Podcasts about irish state

The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has published its latest projections for the 2030 climate targets and it's bad news for Ireland.The Irish State has the worst emissions per capita in Europe – projections show our greenhouse gas emissions will fall by just 23 per cent by 2030, compared to our original national target of 51 per cent, according to EPA data published on Wednesday.The latest figures indicate none of the State's biggest emitting sectors – transport, agriculture and electricity – will meet their climate commitments. In most sectors, emissions continue to rise or are going down only marginally.The cost of missing these targets is obvious – extreme weather events are becoming more frequent and disruptive. And countries who fail to meet these commitments must pay huge fines.What can Ireland do between now and 2030 to reduce emissions? And how much will Ireland pay if it fails to meet these legally-binding targets?Irish Times environment and science correspondent Kevin O'Sullivan discusses the implications of Ireland's failure to meet climate targets. Presented by Sorcha Pollak. Produced by John Casey. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Producer James Wilson looks at the darkest chapter in European history - the murder of six million Jews by Nazi Germany. But what impact did this genocide have on Ireland?In the Swastika's Shadow: Ireland and the Holocaust explores how the Irish State dealt with Hitler, the Jewish community's fight for survival and the heroism of the Irish people who resisted the Nazis. Containing interviews with three Holocaust survivors, film director Lenny Abrahamson and former Taoiseach Leo Varadkar, In the Swastika's Shadow casts new light on this harrowing chapter in Irish history.Music provided by celloist Patrick Dexter and the Amsterdam Sinfonietta orchestra. This documentary contains conversations that some listeners may find upsetting.

This week, we're keeping one eye on Wall Street and the other on a canal in Dublin. Moody's just downgraded the United States' credit rating, a move that quietly confirms what most won't say out loud: America's debt-fuelled growth is unsustainable, and interest payments are now outpacing military spending. Meanwhile, back home, a row of cottages literally collapsed, not abandoned, but owned by the very people lobbying to fix Ireland's housing crisis. In a country where average rents just passed €2,000. In this episode, we tie it all together: the real consequences of debt, the performative hypocrisy at the top, and how property in Ireland has become a parasitic asset, not a social good. From Donald Trump's inflationary tariff plans to the Irish State's inability to enforce basic upkeep, we're watching the scaffolding of credibility, financial and moral, fall away. Join the gang! https://plus.acast.com/s/the-david-mcwilliams-podcast. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Michael Collins and Arthur Griffith are dead, Britain is making it no secret that they think they Provisional Government doesn't have a chance in hell of surviving without Collins, and the Postal Workers are going on strike. These are just some of the problems facing the Cosgrave administration as they build an Irish State in the middle of a civil war. TranscriptSupport this podcast by ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠joining my Patreon⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Join my newsletter⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠and stay up to date on all my projects⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Follow me on Instagram⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Follow me on Bluesky⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Visit my website

The pope's legacy, the politics of the papacy, conservatism versus liberalism and did Francis fall in the middle? How the Irish State's relationship with Catholicism has changed in the last half-century, and Ivan's bet on who will be the next pope. Teacher burnout: how the nature of the job has changed and what needs to be done to have more teachers. And Matt defends himself on the downsizing of homes as people age and the size of family units begins to fall.Brought to you by Greenman OPENPTP+To enjoy early access, ad-free listening and a weekly bonus episode, sign up at pathtopowerpodcast.comGet in touch: mail@pathtopowerpodcast.comFollow the hosts:Matt: https://twitter.com/cooper_mhttps://www.instagram.com/mattcooperlastword/Ivan: https://www.instagram.com/officialivanyates/ Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

The Sallins train robbery was one of the most daring and lucrative heists in the history of the Irish State. And for Osgur Breatnach, a journalist and activist, it was the beginning of an ordeal that haunts him to this day. He was arrested that morning in 1976, as one of six accused of carrying out the robbery. One week before Christmas of the same year, he and his co-accused were brought into the Special Criminal Court and charged with the crime. It would become one of the most dramatic and longest-running criminal trials in the history of the State. In the final episode of this two-part documentary special, Kevin Doyle revisits the Sallins Train Robbery, speaking to Osgur Breathnach about the trial of the ‘sleeping Judge', living with PTSD, and why he feels a public inquiry is justified for he and his co-accused. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

The Sallins train robbery was one of the most daring and lucrative heists in the history of the Irish State. And for Osgur Breatnach, a journalist and activist, it was the beginning of an ordeal that haunts him to this day. He was arrested that morning in 1976, as one of six accused of carrying out the robbery. One week before Christmas of the same year, he and his co-accused were brought into the Special Criminal Court and charged with the crime. It would become one of the most dramatic and longest-running criminal trials in the history of the State. In the final episode of this two-part Indo Daily documentary special, Kevin Doyle revisits the Sallins Train Robbery, speaking to Osgur Breathnach about the trial of the ‘sleeping Judge', living with PTSD, and why he feels a public inquiry is justified for he and his co-accused. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

On this episode of The Long Game Podcast, Jason Osborne and Ben Scallan discuss the Stoneybatter stabbing, the Irish State giving millions of euros to media outlets to protect 'democracy', how to make the Eurovision less crap, and more:

It's Catholic Schools Week – an annual celebration of the positive principles of a catholic ethos in the classroom. But does religion still have a part to play in Irish state-funded education? We discuss with Alan Hynes Chief Executive of the Catholic Education Partnership and Michael Nugent Chair of Atheist Ireland.

It's Catholic Schools Week – an annual celebration of the positive principles of a catholic ethos in the classroom. But does religion still have a part to play in Irish state-funded education? We discuss with Alan Hynes Chief Executive of the Catholic Education Partnership and Michael Nugent Chair of Atheist Ireland.

The incredible story of how former male model Patrick Crinnion rose through the ranks of garda intelligence, only to join a network of MI6 spies designed to infiltrate the Irish State. Host: Fionnán Sheahan. Guest: David BurkeSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Moore St. Demolition Gets Green LightThe battle to save the iconic 1916 Moore Street Battlefield site has been ongoing for over 20 years. During that time there have been a series of plans by developers, appeals against those plans, court cases, protests and sit-ins. Last week, in an appalling decision An Bord Pleanála (ABP) – the Planning Authority in the Irish State – ruled on the remaining appeals and published its recommendations on the future development of the site.Máire FergusonEvery week seems to bring the death of the last of that generation who kept freedoms flame lit in the twilight decades of the republican struggle from the 1950s on. Emmett O Connell from the South Bronx was one of these. Tá sé ar slí an fhirrne anios. So was Máire Ferguson.

In this episode of Film Ireland presents, Gemma Creagh talks with BAFTA-nominated writer/director Virginia Gilbert about her powerful and evocative film Reawakening. Virginia Gilbert is an award-winning, BAFTA and IFTA nominated writer and director. Her screenwriting work has been placed on the BritList and she was named as a 'Star of Tomorrow' by Screen International. Her debut short as writer-director, Hesitation, won numerous awards internationally and was nominated for a BAFTA and an IFTA. Her debut feature A Long Way From Home, starring Academy-Award winner Brenda Fricker, BAFTA winner James Fox and Natalie Dormer, was nominated for the Michael Powell award for Best British Feature. Recent work includes the two-part series finale of BBC One's Silent Witness – Betrayal; award-winning Screen Ireland short Day Out, starring Martin McCann and Alisha Weir and Home, starring Max Irons, currently on the festival circuit. Previous television credits include Lord Haw-Haw for RTE 1; Money, Money, Money, RTE 2; the award-winning series Whores and IFTA-nominated series An Irish State of Mind for TG4. Virginia is also a published author. Her fiction work has featured on BBC Radio 4 and her debut novel, Travelling Companion, has been optioned for screen. Reawakening is her second feature as writer-director and her first as producer.

Please join us at patreon.com/tortoiseshack Shortly after the European Court of Justice ruled that the Irish State had given illegal state aid to Appple, via what was a sweetheart tax evasion scheme, we spoke with one of the people who has being covering this and studying tax, tax justice, corporate power and its impact on democracy, UCD's Assoc Prof Aidan Reagan. So now we know, Ireland is legally adjudged to be a tax haven. What happens now and who will be held accountable? We get into it. Note: This podcast is going out now as it was a member-only podcast, but so many members asked us to put it out as they wanted it to get as big an audience as possible. The Eoin Ó Broin Housing Plan Podcast is here:https://www.patreon.com/posts/111406218 The Gaza Appeal is here:https://www.patreon.com/posts/103882396

The High Court has ruled that the State is in breach of human rights law by failing to house almost 3,000 people who have sought international protection in Ireland since last year The case was taken by the Irish Human Rights and Equality Commission. To discuss further Ciara was joined on the show by Michael O'Neill, Head of Legal at the IHREC.

The High Court has ruled that the State is in breach of human rights law by failing to house almost 3,000 people who have sought international protection in Ireland since last year The case was taken by the Irish Human Rights and Equality Commission. To discuss further Ciara was joined on the show by Michael O'Neill, Head of Legal at the IHREC.

The incredible story of how former male model Patrick Crinnion rose through the ranks of garda intelligence, only to join a network of MI6 spies designed to infiltrate the Irish State. Host: Fionnán Sheahan, Guest: David Burke See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

From the marriage bar to unequal pay - we're finding out about the status and position of women in the independent Irish state and the long fight for equality. Patrick is joined by Dr Mary McAuliffe, Assistant Professor in the School of Social Policy, Social Work and Social Justice, and Director of Gender Studies at UCD, Dr Deirdre Foley, Irish Research Council Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of History, Trinity College Dublin, and Dr Sarah-Anne Buckley, Associate Professor in History at the University of Galway.

Hugh is joined by Pat Leahy and Cormac McQuinn to look back on the week in politics:The conviction of former US president Donald Trump on 34 counts of falsifying business records related to an alleged hush money payment to Stormy Daniels is unprecedented in American political history. But will it make any difference on election day?More evidence emerged this week that Ireland is failing to meet legally-binding climate change targets.Will a scandal that engulfed Fine Gael local election candidate Marian Agrios dent the party outside of Louth, or even her Drogheda constituency?Plus, the panelists pick their favourite IT reads of the week:Our new columnist Mark O'Connell on why students keep schtum when asked why they are protesting.Revelations that the Irish State is in the pocket of Big Smoky Bacon.Ireland's Chief Rabbi Yoni Wieder criticises President Higgins.Sign up for Politics push alerts and have the best news, analysis and comment delivered directly to your phoneFind The Irish Times on WhatsApp and stay up to date Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Nick Henderson, chief executive officer of the Irish Refugee Council, discusses homelessness among asylum seekers as Irish Human Rights and Equality Commission takes Irish State to court.

This week on Screentime John Fardy talks to director Colm Quinn about ‘Ransom 79' the new documentary that details Charlie Bird's last big story about a massive ransom plan against the Irish State. John also talk to filmmaker Gary Lennon about his film ‘Piano Dreams' about the dedication and sacrifices involved in the young talented musicians in China's Classical music scene. Plus Niamh O'Reilly reviews ‘Furiosa; A Mad Max Saga' as well as ‘Atlas' starring Jennifier Lopez.

