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This is Brendan O'Connor on RTE Radio 1.
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Good morning. You're very welcome to the show. And I have four blushing flowers of panelists here in front of me. So before we meet them, let's have a look at the front pages. The Sunday Times is leading with Fine Gael. TDs are urging Simon Harris for budget largesse. He's coming under pressure, according to Jennifer Bray, from his backbenchers to unveil further financial supports to tackle the cost of living. The business post is gone large on AI. Their front page is, this is different. Stark grad jobs slump deepens coalition's AI fears. The number of young workers in the Irish tech sector has plummeted since 2023, apparently as fears over the impact of AI on the country's economy grow within government.
And there are lots of pieces inside there about that. The Mail on Sunday is leading with new get tough battle plan for bogus migrants. We can no longer be a soft touch, says one anonymous cabinet minister. No, look, what it is, is increasing the number of border security staff hitting airlines and ferry companies that fail to comply with obligations to carry out passport checks, increase spot checks on passengers arriving at the airports and withdraw accommodation from asylum seekers who fail to comply with the international protection process. The Sunday Independent has a poll and their headline is out of that nearly 80% back ending supports for Ukrainians according to that poll we'll come to that and the Mirror has the very sad funeral of Callum Hutchinson.
Callum Hutchinson is 16 and he died last weekend in a car crash and speaking at his funeral in County Tipperary his father Michael said fly high my boy I know you're in the hands of God now. our panel this morning. Niall Boylan is a talk show host and a former independent Ireland candidate in the European Parliament elections. Alison O'Connor is a political commentator with the Sunday Times. Alan Barrett is a research professor at the ESRI. And Seanna Cohen is executive director of the independent think tank TASC. Good morning, everyone.
What are the main headlines from this week's newspapers?
Morning. Alison, this is different according to the front page of the Business Post. AI is coming to get us and we seem to be waking up.
There's a lot of reading in the Sunday papers this morning. If you don't, you know, if you have looking for things to do with your bank holiday Sunday. But if you're in any way worried about AI, I wouldn't really read the business post this morning. It'll knock the stuffing out of you if you're interested in it. Absolutely. This is sort of putting numbers. We've all been concerned about about this at every level globally. Particular concerns, I think, about AI. If you have or if you're a graduate about to about to leave college and enter the job market. And basically this story, this lead story is saying that they've obtained figures that show numbers from 15 to 29 year olds, the key new graduate cohort cohort working in tech, that it has declined by more than 11000 from 36000 at the beginning of 2023.
So from 36,000 to 25,000 by the end of last year. And that really is putting, you know, meat on the bones of, I suppose, what we've all been worrying about. I know that when Micheál Martin, when the Taoiseach was in Washington in March, a number of industry leaders in Irish-American industry that he met there, there was talk of that and how, you know, the need to prepare, the need to prepare for that. But the question is, how do you prepare your population? That really is a very difficult one. And the other thing is they're quoting a source over over new graduates saying that the worry for policymakers was that AI would automate.
How is AI impacting the job market in Ireland?
high, higher skilled jobs. I suppose up to this, the concern has been the lower skilled jobs. But I suppose as the AI is developing and going along, obviously the worry is that it'll be able to do more and more. So I suppose it's with everything else that's going on, the wars, the fuel crisis, AI is another one of those things that we need to bring to the front of our minds.
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Chapters
8 chapters
1
What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
0:00–2:33
2
What are the main headlines from this week's newspapers?
2:33–4:22
3
How is AI impacting the job market in Ireland?
4:22–6:24
4
What are the implications of the new migrant policies?
6:24–8:28
5
What are the public's sentiments regarding government support for Ukrainians?
8:28–10:20
6
How do the panelists view the current political landscape?
10:20–18:06
7
How are economic pressures affecting voter behavior?
18:06–22:55
8
What challenges are Irish graduates facing in the job market?
22:55–54:26