Ministers to be their allies.
But it's the budget which forms the lead for the Post, which reports that Ministers are bracing for the toughest budget in years amid fears that public dissatisfaction could once again erupt in the autumn.
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