National Broadband Ireland (NBI), the company rolling out the Government's National Broadband Plan (NBP), has praised Ireland's global leadership on World Telecommunication Day (17th May), by highlighting recent industry statistics published by ComReg which demonstrates the countries' progress towards becoming the most connected country in Europe. According to ComReg, almost 668,000 subscriber lines are now fibre-to-the-premises (FTTP), representing over 40% of total fixed broadband subscriber lines in Ireland. ComReg also noted that FTTP is the most commonly purchased broadband technology and is currently available at 62% of all premises, as measured by Eircodes. In relation to the analysis, National Broadband Ireland Chief Executive Officer, Peter Hendrick, said: "The purpose of World Telecommunication Day is to help raise awareness of the possibilities that the Internet can bring to societies and economies, as well as ways to bridge the digital divide, so it's interesting to reflect on ComReg's recent findings. The data shows notable uptake of fibre broadband connections, and while that is encouraging in terms of creating a gigabit society, we can, and should do more." Mr Hendrick went on to comment on NBI's own experience to date, "The take-up rate on the NBI network, when blended across all deployment areas, currently averages 30%. Naturally, all deployment areas are released to market at different time intervals, so it is vital to understand how take-up performs over time. We're happy to report that take-up is 50% in areas where the network has been live for more than 24 months. "While this performance is surpassing initial expectations and other international comparisons; for every premises connected to fibre, there remains one that is unconnected. As an industry, we must address any gap in public understanding of the reliability and speed which is now becoming available on fibre to the home networks and ensure that people are not missing out on the benefits of high-speed broadband." David McCourt, founder and chairman of National Broadband Ireland commented,"A huge amount of credit must go to the Irish Government for its ambition and leadership in developing the NBP. Their blueprint coupled with NBI's execution provides a model for other countries to follow, as Ireland will soon become the most connected country in Europe. "At NBI, we believe that better broadband networks promote social progress, equality and sustainability. With connectivity and access to pioneering technologies such as Artificial Intelligence, Ireland has a genuine opportunity to be a global leader and ensure its citizens have access to better and cheaper services such as education and healthcare." The National Broadband Plan (NBP) is the Irish Government's initiative to deliver high-speed broadband services to all premises in Ireland that aren't served by commercial operators. It is the largest ever telecommunications project undertaken by the Irish State and recognised as one of the biggest and most ambitious telecoms infrastructure projects of its kind globally. Once completed, it will serve over 1.1 million people and ensure all of Ireland will have access to a modern and reliable broadband network, capable of supporting the communications, information, education and entertainment requirements of current and future generations. See more stories here.

As the Irish State agrees to investigate its role in the Magdalene Laundries, Steven prepares to meet the chairperson of that group, Martin McAleese, to outline his evidence of State interaction and submit the stories he gathered of the women to the committee. Steven also presents the committee with a Magdalene Laundry ledger detailing the State's financial contributions to a Magdalene Laundry in Dublin. Steven also submits key evidence of State involvement to other Magdalene laundries operating throughout Ireland.Soon, word begins to filter through that the Stanhope Laundry, where Kathleen Legg resided, will not be part of the state investigation, leaving the survivors shocked and bewildered. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Episode 71 The Fifth Court with Peter Leonard BL and Mark Tottenham BLThe Apple Tax CaseWill they, won't they? Should they, would they?Questions, questions, questions about the now infamous 'Apple tax case' whereby some groups are hoping to make the Irish State accept more than €13bn in taxes they say are owed by the global iPhone maker. Meanwhile the Irish Government is hoping to avoid receiving this massive windfall!It's a case without precedent in Ireland that has given its own windfall to the commentariat.On this episode our hosts interview Dr. Charles Garavan, lawyer and tax expert, who is Assistant Professor at the Business Faculty at UCD. (BTW, he's also a 'memory man' that you'll learn more about on the podcast. Fascinating.).The Apple case may be heading, slowly but finally, towards a conclusion. This interview is an 'Apple Tax 101' that will have you perfectly informed when discussing it with colleagues.Charles' book choice is 'A Guide to the Good Life' by William B. IrvineAs always our two hosts also delve into three recent cases from the Decisis.ie casebook, including;A habeas corpus application where the judge ruled that a doctor had withheld relevant informationA personal injuries case where an employee cut themselves whilst carrying trays. The judge in this case decided there was partial responsibilityA case under a European Arrest Warrant where a Czech national was wanted for road traffic offences in his native country. The judge ordered him sent back.With thanks to Clio legal software Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Please join us at patreon.com/tortoiseshack The government's new planning bill has been called anti-democratic, regressive and dystopian. And that was by its supporters. We now know, following the work of the Ditch, that there are real worries about who is driving this policy. Joining us to discuss the many flaws is solicitor Fred Logue. He's worried that in seeking to fix a problem that doesn't exist this Bill will cause more litigation, longer planning delays and slow down housing delivery. Doomed before it begins? The Constantin Gurdgiev podcast is out now here:https://www.patreon.com/posts/patron-exclusive-100344192

Brian Killoran, ICI, on the changes to how the Irish State will deal with new immigrants into the country.

Working with HEAnet, Ireland's national education and research network, Enet is now connecting 361 post-primary schools, nearly half of all post primary schools in Ireland, and 301 primary schools. Ranging from a minimum of 200 Mbit/s up to 1 Gbit/s, these connections are divided between fibre (419) and wireless (245) technology. The connections are allowing even more students and their teachers in all four corners of the country to utilise valuable and engaging online educational resources. They also facilitate the quick upload and download of material, instant connection to the internet, and the increased and varied use of online applications, whiteboards and iPads in the classroom, offering the opportunity to transform the educational landscape and establish Irish schools as world class centres of e-learning. The location of the schools across Ireland are as follows: Munster: Cork: 95 schools Tipperary: 49 schools Kerry: 30 schools Waterford: 30 schools Limerick: 29 schools Clare: 9 schools Leinster: Dublin: 47 schools Wexford: 26 schools Offaly: 22 schools Wicklow: 21 schools Louth: 20 schools Kilkenny: 17 schools Meath: 15 schools Longford: 13 schools Carlow: 13 schools Kildare: 11 schools Westmeath: 10 schools Laois: 7 schools Connacht: Mayo: 52 schools Galway: 38 schools Sligo: 12 schools Roscommon: 9 schools Leitrim: 8 schools Ulster: Donegal: 47 schools Monaghan: 34 schools Cavan: 27 schools Peter McCarthy, Group CEO of Speed Fibre Group, the home of Enet, said: "Enet is delighted to work with HEAnet to deliver high speed connectivity to 650+ schools across Ireland, some of which are in quite remote locations. These connections are vastly improving the overall learning experience for students, as well as their teachers, to ensure they have access to the vast array of educational resources available online. We're very proud that our service is helping to equip a whole new generation of students with the skills they need for an Ireland that is fast becoming technology and digital driven." Dónal Ó Cearbhaill, Schools Network Director at HEAnet, said: "At HEAnet, our vision is to enable Ireland's digital ambition. Our collaboration with Enet marks a significant achievement in delivering high-speed internet connections to over 650 schools in Ireland. This milestone not only reflects our commitment to providing shared service ICT solutions but also emphasises the crucial role technology plays in shaping the future of education. By bridging the digital divide and connecting schools nationwide, HEAnet continues to contribute to a more equitable and digitally enriched learning environment, empowering both students and educators to thrive in the digital era." The Department of Education secured funding under Ireland's National Recovery and Resilience Plan supported by the NextGenerationEU Recovery and Resilience Facility for a Broadband Enhancement Project for Primary schools through the Department's Schools Broadband Programme. Enet, which is part of the Speed Fibre Group, operates the largest alternative wholesale telecoms network in Ireland, which comprises of over 5,600 Km of fibre infrastructure, including the Irish State's Metropolitan Area Networks (MANs), proprietary metro networks, a unique dark fibre backhaul infrastructure, as well as one of the largest licensed wireless networks in the country. Taken together, Enet's infrastructure creates a fully integrated nationwide telecommunications network that is truly open access in nature, enabling retail service providers and network operators to deliver world class data connectivity services to their customers throughout Ireland and enabling them to connect internationally. Enet also offers carriers a wide and innovative range of world-class fibre and wireless wholesale products and services, ranging from Managed Connectivity, Infrastructure Access, Direct Internet Access and white label broadband. About Speed Fibre Group: Speed Fibre Group, the home of telecommunicati...

Professor Diarmaid Ferriter, Professor of Modern History, UCD

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on January 7th, 2023.This podcast was generated by wondercraft.ai(00:41): GitUIOriginal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38905019&utm_source=wondercraft_ai(02:28): iPhone that fell from hole in Alaska 737 MAX flight is found, still open to MailOriginal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38907620&utm_source=wondercraft_ai(03:48): "LibreOffice is better at reading old Word files than Word"Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38906331&utm_source=wondercraft_ai(05:23): NHS to investigate Palantir influencer campaign as possible contract breachOriginal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38902983&utm_source=wondercraft_ai(07:20): Irish State announce plan to build a porn preference register for most of the EUOriginal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38902407&utm_source=wondercraft_ai(09:15): The immediate victims of a con would rather act as if the con never happenedOriginal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38903145&utm_source=wondercraft_ai(11:09): Windows XP 2024 Edition is everything I want from a new OSOriginal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38903314&utm_source=wondercraft_ai(13:11): What does the cerebellum do?Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38905898&utm_source=wondercraft_ai(14:56): Someone bought 26.9 BTC on Binance and sent it to Satoshi's dead walletOriginal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38900049&utm_source=wondercraft_ai(16:37): The New York Times Launches a Strong Case Against Microsoft and OpenAIOriginal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38900197&utm_source=wondercraft_aiThis is a third-party project, independent from HN and YC. Text and audio generated using AI, by wondercraft.ai. Create your own studio quality podcast with text as the only input in seconds at app.wondercraft.ai. Issues or feedback? We'd love to hear from you: team@wondercraft.ai

We all saw the shocking images of an actual tornado ripping through Leitrim village causing millions in damage. Some of the companies turned to microfinance to fund their reconstruction and restocking. These are low cost loans of up to €25,000 which are backed by the Irish State. Microfinance Ireland fills the gaps between what entrepreneurs can afford to lend to their business and what banks will lend which is often very little to start up companies. Speaking to Joe this morning was Des McCarthy is the Chief executive of Microfinance Ireland.

E51 The Fifth CourtHosts Peter Leonard BL and Mark Tottenham BL talk to Irish Times journalist, Ronan McGreevy, co-author a new book about the 1983 IRA kidnapping of Don Tidey called, 'The Kidnapping: A hostage, a desperate manhunt and a bloody rescue that shocked Ireland'. Now, 40 years after the event, the book comes as a timely reminder of the attempts made by the IRA to subvert the Irish State. The kidnapping also involved the murder by the IRA of two men, one a member of the Irish defence forces as well as a young Garda recruit, just three months into his training. No one has ever been convicted of these deaths.The three discuss some of the legal issues arising from the number of trials involving the alleged kidnappers and we get a sense as to why no one was brought to justice.As always Peter and Mark also discuss three new cases from the Decisis Casebook.A case involving a house that was let as a guest house but that was subsequently sub let to 36 refugees. Accommodating these refugees involved knocking down walls etc, without the house owners permission and without official planning permission. High Court judge Liam Kennedy found in favour of the sub-lessors!Harty V Harty is a case involving the sale of a family firm where an initial substantial sum was paid out on a transfer of ownership, but there was an outstanding €10m to be paid to Dr. Edmond Harty if there were a sale. The remaining shareholders argued there hadn't been a sale, but the court held there had.A third case involves a case where a borrower was evicted by a mortgagee who won an order of possession in the Circuit Court. The appellant had been physically removed from the property but appealed the earlier order. However the High Court adjudged that the eviction was appropriate and lawful. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

To talk about the politics of land in the new Irish State, Myles is joined by Terence Dooley, Tony McCarthy, Eoin Kinsella and William Nolan.

15 Years ago one of the most consequential decisions was taken by the then coalition government led by Brian Cowan. The Irish State would stand over all Irish banks - no matter how solvent they were. It would lead to Irish taxpayers taking on the debt of the fully insolvent Anglo-Irish bank and nationalising the entire banking sector. It also plunged the nation into its deepest-ever recession.We take a look at the Bank Guarantee with Aidan Donnelly from Davys and also Brian Hayes is the chief executive of the BPFI - before that, he was a minister in the FG government from 2011 but at the time of the guarantee was a finance spokesperson for the opposition.

