Sean Defoe
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707 appearances
8 recordings
2 series
first heard Apr 2026
last heard 23 Jun
Sean Defoe’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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Yeah definitely and maybe perhaps if you have a mortgage you have a house you're more likely to be able to afford your bills you're more likely to have that bit of extra money and if you're stuck in the rent trap as well as facing all the additional costs I mean there's some absolutely remarkable data in that Bernardo's report this morning and
I found that 30% of parents surveyed felt at some point they didn't have enough food to feed their children.
That's up from 28% in 2025, which, you know, Ireland in the year we're in is remarkable.
A third of people not knowing if they had enough food to feed their kids on any given day.
get ready for the planes from Brussels to just line up and start hitting Dublin Airport, because they're all going to come in from now, and Roberta Mazzola, and I think it's called the College of Presidents, which sounds very fancy, but it's basically the presidents of all the different political party groupings in the European Parliament, including Billy Kelleher, who'll be here,
leading the Aldi group.
So they're meeting with the president this morning, Catherine Connolly, they're going to meet the Taoiseach later, members of the Oireachtas and ministers, and do a press conference this evening.
And like that, it's, hi, we're in Ireland, we're going to be here for six months from the 1st of July, and here's our priorities, which include defence spending, include AI as well.
She's going to be talking about that today to tie in with what we were saying about the gigafactories.
And yeah, it's going to keep coming, the
All the commissioners, Ursula von der Leyen, they're all due.
And then every obscure minister for, junior minister for energy from Croatia or wherever it is, they're all going to be here over the next six months.
It's a very good question.
It's costing an awful amount, 160 to 180 million to host before you factor in security.
So that's before Garda overtime, before all the rest of it.
So easily a quarter of a billion euro to host.
I asked this at the Taoiseach, the question I put to him is, why should anyone care?
Why should someone who's listening to this, driving a van today, care we're going to have the European presidency for six months?
And he sort of said,
look, we're proud Europeans, we're members of the European Union, we have to host it, we just don't really have a choice, we have to host it every 13 years.
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