Elaine Loughlin
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first heard Jun 2026
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I think it's definitely something that the opposition is going to pursue because it dominated the first week of the Dáil with both the Taoiseach and Minister Helen McEntee, of course, was Justice Minister at a time when a lot of these issues were happening within the Gardaí.
And both the Taoiseach and the minister, it has to be said, rightly came out and said they're precluded from speaking about a lot of this because the legislation prevents them.
And that was it's relatively new legislation.
It was established and passed in order to protect the whistleblowers who, you know, we saw at the very centre of this programme this week.
And they certainly do not feel like they were protected.
and then in the Dáil I think there were some answers given by Helen McEntee around what she may or may not have been aware of and we know that two of the whistleblowers who were actually in that protected disclosures unit were responsible for handling these and were so concerned that they themselves went on to make protected disclosures they were effectively moved out and new people put in there so there was a lot of questioning around that
Helen McEntee at one stage said her understanding of it was that this was actually going to move from a part-time unit to a full-time unit, so it was a bolstering of the unit.
And then when she was pressed again, she said that Drew Harris, the then Garda Commissioner,
didn't really make her aware of the mechanics or the nitty gritty, the full details of the changes.
So I think even there, the slight difference in answers given, I think that's certainly a line that the opposition will be pursuing, but also a lot of other issues.
to be.
But I think while we are now focusing on Macklemore versus Ed Sheeran, I think at the heart of this has to be, as Adrian pointed out, Robert Kraft and a small number of billionaires who do have control in the background over many sports stars and what they say.
now Ed Sheeran and what potentially he says or his actions, what other musicians say, what politicians say, because I know Kraft is linked as well to the Trump administration now, even though he was a strong supporter financially of the Democrats, especially when Obama was in power and his own wife, I think 33 years his junior, was appointed to the... No judgement.
No judgement.
Love is love.
Was appointed to the board of the Kennedy Center when Trump came into power.
So you have all these strings being pulled in the background by not just Kraft, but a few very powerful billionaires that do not get the same media attention as Ed Sheeran, but perhaps are far more concerning because of the level of censorship
can control a narrative.
And we haven't mentioned Gaza in this yet.
We haven't mentioned the word genocide.
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