Summary Michael McElgunn (LinkedIn) joins Andrew (Twitter; LinkedIn) to discuss intelligence in the Republic of Ireland. Michael is the Assistant Commissioner of An Garda Síochána's Crime and Security Intelligence Service.  What You'll Learn Intelligence The history of An Garda Síochána The intelligence components of the Garda The present state of Northern Ireland relations Current threats to Irish national security Reflections The value of collaboration Evolving alongside a changing world And much, much more … Quote of the Week “I think people should in general take comfort from the work that is done by intelligence services and the exceptional collaboration that there is with these services to keep people safe. And that is not just at home, that's abroad – Where we come into possession of a piece of intelligence that we feel will be a value elsewhere, we'll share that elsewhere.” – Michael McElgunn. Resources  SURFACE SKIM *SpyCasts* Kenya, East Africa, and America with African Intelligence Chief Wilson Boinett (2023)  St. Ermin's Hotel, London – The History of a Legendary Spy Site with Stephen Duffy (2023) Espionage and the Two Queens with Kent Tiernan (2023)  The IRA, The Troubles & Intelligence with Eleanor Williams and Thomas Leahy (2022) *Beginner Resources* A Brief History of Ireland, T. Lambert, Local Histories, n.d. [Short article]  Our History, An Garda Síochána, n.d. [Web page] The Troubles, J. Wallenfeldt, Encyclopedia Britannica [Encyclopedia entry] DEEPER DIVE Books We Don't Know Ourselves: A Personal History of Modern Ireland, F. O'Toole (Liveright, 2023) Say Nothing: A True Story of Murder and Memory in Northern Ireland, P. R. Keefe (Anchor, 2020)  Policing Twentieth Century Ireland: A History of An Garda Síochána, V. Conway (Routledge, 2013) The Guarding of Ireland – The Garda Síochána and the Irish State 1960–2014: A History of the Irish Police Force, C. Brady (Gill Books, 2014) Primary Sources  Gárda Síochána (Temporary Provisions) Act (1923) Royal Irish Constabulary Office Preliminary Arrangements for Disbandment, Garda Archives (1922)  Orders for the Guidance of the Troops, Garda Archives (1919) National Union of Police and Prison Officers, National Museum of Ireland (1919)  The Police and the Nation, Garda Archives (1916)  1916 Proclamation, National Museum of Ireland (1916) 

Episode 131 On this weeks The Week at Work, Clare O Connor and Lorna Bogue discuss: Housing LDA and Land Hoarding 1.5 billion underspend on housing budget Ireland argue against ECHR right to clean, healthy, sustainable environment Class Politics Irish Neutrality Garda bodycams and facial recognition software Stardust Inquest starts tomorrow ....and More!

This week on Playback. Wrap up – the cold snap has landed. We mark the centenary of the Irish State – but where is the parade?And the royal dirt - dished. All on Playback presented by Sinéad Mooney.

Today marks 100 years since the foundation of the Irish Free State. Mark Henry, Author of ‘In Fact: An Optimist's Guide to Ireland at 100' argues in the Journal.ie today that we've come a long way in that 100 years and that Ireland is now one of the very best countries in the world to live in. What do you think? Is Ireland in 2022 worth celebrating? Andrea was joined by listeners on Lunchtime Live to discuss…

This week, 100 years ago, the Irish state came into being… To discuss this in detail, Kieran was joined by Ronan McGreevy, Irish Times journalist and author of 'Great Hatred: The Assassination of Field Marshal Sir Henry Wilson MP'...

UCD will host a national conference to mark the 100th anniversary of the new Irish state coming into effect on the 6th December 1922. It will explore the process of state formation amid an ongoing civil war and uncertainty over the future of the border with Northern Ireland. Leading academics will also discuss the evolution of the institutions of the state. Joining Dr Patrick Geoghegan to discuss this is: Dr Conor Mulvagh who lectures in the School of History at UCD with special responsibility for the Decade of Centenaries, one of the organisers of the conference; Dr Mary McAuliffe, Director of Gender Studies at UCD and her books include a biography of Margaret Skinnider; and Dr Thomas Mohr who lectures in the UCD Sutherland School of Law, is the author of 'Guardian of the Treaty', and is a Vice-President of the Irish Legal History Society.

Clare's Fine Gael Senator says an acknowledgement the Irish State 'didn't act in a timely manner' over Thalidomide needs to be acknowledged by the State. The morning sickness drug was removed from markets in the 1960s after it became linked to major pregnancy defects. Around 40 survivors are still currently living in Ireland, with around three quarters of these understood be in receipt of an ex-gratia payment from the Government. Ennistymon-based Fine Gael Senator Martin Conway, who's his party's Seanad spokesperson on health, says the State needs to own up to its responsibilities.

Enet has announced a significant new €50m+ investment in fibre networks in multiple locations around Ireland. The expansion will see Enet's fibre network connect major commercial, retail and industrial zones to increase the availability of high-capacity data transport for data centre connectivity, mobile data traffic and mission-critical business traffic. The new €50m+ investment will allow network operators and more business premises across the country to directly connect to Enet's comprehensive telecommunications network. Key focus areas include: Over 45km of new fibre networks along the north and west of Dublin city, connecting all of the major business parks which are home to the various IDC's, telehouses and multinational companies as well as 25 Dublin data centres. Enet is increasing fibre availability on the route, known as the T50, by 900% and will allow for 700 terabytes of traffic A new 10km network in North Dublin will provide fibre connections to 1000+ businesses while a new 4km backhaul and fibre infrastructure in West Dublin will provide the ability to connect a further 500+ businesses to a new high-speed fibre network — The installation of ‘Fibre To The Tower' in a range of locations — New locations are made available on Enet's customer self-serve portal as they near completion Enet, which is part of the Speed Fibre Group, has already expanded its Dublin Metro network by over 18.5km between January to May this year in areas such as Rathmines in Dublin 6 and Westmoreland Street in Dublin 2. Enet operates the largest alternative wholesale telecoms network in Ireland, which comprises of over 5,600 Km of fibre infrastructure, including the Irish State's Metropolitan Area Networks (MANs), proprietary metro networks, a unique dark fibre backhaul infrastructure, as well as one of the largest licensed wireless networks in the country. Taken together, Enet's infrastructure creates a fully integrated nationwide telecommunications network that is truly open access in nature, enabling retail service providers and network operators to deliver world-class data connectivity services to their customers throughout Ireland and enabling them to connect internationally. Enet also offers carriers a wide and innovative range of world-class fibre and wireless wholesale products and services, ranging from Managed Connectivity, Infrastructure Access, Direct Internet Access and white label broadband. Peter McCarthy, Group CEO of Speed Fibre Group, the home of Enet, said: “We're delighted to announce this significant new investment as it allows us to deliver the highest quality network connections in crucial commercial areas in Ireland. By implementing critical fibre networks to provide high bandwidth telecommunications connectivity to our wholesale customers, we are supporting thousands of businesses and consumers across the country with the network capacity they need to grow and prosper. By further enabling our world-class telecommunications networks, this investment will also really cement Ireland's position as an ideal location for businesses to operate in.” Today's new investment announcement by Enet follows an agreement earlier this year with EXA Infrastructure to deliver international optical network connections between Dublin and datacentres in Europe and across the North Atlantic. The partnership covers over 40 key priority datacentres in Europe including Frankfurt, London, Amsterdam, Paris, Marseilles and Milan as well as a variety of North American routes on the EXA Infrastructure network, which is now the largest dedicated digital infrastructure platform connecting the two continents. Importantly, this service from Enet also facilitates the delivery of large volumes of data for datacentre workloads, including ultra-high-definition video content, Internet of Things applications and the continual rise in the usage of cloud-based applications. Enet is a part of Speed Fibre Group, the home of telecommunication businesses Enet a...

So said Michael Collins, yet despite his central role in the development of the Irish nationalism from which the Irish State would emerge, Arthur Griffith has had to settle for a side-line role in the national historical memory. How fair or accurate are accusations of anti-Semitism, misogyny or ‘selling the pass' at the Treaty negotiations? How stands his reputation today a century on from his untimely death, aged 51, on 12 August 1922? To address these and related questions listen to History Ireland editor, Tommy Graham, in discussion with Frank Barry, Brian Hanley, Colum Kenny and Margaret Ward. The Hedge School series of podcasts is produced by History Ireland and the Wordwell Group. For more information or to subscribe, visit historyireland.com This podcast is supported by the Department of Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media under the Decade of Centenaries 2012-2023 Initiative.

I'm thrilled to have the Kavanagh sisters back. These three women are an inspiring and powerful voice of hope, compassion and resilience. And they have an incredible sense of humor! I love them!In their own words:"We are three sisters born into a large family of ten children in the late-1950's early 1960's in a disadvantaged area of Dublin, where our father sexually abused us daily from age three or four right up to our late teens. In 1989, we made the decision to bring charges against our father and, in 1990; the Irish State took a successful case against him. He was convicted and sentenced to a term of seven years and was released having served five.In 1992 we took part in a ground-breaking RTE documentary series entitled Tuesday File, Silent Scream (produced by Moya Doherty). Up to that point, RTE programs on child abuse always had the interviewee's face hidden and voices distorted, but we openly volunteered to share our story and despite the attempted injunction by our imprisoned father, the documentary was aired on RTE in October 1992. The program won a Jacobs Award in 1992 and early the next year we were nominated for the Harvey's/ Sunday Independent Irish Women of the Year. This program also went on to be used as a training tool for professionals dealing with abuse victims and won the US National Women's Studies Association Award in 1994.In September 2011 the book of our childhood experience entitled ‘Click, Click' was published by the Hachette Book Group and went straight to number one in the Irish non-fiction bestseller list. In 2020 it was re-published under a new title ‘Our Father's Secret' in the UK by the Orion Publishing Group. The book has been described as “a powerful, emotional and sometimes harrowing story of childhood sexual abuse.”I'm thrilled to have the Kavanagh sisters back. These three women are an inspiring and powerful voice of hope, compassion and resilience. And they have an incredible sense of humor! I love them!In This EpisodeThe Kavanagh Sisters' WebsiteWhy Go Back?, Paula Kavanagh, Joyce Kavanagh, June KavanaghClick, Click, Paula Kavanagh, Joyce Kavanagh, June KavanaghThe Kavanagh Sisters' PodcastThe Kavanagh Sisters on FacebookNeale Diamond WalshGary ZukovOprahThis show is part of the Spreaker Prime Network, if you are interested in advertising on this podcast, contact us at https://www.spreaker.com/show/5739761/advertisement

The global security environment is changing rapidly. Not only are the threats greater, but they are more complex and more kaleidoscopic. Climate change, Cyber-threats, terrorism, as well as a revanchist Russia have made the world a more dangerous place to live in. To meet these challenges, the Irish Defence Forces are playing greater variety of roles in order to protect the Irish state and serve on crisis management missions. On 9 February 2022, the Commission on the Defence Forces released its report examining the threats the Irish State will face, and made recommendations ranging from funding, and capability acquisition to strategic HR, on how to enhance the Defence Forces. This panel discusses the Irish threat environment and analyses the recommendations made by the Commission in its report.    About the Speaker:  Renata Dwan has been the Deputy Director and Senior Executive Officer of Chatham House since 2020. From 2018 until 2020, she was Director of the United Nations Institute for Disarmament Research (UNIDIR) in Geneva. During her years in the UN, Dr Dwan worked on peace operations and complex emergencies in Afghanistan, the Democratic Republic of Congo, Haiti, Mali and Syria.   Ben Tonra is a professor of International Relations at UCD School of Politics and International Relations. There, Professor Tonra teaches, researches and publishes in European foreign, security and defence policy, Irish foreign, security and defence policy and International Relations theory.

