Jack Horgan-Jones

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481 appearances 6 recordings 3 series first heard Apr 2026 last heard 23 Aug

Jack Horgan-Jones’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.

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The Pat Kenny Show · Pat's Sunday Paper Review June 28th · 28 Jun 2026 podcast

Is that, you know, basically if a guard strolls past the suspected gangland criminal on the street or some equivalent scenario, should be able just to seize the criminal's phone and inventory and harvest the data that's in it.

Look, you can kind of see the appeal of it.

You can nab them and that just doesn't... Well, I mean, we do have a kind of big body of civil libertarian knowledge and law around this to kind of prevent arbitrary seizure of people or property by the security forces of the state.

So look, like, well, there may be a kind of

basic level appeal to the idea that you might be able to just interdict a baton and take their phone and do some good by doing that.

Like, I think the architecture of good things that such an approach would weaken would be...

Yeah, so this is a call from Conor Sheehan, the Limerick City TD and Labour spokesperson, spokesman on housing.

He's basically saying, look, we need to increase the level of transparency around buying a house.

And I think that there are many people, anyone who's been involved in buying a house, I think would agree with that.

Like it is this incredible grey market for...

And I think that is the case in other jurisdictions as well.

It's the ultimate example if you wouldn't start from here.

The Irish system for buying houses just seems to be so... The final story we look at is about leave for miscarriage.

Yeah, so this is on the front page of the Sunday Independent.

These are plans that are being worked on by the Minister for Enterprise, Peter Burke, who is hoping to bring them to Cabinet in the not too distant future.

I think it's five days, bear with me here while I pull it up.

I think it's five days, he suggests, of paid leave for those who miscarry before 23 weeks of pregnancy.

And interestingly, it would apply to those pregnant.

who have a termination before 12 weeks and in some limited circumstances after 12 weeks.

So this is obviously a policy direction that the government is interested in.

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