Mary Regan

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767 appearances 11 recordings 4 series first heard Apr 2026 last heard 12 Sep

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The Indo Daily · Drones, cyber-attacks and Putin's war: Is Micheál Martin's EU Presidency a poisoned chalice? · 30 Jun 2026 podcast

I won't bother.

And they sit by a window and I'll often see the sun damage worse on one side of their face.

And I can tell them you're driving on that side or you have a window on that side.

It's just a potential, I guess, for any sort of security disruption, protests, cyber attacks or traffic chaos, which we'll expect anyhow, or even the criticism over spending.

You could argue that the presidency is maybe buying Micheál Martin more time.

You know, there's been rumblings about his leadership for some time in his party now.

And the consensus was always that things would be put on ice until after the EU presidency.

Well, I think from a journalist perspective, it means waiting around for a long time, going through security checks.

We had Roberta Mazzola, the president of the European Parliament, visiting last week.

And that was the kind of first event, even though it happened before the presidency itself.

And there's a lot of traffic disruption in Dublin.

There's a lot of waiting in rooms for hours for people to arrive for very brief press conferences.

That's kind of stuff.

But I mean, when Ireland is taking over the EU presidency from today, essentially what it means is that Ireland will be more or less in the European Council meetings of ministers really for different briefs or different areas, be they, you know, security, the budget, all these different issues.

And what Ireland will be doing is when the big pieces of policy are proposed by the European Commission, and a lot of them will be proposed over the coming weeks, for example, the

online safety and whether there should be a social media ban for children.

Then what happens is they have to go to all the member states, which is the European Council, all the countries of Europe.

The ministers in charge of each area will negotiate a position from European Council point of view.

And Ireland essentially chairs those meetings.

So there's going to be well over...

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