You might have seen this week that Octogenarian Anti-War Activists, Ken Mayers and Tarak Kauff were found guilty of interfering with the operation, management or safety of Shannon airport. Joining me to discuss this and their treatment by the Irish State is spokesperson for Shannonwatch, Edward Horgan. We discuss the fine of €10,000 that was imposed in addition to them already having received other penalties. Edward talks about the anti-war movement and Ireland's neutrality through the prisim of our role in assisting the US War Machine. You can support Shannonwatch here: https://www.gofundme.com/f/u7p6wj-support-vets-fighting-us-war-machine-in-ireland?fbclid=IwAR0-CnXnaqmBoKRxOFKW5wDN38MrtcVL8lCrX7ml2ES-jFYWbeRZNY1Jupw Join us at patreon.com/tortoiseshack

In this Reboot Republic podcast I talk to Siobhan O'Donoghue, founder and director of Uplift, about the Ukraine humanitarian crisis, and how we can, and must provide homes -not tents and warehouses -for Ukraine refugees, and provide homes for those homeless in Ireland already. We discuss how through proper leadership and action like during COVID, the Government and Irish State could use the massive number of vacant holiday homes, and wider vacant and derelict property. We could direct private construction to do up that property quickly into homes. It is about the political will. Siobhan outlines what you can do - Uplift have a petition set up - please sign it and share:https://action.uplift.ie/campaigns/empty-homes-open-letter Join us patreon.com/tortoiseshack

Tanya Stephan, Director of The Missing Children (Apple TV and Amazon Prime). At the Tuam mother and baby home in Ireland, 796 children, born to unwed mothers, have disappeared. The bodies of some have been found in a sewage tank. In this feature-length edition of the Bafta-winning Exposure strand, The Missing Children tells the stories of some of the children who survived life at the home, as well as of the search to uncover the truth about what happened to those who've disappeared. Some still recall the cruelty of the nuns. Others were adopted to America and are only now discovering relations in Ireland and the UK. Through the personal narratives of survivors, adoptees, and the women who pieced together the evidence that has shaken Ireland to its core, leading to an unprecedented apology from the Irish State, The Missing Children uncovers the truth of a shocking story which continues to affect the lives of many in Ireland, the US and the UK. Podcast host and reporter Jacques Peterson reviews Byron Baes on Netflix. Reality Life with Kate CaseyPatreon: http://www.patreon.com/katecaseyCameo: https://cameo.com/katecaseyTwitter: https://twitter.com/katecaseyInstagram: http://www.instagram.com/katecaseycaTik Tok: http://www.tiktok.com/itskatecaseyClubhouse: @katecasey Facebook Group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/113157919338245Amazon.com: www.amazon.com/shop/katecasey Make sure you're taking advantage of the opportunity to earn something back for all those Pampers you're going through. Download the Pampers Club app and start turning diapers into rewards. Earn $5 PampersCash with your first three product scans. Download Pampers Club app today and get access to exclusive Pampers coupons and more!”See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Greg talks with Claire McGettrick and Mari Steed about Ireland's history of adoption and original birth records---which have always been public records---and the decades-long fight for Irish-born adopted people to secure the right to obtain all records related to their own identities and history. You can read more about this issue and Claire and Mari's work at Adoption Rights Alliance, which is also a partner in the rights-based research work of the CLANN Project. And check out Claire and Mari's (and others') recent book, Ireland and the Magdalene Laundries: A Campaign for Justice, which provides "an overview of the social, cultural and political contexts of institutional survivor activism, the Irish State's response culminating in the McAleese Report, and the formation of the Justice for Magdalenes campaign, a volunteer-run survivor advocacy group."

This week I set down and spoke with experienced author, Stephen Manning, publisher and public speaker. Holder of several businesses and academic qualifications including a 2003 PhD in Psychology, and an MSc in Comparative Religions. Currently the Administrator of the Integrity Ireland Association seeking to bring 'Justice, Transparency & Accountability to the institutions of the Irish State.. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

In this episode Danny Houlihan takes a historical journey back on the old Lartique Mono Railway System which ran from Listowel to Ballybunion from 1888-1924. Our history is unique and highlights an area which was developing as a seaside resort from 1888 to 1924 through the times of the Mono Rail System its staff, landlords,parish priests and the development of a new Irish State all played a part in the railway systems fortune. The Lartique had many happy days and happy customers but due to the civil war age of the train coupled with modern transport heralded the end of this unique system. This research is from Danny's book entitled Ballybunion & Its Railway History 1888 to 1924 (Out of Print) during his research for the book many documents for reference pictures Lawerence Collection were looked at consulted and maps from the 1919 period,railway magazines and The Strand Magazine 1898, numerous newspaper clippings of the time and local lore and stories just to cite a few were consulted and in the public domain. It should be noted there are many books in the public domain which cover technical data for the Hunslet engines etc and are well worth a read. This episode is not a definitive history but is yet again a taste of our unique history which for many years was not told or related and is just a guide to the massive history that is The Lartigue. In another episode more information will be added to the history.

Feargal O'Rourke is Managing Partner of PwC Ireland. He has served in various leadership roles in PwC EMEA and PwC Ireland since his admission as a partner in 1996. He has been appointed by several Irish Governments to various roles. He served for 7 years on the board of Forfás, the Irish State body responsible for the development of Industrial policy and of science and technology in Ireland. Feargal was appointed in 2008 to the Commission on Taxation. From 2014 to 2020, Feargal was a member of the board of the American Chamber of Commerce in Ireland, the leading representative body at both the Government and Industry levels for the 700 US companies based in Ireland. Feargal holds a First-Class Honours Bachelor of Commerce degree and a Diploma in Professional Accounting, both from University College Dublin. He is a Fellow of the Institute of Chartered Accountants in Ireland and an Associate of the Irish Taxation Institute, having obtained 1st place nationally in the final exam. He has lectured and written extensively on taxation and business and is regularly sought after by Irish politicians and officials on a wide variety of commercial matters. Today, Feargal joins me to talk about leadership, resilience, agile work practices, and the power of culture in the workplace. He talks about the effects of COVID-19 on his leadership style, and he notes the importance of honesty, transparency, and humility.  He highlights the power of commonly held values and of a willingness to admit your mistakes. We discuss the relationship between physical and mental health and note the importance of health in general. We discuss the hybrid work model and its potential success once it suits team-mates, suits clients, and suits the business. We look forward to hybrid work models resulting in happier employees, attracting people back to the workforce, and geographic location ceasing to be important. As a leader, Feargal knows that physicality is the bedrock for mental & emotional resilience. He advises on the importance of staying active, fit & supple. He notes the power of staying grounded and explains why he believes you shouldn't look back and ask, “what if?” “Culture is what gets you there. Culture is the glue that binds. Culture is what differentiates one organisation from another.”– Feargal O'Rourke This week on In the Doctor's Chair The meaning and power of culture The power of transparency Why you should recognise and admit your mistakes The pricelessness of physical and mental health Why even the wrong decisions have a purpose In the Doctor's Chair Thanks for listening to In the Doctor's Chair, the show where you'll hear conversations that share life lessons, health habits, and leadership practices that focus on positive psychology, lifestyle medicine, and ways for you to live with more vitality. If you enjoyed this episode, please subscribe to the show and leave a comment wherever you listen to your podcasts. For more resources to help you to live with more vitality, please visit my website. Apple Podcasts I TuneIn I Google Play I Stitcher I Spotify The post Feargal O'Rourke: Culture with a Sense of Belonging is a Powerful Force appeared first on Mark Rowe.

Feargal O'Rourke is Managing Partner of PwC Ireland. He has served in various leadership roles in PwC EMEA and PwC Ireland since his admission as a partner in 1996. He has been appointed by several Irish Governments to various roles. He served for 7 years on the board of Forfás, the Irish State body responsible for the development of Industrial policy and of science and technology in Ireland. Feargal was appointed in 2008 to the Commission on Taxation. From 2014 to 2020, Feargal was a member of the board of the American Chamber of Commerce in Ireland, the leading representative body at both the Government and Industry levels for the 700 US companies based in Ireland. Feargal holds a First-Class Honours Bachelor of Commerce degree and a Diploma in Professional Accounting, both from University College Dublin. He is a Fellow of the Institute of Chartered Accountants in Ireland and an Associate of the Irish Taxation Institute, having obtained 1st place nationally in the final exam. He has lectured and written extensively on taxation and business and is regularly sought after by Irish politicians and officials on a wide variety of commercial matters. Today, Feargal joins me to talk about leadership, resilience, agile work practices, and the power of culture in the workplace. He talks about the effects of COVID-19 on his leadership style, and he notes the importance of honesty, transparency, and humility.  He highlights the power of commonly held values and of a willingness to admit your mistakes. We discuss the relationship between physical and mental health and note the importance of health in general. We discuss the hybrid work model and its potential success once it suits team-mates, suits clients, and suits the business. We look forward to hybrid work models resulting in happier employees, attracting people back to the workforce, and geographic location ceasing to be important. As a leader, Feargal knows that physicality is the bedrock for mental & emotional resilience. He advises on the importance of staying active, fit & supple. He notes the power of staying grounded and explains why he believes you shouldn't look back and ask, “what if?” “Culture is what gets you there. Culture is the glue that binds. Culture is what differentiates one organisation from another.”– Feargal O'Rourke This week on In the Doctor's Chair The meaning and power of culture The power of transparency Why you should recognise and admit your mistakes The pricelessness of physical and mental health Why even the wrong decisions have a purpose In the Doctor's Chair Thanks for listening to In the Doctor's Chair, the show where you'll hear conversations that share life lessons, health habits, and leadership practices that focus on positive psychology, lifestyle medicine, and ways for you to live with more vitality. If you enjoyed this episode, please subscribe to the show and leave a comment wherever you listen to your podcasts. For more resources to help you to live with more vitality, please visit my website. Apple Podcasts I TuneIn I Google Play I Stitcher I Spotify The post Feargal O'Rourke: Culture with a Sense of Belonging is a Powerful Force appeared first on Mark Rowe.

Feargal O'Rourke is Managing Partner of PwC Ireland. He has served in various leadership roles in PwC EMEA and PwC Ireland since his admission as a partner in 1996. He has been appointed by several Irish Governments to various roles. He served for 7 years on the board of Forfás, the Irish State body responsible for the development of Industrial policy and of science and technology in Ireland. Feargal was appointed in 2008 to the Commission on Taxation. From 2014 to 2020, Feargal was a member of the board of the American Chamber of Commerce in Ireland, the leading representative body at both Government and Industry level for the 700 US companies based in Ireland. Feargal holds a First-Class Honours Bachelor of Commerce degree and a Diploma in Professional Accounting, both from University College Dublin. He is a Fellow of the Institute of Chartered Accountants in Ireland and an Associate of the Irish Taxation Institute, having obtained 1st place nationally in the final exam. He has lectured and written extensively on taxation and business  and is regularly sought after  by Irish politicians and officials on a wide variety of commercial matters. Today, Feargal joins me to talk about leadership, resilience, agile work practices and the power of culture in the workplace. He talks about the effects of COVID-19 on his leadership style, and he notes the importance of honesty, transparency, and humility.  He highlights the power of commonly held values and of a willingness to admit your mistakes. We discuss the relationship between physical and mental health and note the importance of health in general. We discuss the hybrid work model and its potential success once it suits team-mates, suits clients and suits the business. We look forward to hybrid work models resulting in happier employees, attracting people back to the workforce, and geographic location ceasing to be important. As a leader, Feargal knows that physicality is the bedrock for mental & emotional resilience. He advises on the importance of staying active, fit & supple. He notes the power of staying grounded and explains why he believes you shouldn't look back and ask, “what if?” “Culture is what gets you there. Culture is the glue that binds. Culture is what differentiates one organisation from another.” - Feargal O'Rourke This week on In the Doctor's Chair The meaning and power of culture The power of transparency Why you should recognise and admit your mistakes The pricelessness of physical and mental health Why even the wrong decisions have a purpose In the Doctor's Chair Thanks for listening to In the Doctor's Chair, the show where you'll hear conversations that share life lessons, health habits, and leadership practices that focus on positive psychology, lifestyle medicine, and ways for you to live with more vitality. If you enjoyed this episode, please subscribe to the show and leave a comment wherever you listen to your podcasts. For more resources to help you to live with more vitality, please visit my website. Apple Podcasts I TuneIn I Google Play I Stitcher I Spotify

Vice Admiral Mark Mellett, the first naval officer in the Irish State to serve as Chief of Staff, having previously served as Deputy Chief of Staff and Chief of Navy. Holder of a Doctorate in Political Science and a Masters in Government and Public Policy, Admiral Mellett has a keen interest in research with a focus on European security, innovation, diversity and values-based leadership Admiral Mellett share his leadership insights and the lessons from a career in serving the public good for over 40 years of military service. In this refreshing podcast, we cover leadership related topics and valuable nuggets  on humility & ego, what is means to cede power to gain power,  vulnerability, mental health, collaboration & innovation, reciprocity and what authority actually means.

The conclusion of Charlie Bird's incredible account of the 1979 attempt to blackmail the Irish State.

