Mick Clifford
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415 appearances
4 recordings
2 series
first heard Apr 2026
last heard 23 Aug
Mick Clifford’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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One other quick thing in terms of rural Ireland, another thing that's missing, and not totally, but to the extent that it is in other countries, but because there's a depletion of local media.
you have a vacuum there that is being filled by social media and that can very often rely on emotion, misinformation and what have you.
And once that spreads, it gets up anger, it gets up resentment, the whole thing.
And that is an issue too.
No, I mean, it's a psychodrama that pops up every now and again.
And I mean, Willie O'Dea is a column, which I think probably sums up a lot of it, where he talks about it.
Despair is that it's deeper today within the party than it ever was.
Now, you're talking about a party.
that went through existential change in 2011 and went through some serious issues since then.
Now despair is deeper.
He's saying that Fine Gael, those rotters in Fine Gael are actually playing the dark arts of politics better than Fianna Fáil.
He made a comment about we need to get back to humanity.
Again suggesting presumably that the Fine Gaelers, their colleagues didn't know much about humanity.
And
The thing that struck me more than anything, we're talking about despair, we're talking about the party.
Not once did he mention the issue that is straining the social contract, particularly in a generational sense, and that is housing.
So you had this whole existential manufactured crisis within Fianna Fáil over Micheál Martin again.
And funnily enough, Willie O'Dea is the same man back in 2014, one of the early heaves against him.
He had a great quote one morning where he said...
He said, I look around the table at my colleagues and I don't see the Messiah and I look in the mirror and I don't see him either.
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