Pat's Sunday Paper Review May 31st
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What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
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Well, we're going to go through the Sunday newspapers first with Mark Hennessy, who's Ireland and Britain editor with the Irish Times. Looking at the Irish Mail, first of all, monster legend used his charity to pay own firm. This is a story about Doug Howlett. The secret of looking good at 93 years of age. Joan Collins is the one sharing her secret. Upskill plans for 100,000 workers in AI shake-up, and that is to persuade people, forget about your white-collar degree, go get a trade. At the Business Post exclusive, McDonald feels the heat as Sinn Féin slumps four points, and we'll dissect that poll in a few minutes' time.
What stories are highlighted in the Irish Mail?
Also, Lucinda Creighton is talking about the left's folly on Occupied Territories Bill is exposed, and more stories around that in many of the papers. I'm Irish, ousted BP boss manifold defends his colourful language on the basis that he's Irish. How strange. Anyway, that's on the front of the Sunday Times. Toxic culture hampered patient care. It's a story about St. Vincent's Hospital, which seems to be unique to the Sunday Times. Civil servant faces accusations of leaking data to foreign intelligence service. That's one also in The Times. The Sunday Independent. Cairns rules out formal left-wing pact for the next election. That's their main story there. Looking at some of the red tops, the Irish Sunday Mirror.
First Degree Murder. Wife Killer Joe, and this is about Joe O'Reilly, gets university qualification behind bars. And Shamed Hurler DJ Kerry also goes back to school in jail. And then The Irish Sun on Sunday has a story. Kielty's Late Late Clash. Patrick Healty battles with RTE over teleformat.
What are the implications of the AI shake-up for workers?
It appears he wants to go back to its origins and be tougher. That's what Patrick has in mind. Now, Mark, you've been going through the papers. It's a bank holiday weekend selection, really, isn't it?
It is, and it has a certain flavour of that. I must say, I find most poll stories three years out from elections to be pretty meaningless. But I think the one that the Sunday Business Post today has on the state of the parties is particularly interesting in the wake of what we saw with the by-elections. And there's a lot of really bad news in it for Sinn Féin and the way in which it's getting crimped in a very different way to the problems it's having.
Even though the numbers, and last time we read it at polls, people were saying, but Sinn Féin still were the biggest party.
How does the latest poll affect Sinn Féin's political standing?
So, you know, it's not fair to them to be criticising them.
And that is true. It's the direction of travel, though, isn't it? It's the direction of travel. But more importantly, it's the kind of fracturing that's taking place that once upon a time their target was to assault on Fianna Fáil and Fianna Gael, whereas now they're getting bitten away on the other side with the Sock Dems and with others. And we've seen in some of the papers today with the interviews with Holly Cairns ruling out formal left alliances. That's all the sort of things that a political leader can say when they think that they have the win behind them. And we saw in the by-elections that the talk of left alliances and transfer pacts and all of that kind of thing didn't quite mean as much as perhaps some of the people would have hoped at the time.
But Sinn Féin had to reinvent itself a couple of times in the past and has done so successfully.
What controversies surround the Occupied Territories Bill?
A question now is whether it gets into some sort of internal debate. I was at their Ardèche in Belfast a few weeks ago, and I didn't get that sense that there was a real conversation going on about, you know, definitely people were unhappy, but in terms of people having solutions to the problems that they're facing, the answers to that seem to be far more vague.
Does Michal Martin get any comfort, cold or otherwise, from this poll?
No, he doesn't. I mean, he's down, Fianna Fáil are down a percent and his figures are poor. He's at a 36 rating. Now, as somebody said to me recently or the other day when they met him at something and they described him as being giddy.
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Chapters
6 chapters
1
What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
0:01–0:47
2
What stories are highlighted in the Irish Mail?
0:47–1:57
3
What are the implications of the AI shake-up for workers?
1:57–2:40
4
How does the latest poll affect Sinn Féin's political standing?
2:40–3:32
5
What controversies surround the Occupied Territories Bill?
3:32–6:09
6
What are the key details of the civil servant's data leak case?
6:09–17:02