This week we are joined by Martin McMahon who has spent over two decades exposing this trend that not only allows employers to avoid tax liabilities for workers, but is an aspect of a sick "Status Quo" that both Revenue and Social Welfare have colluded to sustain despite how damaging it is to both the individuals concerned and the economy of our county. Martin has written a book on this, which is available here, and he recently appeared before the Public Accounts Committee in government buildings to expose the reality of this awful situation that hurts workers, while allowing scrupulous businesses to avoid liability and responsibility to those same workers. Martin reveals to Barbara that this could be solved overnight, but the vested interests involved just don't want to address it, tackle it or remedy it. Workers suffer, while corporations profit. It's how Ireland works and it's WRONG! Listen in and please share, thank you. This is a "Red Talks" podcast series, produced by the Red Network which is an integral part of People Before Profit.

Niall speaks to Will Geddes about the HSE cyber attack. With over 25 years experience in the Specialist Security sector, Will has consulted clients across the world on a wide-diversity of risk and threat related matters, personally operating and working within developed, emerging and hostile countries across the world. Leading his team of experts, many drawn from former Special & Elite Military Forces, Government, Law Enforcement and Intelligence Agencies, the sheer diversity of projects involved have varied from dealing with extortions and blackmails to high-risk protection projects, counter terrorism, intelligence gathering to multi-jurisdictional investigations and pursuits of complex frauds.  A regular speaker at international conferences and industry gatherings, he is also a frequent guest, analyst and commentator for international press and media on international security and terrorism incidents, featuring on BBC Breakfast,  Good Morning Britain, SKY News, CNN, ITN, Channel 4 News, The Times Newspaper, The Telegraph, New York Times, Russia Today, Economist, Radio 4 Today, Bloomberg, Al Jazeera, to name a few..

The HSE and the health department were hit by a Conti ransomware cyberattack last Thursday and Friday, which has been described as possibly the most significant cybercrime attack on the Irish State. As we know the attackers managed to take around 700GB of data and encrypt it. So what might have happened and how do we deal with ransomware cyberattacks? Ronan talks to Stephen Bowes BSI Global Practice Director about this and more. Stephen talks to Ronan about the Conti ransomware cyberattack, what might have happened, how to prepare for a ransomware attack and what to do if you get hit by a ransomware attack. More about Stephen: Stephen is the BSI Global Practice Director (Data Management and Security Technologies). Previously he was their Head of Technology (Cybersecurity and Information Resilience), and their Head of Solutions Delivery & IT (Cybersecurity and Information Resilience). Stephen is also a highly experienced, accredited and award winning senior technology leader with a demonstrable track record of thought leadership and commercial acumen assisting organisations in increasing their cybersecurity posture and managing risk via the application of the appropriate technology, skills, processes and people management.

On Friday came the news of what’s been described as possibly the most significant cybercrime attack on the Irish State ever. HSE IT systems could take days to return to normal following the attack. So what are those responsible after? A huge payout or simply to create chaos? We’re joined by Pat Moran, Cybersecurity Leader at PWC Ireland.

Father-of-two Bobby Ryan was a 'happy-go-lucky' character, known across Tipperary and beyond as a popular DJ under the stage name 'Mr Moonlight.'But Bobby's name soon became synonymous with tragedy and intrigue after his life was brutally cut short in a baffling murder-mystery in 2011.After his body was found in a disused slurry pit in 2013, more questions emerged - and what followed was a tale of lovers scorned, disputes over land, and what turned out to be the longest murder trial in the history of the Irish State.Bobby's heartbroken daughter Michelle spoke to this podcast about the loss of her father, her unanswered questions, and her quest to keep her father's killer, Patrick Quirke, behind bars. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Ossian Smyth, Minister of State for Communications, who is across the National Cyber Security Centre on what measures are being implemented to deal with the HSE cyber attack

in the first of our series of RED Network podcasts, Barbara Smyth is joined by author James O'Toole to discuss his most recent book The Irish State and Revolution which was published in April 2021. Socialist activist Margaret O'Regan also joins Barbara to talk about the struggle for access to contraception in 1970's Ireland and the role played by Margaret and others in this amazing challenge to the church and establishment Ireland. We hope you enjoy this episode and continue to listen to our future episodes of RED Talks.

The third keynote at the 2020/21 WHAI Annual conference was given by Dr Sinead Kennedy (Maynooth) at the WHAI Annual conference.

Episode 42: This week we're straight talking the Irish State of Mind. For St Patrick's Day we're not going all toora-loora but we are talking about what makes the Irish.  Eimear joins us as we discuss the Irish inferiority complex that comes from post-colonialism, how that feeds into our sense of humour, the need to apologise and our inability to speak the Irish language. We also discuss the impact of the Catholic church, the control it exerted, instilling shame around sex and women, the beatings in schools, our love of story telling and of course we'd have to discuss... the demon drink! We also have our smiles & riles. The Irish accents have Eimear smiling and she's riled about the Meghan & Harry interview, Peter is riled about Fastway's so called "service" but a parenting landmark event has him smiling. Meanwhile being the ever professional psychotherapist, Allan asks the big questions "To pee, or not to pee..." in front of your partner, do you or don't you? Follow Straight Talking Mental Health on Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, email hello@stmhpodcast or check out www.stmhpodcast.com

This week, the Irish Taoiseach described the findings of an official report into decades of abuse of women and children at mother and baby homes as a “dark, difficult and very shameful chapter of very recent Irish history.” The report acknowledged the harsh treatment was supported and condoned by the Irish State and the country’s churches. Those who survived the homes battled with long running prejudices and emotional scars, finds Chris Paige. Indonesian airlines have one of the worst safety records in Asia. The fatal crash on January 9th has again raised questions about how safe the country’s airlines are and brought back painful memories. The BBC’s Asia editor, Rebecca Henschke, reports. There’s been a sluggish start to Covid vaccinations in many parts of the EU complicated by public resistance and disinformation. In the Czech Republic, anti-vaccination activists made international headlines this week by wearing yellow Stars of David, claiming they were being ostracised just as Jews were in Nazi Germany. Rob Cameron has more. Somalia has been in a state of conflict for three decades and this is reflected in media coverage of the region. And yet, life goes on, with even a construction boom in Mogadishu. Mary Harper, the BBC’s Africa editor found that Somalis are tiring of stereotypes about their country as a place of violence and suffering. In Nova Scotia - the lobster season usually starts late in November and finishes in May – and between those months, most fishermen are not allowed to catch the crustaceans. But thanks to a treaty, signed with the British in 1761, the Mi’kmaq people are exempt from this and can fish all year round. One businessman is doing rather well out of it much to the consternation of those who do not have these rights, finds Greg Mercer. Presenter: Kate Adie Producer: Serena Tarling

jQuery(document).ready(function(){ cab.clickify(); }); Original Podcast with clickable words https://tinyurl.com/yxkgfmbg "A sad, difficult, shameful chapter in our history" - Taoiseach. "Caibidil dhuairc, dheacair, náireach inár stair" - Taoiseach. Taoiseach Micheál Martin said that the report on maternity and infant homes describes a sad, difficult and shameful chapter in the history of this country in recent years. Dúirt an Taoiseach Micheál Martin go gcuirtear síos sa tuarascáil faoi árais máithreacha agus naíonan ar chaibidil dhuairc, dheacair agus náireach i stair na tíre seo le blianta beaga anuas. It is a story that has had serious consequences for many people, he said. Is scéal é a raibh torthaí tromchúiseacha aige ar go leor daoine, a dúirt sé. He argued that the report revealed a systemically extremely cold and oppressive culture against women, especially those who had unmarried children. Mhaígh sé gur nocht an tuarascáil cultúr a bhí thar a bheith fuafuar agus leatromach ar bhonn córasach ar mhná, go háirithe orthu siúd a rug leanaí gan iad a bheith pósta. The Taoiseach said that no foreigners have pushed us on that regime, we as a society have betrayed ourselves. Dúirt an Taoiseach nár bhrúigh aon dream eachtrach an réimeas sin orainn, is muid féin mar shochaí a rinne an feall orainn féin. Sinn Féin leader Mary Lou McDonald said the State was clearly to blame for the injustice done to women and children in the homes. Dúirt ceannaire Shinn Féin Mary Lou McDonald gur léir gur ar an Stát atá an milleán faoin éagóir a rinneadh ar mhná agus leanaí sna hárais. The Taoiseach's apology will be measured by the subsequent action taken, she said. Tomhasfar leithscéal an Taoisigh de réir an leorghnímh ina dhiaidh, a dúirt sí. Sinn Féin leader Mary Lou McDonald called for records, including birth certificates, to be made available to occupants. Ceannaire Shinn Féin, Mary Lou McDonald Diarr sí go gcuirfí taifid, teastais bhreithe ina measc, ar fáil do dhaoine a bhí sna hárais. Labor Party children's affairs spokeswoman Senator Ivana Bacik claimed that while this is a difficult day there is also relief for those who have suffered persecution. Mhaígh urlabhraí gnóthaí leanaí Pháirtí an Lucht Oibre, an Seanadóir Ivana Bacik, cé gur lá deacair é seo go bhfuil faoiseamh le fáil ann freisin don dream a dfhulaing an ghéarleanúint. She said the abuse of women and children in Irish State institutions was a devastating one. Dúirt sí gur scéal millteanach atá sa drochíde a tugadh do mhná agus leanaí i bhforais Stáit in Éirinn.

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Gerry Adams, one of the most important figures in the history of the Irish State, joins us in the studio for episode #103 of Paddy Holohan’s No Shame Podcast. A man who needs little introduction on these shores, Gerry is an Irish Republican politician, current Louth TD, the former president of Sinn Féin & was an instrumental figure behind the Northern Ireland Peace process during the 1990’s. There are so many topics up for discussion on this week's show with Gerry & Paddy covering a lot of ground in a landmark episode for the No Shame Podcast. Some of the key areas during the 55 minute conversation include, the Ballymurphy massacres, internment, Gerry's friendship with Bobby Sands, the Hunger strikes, British Collusion, the assassination attempt on Gerry's life, Nelson Mandela, the peace process, Martin McGuinness, Brexit, Irish Unity, the cook book & so much more. In a standout moment, Gerry acknowledges that there were killings at the hands of the IRA during the Troubles & states that Republicans are trying to atone for what they did, something that can't be said for the British Government. In a powerful closing statement, Gerry discusses the prospect of Irish Unity & how it's finally achievable through peaceful means for the first time ever. This is an option that didn't exist for Patrick Pearse, Michael Collins or Bobby Sands. Having served as president of Sinn Féin for over 35 years, Adams will be calling time on a truly remarkable political career in 2020 when the next general election is announced. Until then he is still working actively in the community. He was on the doors in Tallaght last Tuesday canvasing for Sinn Féin candidate Mark Ward. It's quite fitting that the podcast finishes on the subject of the Presidential office. Where one beard bows out another one enters the fray with Paddy Holohan stepping up his bid to take the Áras next time out. We can't be sure but we think, on a technicality, Paddy got an unofficial, indirect but albeit solid endorsement from big GerryA #FairDig #SeenThemGiven #Paddy4Prez We'd like to finish by giving a very special thanks to Gerry & the party of Sinn Féin for appearing on the No Shame Podcast. This was one of Paddy's top three guests when he started the show over two years ago & we promise this one lives up to its billing. The full podcast is available now across all the usual platforms including Youtube, iTunes & Spotify, enjoy.  

In her new book ‘Republic of Shame’, journalist Caelainn Hogan examines Ireland’s mother-and-baby homes and the collusion of the Catholic Church with the Irish State. Personal accounts from survivors, nuns and others bring the truth forward for all to see. In today’s podcast, Róisín speaks to Caelainn about the stories of the women she spoke to, the lack of understanding of the suffering they endured and the appalling legacy of Ireland’s mother-and-baby homes.

