Sinead O'Sullivan

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721 appearances 4 recordings 3 series first heard Apr 2026 last heard 23 Jul

Sinead O'Sullivan’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.

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The Pat Kenny Show · In Ireland, why do we find it so hard to make progress on infrastructure? · 18 Apr 2026 podcast

it is an indicator of a lack of wealth and a lack of prosperity.

Absolutely.

So this is another workaround that people have adopted into their lives.

Now, one by one, you might not notice it.

Every day you kind of sign up for the health insurance.

You know, you renew it the next year.

You buy the second car.

You think about putting your kids into the private school.

But all of these, it's kind of like the frog boiling water.

All of them eventually add up.

Now you then think about the people that cannot make use of these workarounds.

They cannot get the private health insurance.

They cannot get the second car.

They cannot get the kids into the private school.

I personally know many of these people, and they are feeling very, very real.

squeezing of their lifestyle into a category that just does not fit the highest or the second highest wealth in Europe.

So, you know, I want to zoom out a little bit here because I think this is actually important and the context here is actually very enlightening.

So, I mean, not to take us on too much of a detour back into history, but as many of your listeners will indeed know, we are a former, Ireland is a former colony of the British Empire.

So we were effectively run from the UK or from Britain for a long time.

When Britain left, we were subsequently, a lot of our services, so for example, healthcare, hospitals, education, budgets, were run by the Catholic Church.

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