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What are the headline stories in today's Irish newspapers?
Good morning, you're very welcome to the show. Before we meet our panel, let's have a look at the front pages. So the business post is leading with revealed. State consultancy spend triples to five hundred and nineteen million. That's half a billion to you know the usual suspects delight, EY, Accenture, uh, etc. Uh this Sunday Times uh budget to ease heating costs for thousands, uh families benefit, but welfare and pensions face squeeze, and they have um as other papers do a number of things we can expect in the budget there and we look at them in a minute. Um The Irish Daily Mail is leading with uh uh the headline is I won't resign over naming whistleblower. Defiant Minister Helen McIntyre yesterday insisted she was not going to consider resigning in the face of what they're calling John Lee uh writing mounting political pressure.
Uh The Sun on Sunday has the story that is also in other papers that um Cartel Chief Christy Kinnahan has been ordered to leave the UAE by September twenty-ninth. He has had his visa cancelled uh apparently, and that seems to be uh the the Sunday Times are carrying that also in conjunction with Bellingcat, who have done very good work and all that, so that sounds quite credible. Uh the Irish Sunday Murray is leading with Nikita, my fight for survival, and that is an An account of the interview Nikita Hand gave yesterday on this show and the Sunday Time or Sunday Independent, I beg your pardon, leading with a budget story. Teens set for a hundred euro culture allowance as budget talks heat up, a voucher to be spent on arts events, and they also have a number of other uh budget measures in that story as well.
Okay. Our panel this morning, Bridget Laffin is Emeritus Professor at the European University Institute. Ellen Coyne is a political correspondent at the Irish Times. Fine McGrath is a former independent TD and a former Minister for State for Disability Issues. And Doctor Barra Rointree is an economist at Trinity College Dublin. Good morning everyone. Finney, you like the hundred euro culture allowance for the kids?
I c I saw the teen set to get a hundred euro culture alone, says the budget talks heat up uh piece written by Connell Tum uh Thomas and Sarah Collins. Basically what's going to happen is in the budget all sixty year olds will be given a sixteen year olds.
And the move the move has been touted as well as as a cost cost of um living measure to help young people. But I'd be very s uh strongly supportive of it because I think the arts in a lot of s secondary schools and primary schools could be much better. There's a very strong emphasis on sports in a lot of schools. You were a teacher. I was a I'm a former teacher, yeah. I was I'm a former teacher, yeah.
What kind of a school did you teach? Well I
t I taught uh uh in a Desch school, which would be a disadvantaged school, but I I noticed when I took over as principal there that there was a lot of soccer, Gaelic, football, hurling and then the kids that were interested in arts and music and all that weren't really at the races, so we ch I changed the whole policy in the school to bring in do guitar lessons, do percussion lessons, bring in artists, painters, everything. And then all of a sudden we had a core of kids then That were in that space and then just developed And those kind of
kids who were a bit more alternative and maybe a bit more likely to get into trouble. They're also the kids who are more likely to join a band, aren't they? Exactly, yeah.
I mean I can think of one one of my past pupils, I taught him a few chords in sixth class at twelve, and about uh fifteen, sixteen years later I was out in um in uh whatcha hotel in Port Marnock, where we used to all go to dances and discos. I can't remember the name of it again now.
Before my time. Oh yeah.
But uh I he was playing in the band at the gig. Sands? Uh Sands Hotel. Good man. That's it. You're showing you radio. Somebody somebody older there. Well done Sands Hotel. But I'm just making the point was when Durham was up on the stage, I didn't recognise I hadn't seen him since he was twelve.
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Chapters
5 chapters
1
What are the headline stories in today's Irish newspapers?
0:00–10:21
2
How will the proposed €100 culture allowance for teens impact education?
10:21–24:15
3
What are the key points of the budget's fuel and heating‑cost measures?
24:15–40:41
4
How is state consultancy spending changing and why does it matter?
40:41–52:19
5
What are the implications of the upcoming public‑sector strike and wage negotiations?
52:19–52:41
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