Guest: Gordon Tobin - Vice President, Commercial Sales @G2 (Formerly @Headspace, @LinkedIn) Guest Background: Gordon Tobin is the Vice President, Commercial Sales at G2. Prior to joining G2, Gordong was the Director of Enterprise Sales at Headspace. Before joining Headspace, Gordon was at LinkedIn for about nine years. He had six roles in four different offices spanning three different continents. Two of his most recent roles were, one is the Global Head of the Business Leadership Program, and most recently he was a sales leader in the Sales Solutions Business. About a year and a half after Gordon joined LinkedIn, they IPO'd in 2011, and then they were purchased by Microsoft for $27 billion in 2016. Gordon is based in San Francisco, California, originally from Dublin, Ireland. Guest Links: LinkedIn Episode Summary: In this episode, we cover: - The Prioritization, Mindset and Methodology of Building Your Culture Standard (Set, Demo, Hold) - The Talent Management Mindset - Interview, Hire, Coach - Leadership Cadence - Priorities, Time Spend, Meetings - Best Practices for Stakeholder Management   Full Interview Transcript: Naber:  Hello friends around the world. My name is Brandon Naber. Welcome to the Naberhood, where we have switched on, fun discussions with some of the most brilliant, successful, experienced, talented and highly skilled Sales and Marketing minds on the planet, from the world's fastest growing companies. Enjoy! Naber:  Hey there, team. Today we have my good buddy Gordon Tobin on the show out of San Francisco, California, originally from Dublin, Ireland. Gordon is the Director of Enterprise Sales at Headspace. Headspace has a $320 million valuation, they've raised $75 million in capital. Before joining Headspace, Gordon was at LinkedIn for about nine years. He had six roles in four different offices spanning three different continents. Two of his most recent roles were, one is the Global Head of the Business Leadership Program, and most recently he was a sales leader in the Sales Solutions Business. About a year and a half after Gordon joined LinkedIn, they IPO'd in 2011, and then they were purchased by Microsoft for $27 billion in 2016. Naber:  Gordon Tobin, awesome to have you on the show. Very privileged. Gordon Tobin:  The pleasure is all mine. The pleasure is all mine, I can assure you. Naber:  Cheers Buddy. The pleasantries are not just surface level, one of my favorite people. So what I want to do today is run through a bunch of different stuff. One of the more insightful business minds I've been around, had the privilege to work with, both on a few different projects, but also observe from both close and afar. What I want to do is probably start going through a little bit of your background, your personal journey. You've got a really cool, interesting family background. You've been all over the world, traveled all over the world. I've got an insert in here where one of the conversations you and I had long time ago helped change my life for the better, which is great. And we'll talk about all that stuff, but why don't we start maybe five, seven minutes around what Gordon Tobin was growing up. Maybe what you were like growing up as a kid, in school, then we can get into some interesting things you were interested in, or some jobs you had, etc. Gordon Tobin:  Yeah, for sure, and thanks again for having me on. I think, where should I start? Dickens - "I Am Born."? I think, for me the first, well my early memories, if you want to go back that far, are very, very happy ones up until about the age of about six or seven. Six or seven, won't go into all the drama, but parents parted ways, things financially didn't go so good, and I think at that age, very early on, I had to learn how to be self reliant, and self sufficient, and also had to learn how to adjust quite a bit because there was a lot of change in my life, because of the personal circumstances outside of my control over the next 10 years. So if I was in characterized Gordon, up to seven as very happy go lucky little child, from seven to 17, 18, I was a wild child, not a great academic...And so for all the folks who maybe didn't get an a plus plus in applied mathematics or economics, I can assure you that that's not the be all and end all. Whilst I was not a great academic, I think I thoroughly enjoyed my education. I had so much fun in school, when I chose to attend. And I think the turning point for me, was when I had just finished up the equivalent of my leaving cert in Ireland - by the way, I'm an Irishman, so if there's a difference between what you you hear and what you see on my LinkedIn profile, it's because my mother is from Trinidad and Tobago, which I'll touch on in a minute. I think for me, at 17, it was a turning point where I could have gone down one road, which was not a good one. That was the road of I have not achieved academically, I will go into or down a trajectory or a path that's not the most bright or inspiring. Or I could double down and really try, for the first time in my life, hard at studying and then just putting in my effort. And I probably, retrospectively looking back at it, put in about 80% effort, did pretty good. Got into the second best university, best I should like to say, but apparently according to rankings is number two, in the country, University College Dublin, studied English and Sociology, then I did a Master's there in Business. And what was a big turning point for me there was growing up, particularly during that turbulent period, being intellectual or academic or anything of the kind was not something that was celebrated. As a matter of fact, quite the opposite. And so I was a closet reader and intellectual. I read every single girls children's book there is because up until the period of seven we had a big library of girls children's books, and then after seven we didn't buy too many more books. Like I read every Enid Blyton - The Famous Five, The Adventures of Babysitting Club - I could tell you them all. Everything in the shop. And I used to remember reading veraciously under my covers. But the reason why I say this is because I hit that until I was 17 when I got to University, suddenly education was something to be celebrated. Suddenly people were not talking about jobs, they were talking in the context of a career, and they were talking about meaning and purpose. And the upbringing I had post-seven years old was very much, a little bit further down the Maslow hierarchy of needs, as far as just making sure the ship was steady. And so it opened up a whole new world for me. And after some time there I went, did some travel around the world is, which I think you might be aware. I lived in a 10 for nine months in Australia. I surfed all throughout the worlds, from right through Southeast Asia, Australia. I lived in a commune, I was in New Zealand, I was in the States, I was in Central America. Came home 2008, big recession, Lehmann brothers failed around that time, you might remember, Ireland fell off the side of a cliff, and lucky little old me I got plucked out of that recession by what was at the time a little known start up called LinkedIn. I was employee number six in the Dublin office. I think they're are like two and a half thousand now or something. So, I won the lottery ticket, and I was invested in by that company, and over the next eight and a half years, I spent time in Dublin and moved down to Australia. I opened offices there. I came to San Francisco, started-up that training program globally for all of our graduates. And then went back in around the Sales Solutions business for a few years. And then most recently to present day, in my last six months I'm in my new role leading Sales at Headspace, which is a mindfulness meditation app company. So, I'll pause there. That's the brief history of time. Hopefully that was brief enough and not two verbose, but gives you kind of a flavour for my journey. Naber:  Mate, that was great. That's great. And we'll hop through a few of those jumps you made both before LinkedIn, at LinkedIn, afterwards at Headspace. Headspace, $320 million valuation, $75 million raised, a rocket ship, really fast growing, incredible product-driven company, which is really cool. LinkedIn of course, $27 billion acquisition by Microsoft - you there very early. I was actually just looking at a photo that I saw, somehow I found this on Facebook, photo of Bob Moody taking a picture, it was eight and a half years ago of you and Adrian wrapping shoe boxes... Gordon Tobin:  Oh yes... that was a a holiday time thing. But that was back in the day when we were literally taking our laptops out of their boxes and setting them up ourselves, we didn't have IT at LinkedIn those days, if you can believe it. Naber:  I do believe it. A tech company not having IT, incredible. But the caption was hilarious, "Gordon and Adrian wrapping shoe boxes. Non-revenue generating activity". I thought that was hilarious. Anyways, the point is really, really early getting onto the LinkedIn ship, and lucky we both were...Yeah. So cool. Such a cool ride and then, and then your jump to Headspace - very, very smart move as well. We'll talk about that in a little bit. So, along the way, you've made a couple of jumps. So let's talk first about your...You just got back from living in a tent for a long time, I think Gordon Tobin:  Yeah man, a commune. Naber:  Amazing. We're going to talk about that a little bit later. But was your first role BOA - Bank of America, when you came back. Gordon Tobin:  Yeah, yeah. Yes it was... Naber:  Haha. Give me a short blurb on what you're doing at Bank of America (BOA). Gordon Tobin:  Yeah. I was in collections for a delinquent credit card debts, I was a collections agent. Naber:  Dream job, dream job. Gordon Tobin:  Of course. And then your primary, that was your primary remit. Your secondary remit was to, and this is part of I was an unwitting cog in a larger wheel, that was the securitization of debt against people's properties. So basically making sure that their credit card that was secured against their home and if they didn't pay their debt, they would lose their home. Naber:  Compounding effects. Compounding. Gordon Tobin:  Yeah. And I mean, we all know where that led, 10, 11 years ago. But, from my point of view, the day-to-day actually was really good because I sat with a headset for nine hours, the thing we go "bunggg", a bunch of notes would pop up in front of me telling me what the person's situation was credit-wise, and what we wanted to do. And I would deal nine hours a day straight, a half hour break, in some pretty difficult conversations. And I learned how to be compassionate. I learned how to really listen and not wait to but-in while the other person is speaking. And I learned how to be resilient and that kind of environment. And I think actually working there and having some tough experiences early in life really built in me a shield of spirit that has protected me from the things that have happened throughout my life, and that has just led me to relate to those experiences differently and construct meaning around them in a positive way. Naber:  I think it's both apparent professionally and personally and when anyone spends more than one minute with you, which is I think it's an amazing testament. Very cool. Okay. So from BOA you moved to Nomads World Hotels and you lived in Byron Bay in Australia for six months, and quote unquote on your LinkedIn profile, possibly the most fun job ever. What was your favorite part about that job? Gordon Tobin:  The sense of community. There was 150 of us. We woke up, we shared our resources, we surfed together in the morning, the early morning, catching the most beautiful glassy waves. The backdrop was tropical jungle, one of the most beautiful beach breaks in Australia. And we would come back, we'd eat together, we'd work in the hostile. I'm a salesperson. So we'd find ways to make money, think broadly. We tell anything we could from cold cans of coke on the beach to whatever we could. But I think it was that sense that we were all pulling together in unison in pursuit of a common purpose, which was really a community that was based on nothing else other than looking at it for your fellow brother or sister and making sure they were well taken care of. And we did that through surfing. We did it through music and we did it through breaking bread together. Meal time was a very important time where we pool our resources, to come up with the best meal possible. And for me it was just amazing. I worked front of house at the hostels so I knew everybody nearby. And then a small part of my job, I think you might read on my profile was removing poisonous snakes occasionally when they came into the hostel. Naber:  That's so scary. Brown Snakes are no joke. Gordon Tobin:  Yeah, snake capturing...So if the whole sales things doesn't work out, I do have a little bit of experience there, so don't forget that if you're watching this podcast you can find me. Naber:  Haha, so funny that I pulled the headphone jack out of my headphones. Can you hear me okay? Gordon Tobin:  Ha, yeah, I've gotcha. Naber:  That was at a Arts Factory, in Byron? Gordon Tobin:  Yeah, the Arts Factory in Byron, which I think most people who've gone up the east coast of Australia will have heard of it, if not stayed there. Naber:  It's a high traffic place. Okay, so you left there...What kind of, what music are you listening to at that point? You made a passing comment, but I'm, I'm interested. You said that music was connecting you. Gordon Tobin:  Yeah, primarily acoustic. So I play guitar. I brought the guitar with me, and that was a big part of what we did together. Actually, I neglected to mention as a community we would just make music together. So I don't actually learn songs. My brain is not wired that way. I don't have the intelligence to do it, but I can make stuff up as I go along. And so, there's a few people in there and I don't know if you've ever had the experience of just jamming with people, and some people you can just, you start playing and they start playing along, and it's it clicks. And those people were there. And so, there was a lot of music, a lot of guitar playing going on there as well. That was a big part of our experience. And still a big part of my life to this day. Naber:  Do you play by ear? You don't read music...you play by ear? Gordon Tobin:  Well, no, I can, I mean I can barely read upside down tabs. And actually, to be honest with you Brandon, I don't make, I don't to like to learn songs. I'm what I would call a bedroom player. I sit in the room, and I make stuff up. Or I sit in the garden, and I make stuff up as I'm going along. And I almost get into a trance-like meditative state, where I forget how much time is going by, and I suddenly look up at us two hours, 90 minutes, or maybe half an hour, but it's a very therapeutic, private thing that the introvert in of me loves to do. Naber:  Really cool. We're jumping ahead here, but would you view that as a form of meditation? Gordon Tobin:  So I think, yes it can. It's a definitely a meditative practice depending on the state of mind. I mean, meditation is really just a tool to be more mindful of what you're doing in your life, and to be more present in what you're doing in your life. And so anything that requires or summons your full attention and brings you into what some people might call a flow state, or where all your Gamma, Theta, Alpha brainwaves are going in straight lines toward one thing. That's a beautiful place to be in. and I find I get close to that place either through the act of meditation itself or things like playing the guitar. Guitar's actually probably the closest after meditation, in terms of getting me to a more mindful place...in my own mind and remaining somewhat in control of it. Naber:  Very cool. Very cool. And then, after that you went travelling for probably another six months or so, after you were in Byron? Gordon Tobin:  Yes, so after