Mary Regan
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767 appearances
11 recordings
4 series
first heard Apr 2026
last heard 12 Sep
Mary Regan’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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Yeah, I thought it was interesting.
There were very different interviews, found out different things in reading all of them.
Niamh Horan in the Sunday Independent has an interview with Ed Walsh.
The first thing that struck me, it's probably more sort of frivolous than anything else, but how he met Donald Trump, his great pal Donald Trump.
And he said he was, you know, he's a young man in business, not very successful, a kind of a struggle, he said at that point.
But he paid 220,000 a year to join a golf club and made it his business to play around with Donald Trump, then made it his business to beat him.
And from then on in, Trump respected him.
But it kind of highlighted to me the sort of transactional nature of the relationships and how they develop, you know, at this at this level.
But then sticking with that theme, he kind of talks about Ireland and the importance of the US relationship with Ireland and how Ireland is in a very good position compared to other European countries and its closeness to the US.
But he says that, you know, Ireland needs to, as he put it in his own words, you know, stick, stay in its lane, stay in the lane where you are.
and the road ahead will be smooth.
So there was a sort of warning there as we take up the EU Council presidency.
He is talking about regulation, saying, you know, if Ireland does anything during the EU presidency, it's to reduce the sort of regulation and red tape, you know, to doing business in the European Union, which is interesting because, especially when it comes to the tech sector, you know, there are moves at EU level, you know, for more regulation.
And we see now with, you know,
Elon Musk and X and how things played out in Belfast this week.
But from the one side, Ireland is coming under pressure from the US saying don't regulate and then there will be other pressure coming from the European Union.
And then in the mail on Sunday, his interview with John Lee is very much focused on the Occupied Territories Bill and saying that it is a source of...
annoyance to US businesses and it will damage Ireland's interests, even the sort of what many claim is the watered down version that is currently going through the Oireachtas.
So just on that point of the government not sort of preparing people or explaining enough to people the, you know, the importance of US business here, the Taoiseach in particular, I think he really did change his position on the Occupied Territories Bill.
The argument had been for so long when it was, you know, being delayed and, you know, they were accused of slow walking.
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