Taking sides on Israel and Palestine, health money pit, flooding hits Cork

Published: Oct. 20, 2023, 1:54 p.m.

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Pat Leahy and Jack Horgan-Jones join Hugh Linehan to look at the week in Irish politics:


  • Foreign policy came to D\\xe1il \\xc9ireann as Government and opposition tried and failed to agree a motion on the crisis in Israel and Palestine.


  • Dismay at the Department of Health and the HSE over a shortfall in funding for next year spills out into the open.


  • The political response to devastating flooding in Cork and the reality that climate mitigation will be among the State\'s biggest problems for - at least - decades to come.


Plus the panel pick their Irish Times stories of the week:


Does President Michael D. Higgins see Russia as a colonial power - and why should we care?


A weary response to Time Out\'s claim that Smithfield is the second-coolest place on on the planet.







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