Byron, hit the road. We went up the entire East Coast of Australia. Then we went...we met a bunch of people in Byron, so the people we met with said come stay with us. So for the latter half of the six months we just couch surfed, and surfed literally, so double surfing going on - got a combo in...And we went up the East Coast, went all through Queensland. Got up...Did Frasier Island, did the Whitsunday Islands, all that stuff - which is, by the way, if you haven't been, one of the most aesthetically beautiful places on earth. Anybody who listens to this, I would strongly recommend you take a visit there when you get a chance. Naber:  Gorgeous. Gordon Tobin:  Then I went to New Zealand, we have pals there. We surfed down there old school in much, much, much colder waters, in New Zealand as well. Then went from there to Los Angeles, spent time in Los Angeles and Culver City, of all places, backward and forward to Texas because I made a very good friend from Austin, while I was in Texas. And then we went straight down into Central America and continued surfing through Costa Rica, Nicaragua, and Panama as well. So pretty awesome. Naber:  Wow. What a journey. Gordon Tobin:  Yeah, I think that the funds ran out. My father was a little bit ill. He's much better, thank God now. But all the cosmic fingers, if you will, were pointing towards Ireland and returning home and that the year travel had served as purpose in terms of my wanderlust and what I was after. Naber:  Wow. Okay. So you came back, followed the cosmic signs, and came back to work as a recruitment consultant in Dublin. Tell us, give us, give us a minute on that. Gordon Tobin:  I'll give you a bit of back context first. So when I returned back from a year of travel, as I mentioned, in 2008 Lehman fails, I think it was October 17, if memory serves. But I came home to an Ireland that was deep in a very bad recession. So if you were male, between the age of 18 to 25 there was a 50% chance you were unemployed. I have a core group of friends who I've known since about six years old. And for a variety of reasons, I'd say seven of the ten are still long-term unemployed since then. Naber:  Wow. Gordon Tobin:  Yeah. And so there's a tale of two cities I think in the Irish economic resurgence depending on which side of that city you're on, North or South Naber:  I was going to say North or South, yeah. The Liffey. Gordon Tobin:  But for me, for the first six months I came back I was on social welfare. And it was a decision. It was coming from this primrose path of Dalliance of surfing, and all that good stuff I was talking about in communes to Ireland, gray, dreary. And also, a communal consciousness of...it was socially acceptable to, not give up, but to congregate with your other unemployed friends and ,drink beer or do whatever, and complain about what was going on. And I think after a few weeks of reacclimatizing to that situation, realizing that I did not going to social welfare once a week, picking up 117 euros and trying to make that stretch for my mom's house. And that was not something that I was going to tolerate. So in a previous life I boxed quite a bit, and then I decided I was going to get up every morning and getting a job was going to be my job. And so I get up, I train in the morning. I would spend several hours online, LinkedIn, lots of other places trying to find jobs and then I would go to the boxing club in the evening, as opposed to doing what other people were doing, which is the socially acceptable thing at that time which was to say, "The government messed up, and it was outside of our control. The whole country is going pitfall, so I'm going to follow that." And I'm not saying not to blow my own horn, I just made a conscious decision that I was not going to get into that mindset. And so I trained physically and mentally every day and went through some really hard times. There was 17 euros extra per month for the Internet so I could apply for jobs. And that was a real expense in our household, that my mother had complained to me about. And so for me it was the period before I went into recruitment was six months of welfare, and then when I went into recruitment, I'm trying to call people to let me work jobs that don't exist, while the whole country is being laid off. So really recruitment for me was, I'm first of all eternally grateful that they gave me that job and I learned a lot about talent, which maybe we'll touch on that a little bit. But that's where I really learned the value of resilience and also gratitude because even though that job was terribly difficult in a macro economic climate, that was the worst in the history since the start of the Irish State in 1929 and then the first draft of The Republic in 1931, I believe it was. Even for all those hardships that were part of that experience, I learned so much. And so then, I don't want to fast forward and ruin the end of the movie, but you go into a place LinkedIn and they started talking about things career and all that good stuff going on there. Culturally, for me that was a little bit of a walk in the park compared to what I had experienced in the previous few years of my life. Songs, surfing around Australia. Naber:  So, a quick question because I want to get into LinkedIn, but there's just - I mean, I wish we had 10 hours for this episode right now - so, how do you remind yourself of that experience on a daily, weekly, monthly basis now when your circumstances are vastly different from what they were back then? How do you make sure that you remind yourself, what's the mental process or peg that you put in your calendar, or whatever it is. How do you remind yourself of making sure that you're grateful, from going from where you were at that time to right now? Gordon Tobin:  Yeah. there's a few ways. One I'm engaged in, I'm a bit of a meditation guy, so I meditate four times a day. And part of that is a gratitude practice. Second thing is I've very strong connection to my roots back home. I've always felt an otherness because I'm unusual no matter where I am. Even at home, I'm slightly unusual, given my mixed race background. And, I also never want to forget where I came from, and what my family did, and the sacrifice we had, to make to get me to be on this point that you can just be on top of this podcast with you. And the last thing, and this is one that I learned at LinkedIn and even had some coaching on it this morning, is the ability to zoom out. When you are in the weeds in the problem, your mind can be a school-sized prison and inprisonment can be so total that the prisoner does not even know they're locked up. And that is a very dangerous place to be. But if you have the ability to zoom out and say, okay, my momentary struggle, trouble, or strife, or turbulence, or whatever's going on at that time, if you can zoom out and say, well look on the spectrum of things in the grand scheme of life that will happen to me - like getting married or a bereavement or all the big life events - where this really stack up on a unit sense against that? And if you zoom out far enough and you think about it, you're like actually not at all. In most cases, if I asked myself, am I going to care about this in the same visceral emotional way now in a year's time, the answer to that question is always no. And part of the reason for that is, and I don't want to belabour the point, but our default settings, they live in our own heads. And our own emotions are so immediate, so available, so urgent and felt they have to be dealt with in that moment so urgently. But the reality is they, like all things in life, are passing and transient. And so your ability to step back and observe those and let that process happen, and not become the emotion, but observe it and be curious and learn from it, can help from the resilience path and bring you through almost anything in life, in my opinion. We have a choice in terms of every construct meaning around our experience. If you're aware enough to make that choice and stop. Naber:  And everyone listening just reminded themselves of what I just said around - if your around Gordon for more than one minute, you realize this guy is enlightened and deep and amazing perspective. Gordon Tobin:  Thank you, I appreciate it. Naber:  So you jumped into LinkedIn at that time, and that means a whole lot of different things for you personally and professionally. When you jumped into LinkedIn, you had a whole lot of responsibility thrown at you from a sales, a new market perspective, a new boss and everything was young. As you grew up, as you grew up at LinkedIn, you met an enormous amount of fascinating people. And one of the things that LinkedIn is notorious for is building an incredible culture and hiring great people. If I'm thinking about the people that embody that and I'd to hear, talk about it, your very high on that list of people that I'd to hear. What are some of the frameworks or principles that you think about at both LinkedIn, that you took away...of a business that is just world-class at building culture, as you go into and as you're now in Headspace. How do you think about building cultures, especially as you're building new teams, taking over new teams? How do you think about that? What's the framework that you use in your mind? Gordon Tobin:  Yeah. So the framework that I use is one I've learned at LinkedIn. And so for me, culture and values, if you are...it's really actually a question about integrity. So there you will have a set of cultural tenants and values, and they are things that are statements of self, both your current self and your aspirational self. And it's also a set of guiding principles, in terms of how you will govern your actions and your decisions on a daily basis. And I think, particularly in a sales context, but anywhere, I think Peter Drucker might've, I'm paraphrasing, but says "culture eats strategy" for breakfast. It's so true. And for me, it's doing business through values. Just because we're in corporate America or corporate wherever you, you can run a really good business and you can also teach people really good human values. And the right way to do it with integrity and through honesty. And so for me in building that, when I came in to the team at Headspace, I asked them those questions. We sat down, we took a full day because I wanted them to understand how important cultural, the cultural bedrock of everything we do, how that affects everything. And so we took a full day where we white-boarded it out. I was like, who are we today? I don't know exactly exactly, you guys know better than I do. Tell me who we are. Tell me who we want to be, and then let's talk about some ideas that will govern actions and decisions. And so, I mean, there's a bunch of them. I could give you examples. At LinkedIn, one of the big ones was Members First. So we're always going to put the free member before we put our customers. Because without a healthy member ecosystem, you don't have a B2B business to build on your B2C ecosystem. And so every commercial decision was not made at the expense of compromising that value. And so when I say it's an integrity thing, it's a question of - there's a list of things that we believe to be true, in terms of our current state and who we want to be. And they are things we are not going to compromise on, even if that hurts us financially in the short term. And we have to have shared agreement on what those things are. And then they manifest day-to-day in different decisions that you make, often that conversation will come up, and I will actually think about the culture and the values we've created, and is there a culture or value tenant that can drive or help at least guide the decision making process? And that for me is key. If you don't have that stuff laid down, it's it's not a very nice recipe for a very tasty dish, we'll put it that way. Naber:  Nice. Good analogy. I've heard you talk about set, demo, and hold the culture from the perspective of how to apply this from a leadership, management, and ground-up perspective. What does that mean when you say set, demo, and hold? Gordon Tobin:  Yeah. So culture in a lot of companies can just be a didactic little parable that sits on a polished thing on a wall that people don't know that it is. An awareness of something is different than commitment to it. And so for me, it's, it all starts, everything from a cultural standpoint starts at the top. And so if I as a leader say that, precision in execution on something is important, or compassion in how we collaborate with our cross functional partners and some of the more complex deals we're involved with is important, and we expect folks to live by those things, you know. And so I think, if you don't have that common set of rules in place, it can be really difficult and challenging down the road to manage the business. But if you do have it in place, you're setting yourself up for the right foundation. But that is after talent, that's the starting point. Naber:  Got It. And how do you, how do you bring that into measuring engagement and performance based on culture? How does that proliferate throughout the organization, both from a leadership and management perspective, and then trickle down? Because you mentioned it's top down. Gordon Tobin:  Yeah. So I think, on the top down it's, to your point, I'll just use the parlance, set the standard, demonstrate the standard, hold others accountable. Whatever cultural tenants that we agree to, it starts with me, or the CEO, or whomever is setting the culture. But if she says x is important, she's got to live that, and she's got to demonstrate them. And she can't live it and demonstrate it, then she's not in a position to hold other people accountable to it. That's where I think I'd round-out that answer. I think on the second part, can you remind me of part B of the question? Naber:  Yeah, sure. So how are you making sure that that comes out when you're thinking about measuring engagement and measuring performance of people? And then how does it, how do you make sure that proliferates throughout the business through leadership and management as well as bottom up - acting that out? Gordon Tobin:  Yeah. So I think, from an engagement standpoint, it's rewarding those behaviors that are befitting the culture and helping perpetuate, and grow, an inculcate the culture. Naber:  Can you give me a couple of examples? Can you give me a couple of examples of that on, how that would happen? What's the setting, what are you saying? What you doing? Gordon Tobin:  I can give you a really good example, only came up yesterday. So someone who was quite junior-level, not junior, wrong word, but a little bit earlier in career we'll say, wrote a direct email to the executive staff pointing out some things that she felt we could be doing a better job on. And there's a value within Headspace that I really love, which is courageous heart, and it's having the ability to step up and speak your mind if something feels a bit weird, even if you don't fully understand it, just flag it and have the courage to do that. I think, this particular individual was very brave in doing that. And just because, it's a normal human social hierarchical thing to raise the flag on something that, it takes a lot of guts, and I had a huge amount of respect. And it was called out at the all hands as something to be celebrated. And I also think then there's rituals and celebration around that. And so how do you reward that? And I do it through our staff meetings. I do it through all hands. And so if people are living out the cultural tenants of the company, I call it out first actually ahead of the results, because I believe the results follow the culture. Naber:  Culture breeds results, result doesn't breed culture. It's not chicken and egg. Fully believe it. Okay. So that was gold. That was excellent. And thank you for the examples as well. Gordon Tobin:  Yeah, thanks for reminding me of part B of that question when I trailed