Menu
Sign In Search Podcasts Charts People & Topics Add Podcast API Pricing
Podcast Image

Early Edition

Offaly murder victims named, e-scooters, the M50 and Christmas culture wars

08 Dec 2025

Description

Gardaí suspect criminals involved in the drugs trade in the Midlands were behind the firebombing of a family home in Edenderry, Co Offaly, on Saturday night that claimed the life of a young boy and his grandaunt. E-scooters are now the leading cause of traumatic brain injury in children, despite the fact they’re now illegal for under 16s. Doctors and road safety advocates are appealing to people not to buy them as presents this Christmas.In his Unthinkable column, Joe Humphreys is writing about Elon Musk’s apparent gunning for Ireland’s “wokerati” who *checks notes* want to ban Christmas. He points out it is capitalism that is corrupting the values of the nativity.The M50 is maxed out. Now what? Professor of Transportation Research at Trinity College Dublin, Brian Caulfield, is writing about how to get it moving again. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Audio
Featured in this Episode

No persons identified in this episode.

Transcription

This episode hasn't been transcribed yet

Help us prioritize this episode for transcription by upvoting it.

0 upvotes
🗳️ Sign in to Upvote

Popular episodes get transcribed faster

Comments

There are no comments yet.

Please log in to write the first comment.