Louise McSharry

It just means so much to me that those of you who are on the Patreon value this podcast enough to think that, yeah, I would throw a few quid Louise's way so she can keep the show on the road.

It means that I can have Alice O'Brien, who is assistant producer, working with me.

Like that's literally what your contributions enable.

um and I am so so grateful for it so thank you so much and if you can't afford it or you're just not you're the position you're in I don't want you to feel guilty about that either these episodes Monday Wednesday Friday are free they will always be free um but those of you who are in a position to maybe throw a bit my way it is just so gratefully received um and as I say just directly impacts the success of the podcast so thank you so much

Okay.

Oh, and also we will, there will be a new episode of Screens going up on Wednesday where myself and Eamon McElysett talk TV and film.

So very much looking forward to that.

There's loads of stuff to talk about.

Now though, my friends, I'm going to let you go.

I really hope you have a good next couple of days, but of course they cannot all be good.

So if not, just put one foot in front of the other and we will be together again on Wednesday.

Hello, my friend, and welcome to Catch Up with Louise McSharry.

This is the podcast where I do my best to keep you caught up with what's going on in the world, whether indeed it is a news catch up on Monday, an entertainment catch up on Wednesday, or a chat with someone interesting who's got something interesting going on on a Friday.

I'm trying to just keep you looped in and entertained, frankly.

that's you know that's the main goal um today is monday so obviously we're catching up on the news there is so much to talk about there i don't even know where to begin i mean you'll hear where we begin but obviously a lot has been happening over the course of the weekend in terms of global politics but we've also got a really really fun story to wrap up with this week and in fact one of my favorite stories that we've talked about in quite some time so i hope you'll stick around for that here is carl kintzler

Good morning, Carl Kinsella.

I had chosen all of the stories for today's news episode and then things got immeasurably worse over the weekend.

So let's start with global news because there's been a lot going on.

What is happening with Iran, Lebanon and Israel?

Yeah, it just betrays such a disrespect for human life via Israel and America.