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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But also it's a chance when we're seeing uncertainty in the UK, massive uncertainty in the US, the Middle East, for Ireland to shape the agenda of the European Union.
The European budget, seven-year budget, is going to be negotiated while we're president, so again, a chance to put a stamp on that.
But I think having the European officials explain it as to why everyone who's here in Leash today looking forward to maybe a pint in the sun later should care, that's a big job that they have.
Okay.
Yeah, but kind of when you make a bad decision but you don't really want to admit you've made that bad decision, like, you know, you bought a new car or something and it wasn't all it was cracked up to be and you're trying to justify it to the wife, like, it's not great.
I'll actually never forget the morning because I was reading...
Newstalk early morning bulletins that day and Such was the sign that we all thought this was done It was never gonna pass the news editor was off the deputy news editor was off half of the people were in the room in the building We're on their holidays and we went to bed with Nigel Farage conceding it was over and woke up to oh my god What has just happened to get on the phones and me as a panicked?
22 year old as I was at the time trying to pull it all together But look, I thought Simon Coveney was really interesting on with Anton this morning is worth listening back to like it was a bad move and actually I
economically internationally we've all done quite well here in Ireland since it hasn't been anywhere near as bad as it could have been and the UK is going to its fifth Prime Minister in four years it's not it's not exactly what but at least now they're prepared to talk about it because for a period of time you could not in British politics mention breaks that nobody wants to touch it that's changing
It's starting to change.
I was in, my brother lives in the UK and I was over there at Christmas with him and there are still those who absolutely don't want to talk about it.
It was a great decision and everyone who tells you otherwise is lying to you.
But you only have to go through and, you know, I went through some of the north of England while I was there.
We don't see that kind of poverty in Ireland anymore.
The towns that used to be run down around the country and people will, you know, complain about some towns and how they're treated and the money they get.
It is not comparable.
It's a different level in the UK.
It's a completely different level of poverty than we see in most cases here.
And...
Whoever, if it's Andy Burnham, probably going to be Andy Burnham who takes over.
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