Dearbhail McDonald
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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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and more recently the Department of Health and he is now looking after how we can maybe transform the city.
Could we be another Notre Dame?
Could we make Dublin a fair city again?
I can see the hats, the merch.
And there was another point that Emma Ryan did that piece in the Sindo on Robert Watt.
Emma Hart there was an interesting line where he also said we should be replacing annual budgets with multi-annual budgets over three years and of course you hear everyone from health and education to local government crying out for that
Yes.
And instead of the annual kind of, you know, that they can't essentially plan without it.
Cian Gallagher whilst Cian goes off to copyright his make O'Connell Street great again merchandise you picked out a piece in the Sunday Independent a floozy a tart and indecent exposure are we too anarchic to take public art seriously?
See also bridges and other landmarks.
It always amuses me when people point to France and to Paris and all of that.
You kind of forget that the reason why you have those broad streets was actually introduced to prevent riots and protests.
And it's kind of interesting because one of the things, maybe the difference between Dublin and other European cities, one of our listeners saying, you know, the area around O'Connell Street has been hollowed out by huge concentrations of hotels.
There are simply less people living permanently in the area.
And that obviously contributes to the quality of a
of a city.
Cailin, last night, someone facing serious charges in the non-jury special criminal court had to represent themselves in a bail application because of the ongoing criminal legal aid strike, which is not unique to Ireland.
We've seen it on the north of this island.
We've seen it in the UK.
There's quite a lot of commentary in the papers, including by some who are saying, you know, the government around Jim McCallan's onto a winner here, but others saying, well, actually, this is about the people who need legal representation.
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