Elaine Loughlin
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72 appearances
2 recordings
1 series
first heard Jun 2026
last heard 3d ago
Elaine Loughlin’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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And that is exactly what Kraft says.
wants to happen and
Yeah.
Which is
Yeah, and he could frame it in the sense of America is meant to be the land of free speech.
And whether you agree or disagree with what Macklemore said, he should have the right to speak out.
And, you know, supporting artists to be able to express their views and opinions could have been how Ed Sheeran framed that.
he didn't.
But as Adrian said, there are links there to craft.
And perhaps that was also a factor in the background.
Yeah, I think this is constantly on both sides of the border, it has to be said, is constantly bubbling under the surface.
And immediately after that happened,
I was obviously in Leinster House this week and politicians up to cabinet level were quite worried that this might spill over onto the streets of Dublin.
And we did have, it has to be said, quite a small protest outside Leinster House this week.
Thankfully went off peacefully and people are entitled to protest and voice their concerns and disgruntlement.
It's thankfully we do live in a democracy.
But I think when communities do feel disenfranchised with the political system and perhaps feel like they've been left behind, that it can sometimes allow bad actors to come in and perhaps sway public opinion, as we've seen in Northern Ireland.
into rioting, into violent behaviour and, you know, perpetuate these, what are falsehoods about people who've come to our country, about immigrants who are, you know, keeping the, we'll talk about the health service later in this discussion, but who are keeping the health service afloat, who are doing a lot of jobs that we wouldn't have people to fill if we didn't have people coming with skills and talents to this country.
But
a different narrative around that cohort is put forward.
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