Louise Byrne
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598 appearances
8 recordings
4 series
first heard Apr 2026
last heard 13 Sep
Louise Byrne’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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And then that also didn't pass.
So, I mean...
Mary Lee Macdonald made the point yesterday, and actually I do agree with her.
She was saying, you know, people have called us, you know, whatever word in the media for years, secrecy, all this kind of stuff.
And this is democracy working.
And I think that is part of it.
I think this is what happens when you become a bigger party.
Yeah, this is a new phenomenon, according to the Sunday Independent, of doom spending.
And it's basically spending all your money on nice things because you're never going to be able to afford to buy a house.
Yeah, this is avocado toast for the generation after mine.
But I don't know.
I was kind of reading through this.
I was kind of reading through this and it was people, you know, young people talking about, you know, going on nice holidays and buying themselves nice things.
And then I was thinking back to when I started working full time when I was 19 and I was going, well, yeah, I was spending more money because I didn't have that money before to spend.
So, you know, I was spending it when I was young on nice holidays and nice things.
And then you hit your mid-twenties and you start to realise you need to start saving.
So...
I don't know if this is a new phenomenon or it's just part of growing up and starting to work that you treat yourself.
Yes, so this is kind of a new statement that we're getting from Simon Harris and Jack Chambers after Cabinet this morning.
And it's essentially going to lay out where Ireland is financially.
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