off. Naber:  Yeah, no worries. No worries. I reminded myself after you asked. So, you had a lot of interesting cool, gigs at LinkedIn. You went from Sales Development where you're building pipeline, you were in Account Executive roles, you were in Team Lead roles and temporary management roles when were in Sales Development, then you moved to the account executive roles. You're in Dublin, you were in Perth, you moved to San Francisco leading Business Leadership Program there - which was an amazing global program that you had set up. And then ultimately moving into a sales leader role in Sales Solutions. during that time, you have both me, a lot of amazing people, interviewed a lot of amazing people, spoken to a lot of very, very smart, influential people, and hired a lot of people as well. Let's talk about talent. Let's talk about talent. So when you're thinking about hiring great teams and a set of, maybe a framework or a set of principles you use as you're going through that process, how does that play itself out for you? What are the, what's the framework? What are the set of principles that you use when you think about making sure you bring the right person in, engage that person, and retained them? Gordon Tobin:  Well, let me say this first. If there's anything that anybody takes away from this podcast that talent should be the most important thing you're always thinking about it in your business. No matter if your CEO or Sales Dev Rep, and you're making referrals, or you're making big time hires, or whatever. Throughout your entire career, your ability to have the nose to pick talent is going to be the most important thing you do. Making the right hiring decision is P-1 in Gordon's opinion. And there's a lot of energy coming through now in my voice, but please, please, please believe me that talent is number number one. And in terms of frameworks and philosophies, how do I go about Brandon? There's loads of, I've hired probably in the region of about I think 400+ people directly or indirectly, and maybe 30+ directly. Anyway, point being, you need to align on a set of beliefs and competencies that you believe that if someone possessed these, that they will be successful in this role. That's actually really hard because the taxonomy of skills versus job titles, as I'm sure some of your listeners will be aware, is not exactly a perfect system. And so I think you have, that's the first challenge. But I would say getting really clear on what are the three to five things that this person must be able to do? And then it becomes how do we objectively test for those things in a consistent manner, which is extremely important. I also think you want to give yourself as diverse a candidate slate as possible, so you can hear a multitude of different perspectives asking the same consistent answers to questions. That will really inform the gaps you can and cannot fill. And I think, the other big thing on the hiring front, after you've agreed to those things and you have ways of testing for them, and I'll give you an example. So let's say you're hiring a salesperson - one of my core beliefs, with sales people or any people actually, anybody for that moderate is coachability. And whether you're running a huge big company and you're the CEO, or no matter who you are, you have to be able to coach people around you or else you're just going to end up doing their job for them. And so the way we would test for coachability is give you a scenario and say, "Hey Brandon, you're a an account executive, you got an inbound lead coming in, qualify this person - BANT, pick your thing - and then we'll listen to the call. And so we go through, we do a 20 minute thing, you give the call and then I'll give you feedback - immediately, I give you feedback on that call. And then what I say is, okay, I'm going to ask you to come back in a week and we're going to try the same or similar role play again. And what I'd to see is demonstrable improvement in the areas of giving you feedback. Does that sound reasonable? Okay, great. So now I've given them a week to prepare and recalibrate against some of those things. First thing I do when they walk into the second round is say, "What was the feedback I gave you?" And if they don't know the answer to that question close to verbatim, that's not a good thing - put it that way. But thankfully 99 times out of 100 they do. And it's really a question for me to say - how quickly and with what level of dexterity was this person able to adapt to the coaching I gave them, and what was their emotional reaction to that coaching? Because in the interview process when someone's trying to get a role is different from when someone's in role, and you're giving coaching and feedback on a weekly basis. So coachabiliity for me is key, and I think he can test that going week over week by just keeping it quite simple - that's one thing I would test for, as an example. Naber:  That's great. And as you go through that process of interviewing thousands of people, thousands and thousands of people to hire hundreds and hundreds of people, do you have a way of...what is the method that you use for calibrating with other people, and who do you include in that process for calibrating the candidates that you're interviewing? Gordon Tobin:  Yeah, first person is definitely the Talent Acqsuition (TA) partner, and then secondary spherical is all my cross functional partners will be involved. So I think anybody they would be involved in working with, we would want them to again and go through a score card of what the things that this person would need to be able to have already done and be expected to do in that job. And that'll be different for each cross functional stakeholder. And so making sure I calibrate each one of those. First port of call is always my TA leader. Then we speak to the people that interact with most frequently in a cross functional basis, have the things you want to test for, think through how we test for them objectively so we remain compliant and all that kind of stuff. And then it's a a matter of rolling out the process. And I think the big thing there is really, really the good candidate management. I think a lot of companies get applications - I think LinkedIn got somewhere in the region a million applications last year, which is a lot of applications, and it creates a management issue. And I think a lot of companies are quite good at sourcing and finding people that they think are good, but different things happen internally or competing stuff comes up, and they push an interview or they do something like that - that's terrible, from a candidate experience point of view. I go down and I meet people down in the lobby, and I shake their hand, and I walked them him up, and I walked them out, and I talk to them. And I actually asked people in the lobby - did they interact with you? I'm curious to hear how they interact normally when not under supervision in a contrived environment. Naber:  I love that. I love that nugget. I love it. Any one to two specific interview questions, or types of questions that you ask that are very telling in the interview process for what you look for? And I don't mean against specific competencies, but a Gordon Tobin special question, where I asked this all the time because it tells me something that no other questions or very few other questions will be able to answer for me. Gordon Tobin:  I'll give you two examples. One is a Gordon Tobin, one is not a Gordon Tobin one. So the not Gordon Tobin one, which I always find very interesting to learn about people's early motivations. and a lot of this stuff happens before the age of seven - you're programmed, or so they say. But I asked people, what's the, particularly in a sales context, what's the first thing that you did in life to make money? What was the first job you had? Naber:  That is a good question. Gordon Tobin:  And I'm curious to know, was that job a function of necessity? Curiosity? Just natural innate a entrepreneurial-ism? Was it something they absorbed from the environment around them, like osmosis? So that's one. And I think their motivations for that can be quite telling in the kind of work they did. That's one big one. And I think the other one, for me, if I think about it...Just a general framework or philosophy, I think when I bring anybody in that I'll share, that it's a little bit off topic, but I think is important is this idea of near perfect autonomy and accountability when you have the talent in the door. And so this is probably my main one. And this is...early in a role, people need direction because they don't know what they don't know, and then they get to stage two and they're like okay, now I know what I don't know, and they need more guidance. And then you bring them through the guidance period, and then they know what they're doing, and they're in the flow zone. Well, most managers, and I've made this mistake myself - oh that person's crushing it, they don't need my help anymore. And then they get bored and they become an attrition risk, and you don't know about it. And so for me it's being able to recognize where people are in that curve and developing their talent along the way. And paying hyper-attention to everybody, because everybody's in a different place in the competency curve. And so when you think about autonomy and accountability, I aspire to get people near perfect autonomy to make decisions as they want and consciously trying to divorce myself from as many decisions as possible. And the reason why I do that is I cannot hold sales people or anybody accountable for the end result or the output, if I have too much meddlesome interaction in the inputs. They are free to come ask for my advice, for my counsel, for me to remove barriers, resources, or get on deals, I don't mind. But I won't insert myself directively in doing that, unless of course there's a performance thing going on. But generally how do I give this person as much autonomy to do what they need? But also let them know that with the autonomy, will come accountability at the end. And where I've seen people thrive in those environments. But it's hard. The little analogy I'll give to explain it is, it's like if you had your kid and your teaching it how to ride the bicycle. And you've got the - what do you call them, stabilizers? The little wheels? Training wheels. And their on their training wheels, and you take the training wheels off, and they start to wobble maybe just a little bit. If they're in a park and there's some nice soft ground, and some grass, you might actually let them wobble for a little bit longer so they learn the lesson of balance. You may even let them have a little spill so they learn what happens if you don't keep balance, if you don't keep the wheels straight. But if on the other hand you saw your child veering dangerously towards some oncoming traffic, you would of course jump in and step in. And the challenge with the autonomy and accountability model is knowing difference between when to step in, when to allow the person learn from the mistake. And that's really dependent on how existential the risk is of the learning lesson relative to the mistake. But that's a hard one, and I'm still a student of that and will be until my last breath. Naber:  That's a really good one. Do you have any tips for that evaluation process? Gordon Tobin:  Yeah, I think for me, you've got to think about...usually this comes up where someone says, "Hey, I want to try this thing." Whatever new way they want to sell something, or go to market, or some new thing. And for me, it's like, I've probably seen this movie before and have an idea, an inkling of how I think it's going to play out. And kind of most of the time it plays out that, not always, I'm wrong - we're only human. And the question I always ask myself is, is this a one way door or a two way door? So if they're walking into a one way door and there's no way of backing out, I try and make sure I highlight that for them. If it's a two way door, and they can walk in and be "Ooh", this might not have been the right room, let's moonwalk back out, back through door number two. And the analogy I use. And this is where it goes back to autonomy. I'm not going to make that decision for the rep, I'll provide the frameworks to allow them think through the process. But I won't tell people the answer because that's not my job. My job is to hire really smart people and coach them and bring out the potential in them, not provide all the answers. And I couldn't if I wanted to, even if...I'm just not capable of providing all the answers. Very few people are, and anybody who tells you they are - I would veer very, very far away from them. That's just Gordon's opinion. Naber:  So, you've got all these smart, coachable, brilliant people that you bring in into business. You're building culture - set, demo, hold the standard. And you've got to bring these folks into a structured environment that they're going to be able to succeed. What is your - let's start with something simple. What is your meeting structure or your cadence, whether it be daily, weekly, monthly look like? Some of the meetings that you have, conversations you have, what's your cadence? Gordon Tobin:  For sure. So I think, maybe I'll speak about it just from the front line manager perspective, which might be helpful. I think, first of all, in my opinion, the two core operating priorities for anybody is hiring and coaching. I'll repeat that again, talent and coaching. 40% of your time as a frontline managers should be spent coaching. And I would, espouse folks on the call, if you haven't, maybe Google the GROW model - there's a bunch of them, but it's a way of asking questions to get the answer as opposed to just giving the answer. So you want to teach someone had to fish as opposed to just hand them fresh fish, every day - that's the idea there. Naber:  Love Fish. Gordon Tobin:  Yeah. Who doesn't love a good fishing. The other ways you've got to bring people along these curves is helping them...I see myself almost like a Sherpa that doesn't carry the bags. And so I can point the direction of up the mountain because I've climbed a bit of it, and I've seen where the pitfalls are, and I can tell people that. But I ain't going to carry your bags, and you got to walk up that mountain yourself. And you gotta be motivated to do so. I think if you find the right people and you give them the right set of direction, and you set the right cultural foundations, you're in a really good spot for people to thrive. But you must create the necessary conditions for success, which all begins with culture. Naber:  Got It. Awesome. And what percentage of your week would you bucket into each major thing that you're doing? Let's use the frontline sales manager example. What percentage of your time are you spending doing each particular thing? Either per week or per month, however you've thought about it. Gordon Tobin:  So, hour-long staff meeting once a week. That's where everyone through our operating priorities, our OKR's, and how we're pacing against them. We'll have a forecast meeting, which is your typical upside, downside, outlook - how we're pacing against that, any things we need to do to accelerate or decelerate what's going on. And then, I'll have an hour long, ideally one to one with every rep, where five minutes might just be spent, just double checking if anything changed in the forecast, if any swings happen in deals. But most of that time should be spent coaching. And then maybe toward the end of the quarter, with a couple of people, I put on my non-qualified therapist hat and support people through those moments that we all have in sales where we're like "Ooh, where's my, where's my number coming from? And the reality is nobody goes through a sales career unscarred. And so as a manager you need to be compassionate to that, and help support and guide people to those moments when it happens. Naber:  Awesome. Favourite or most impactful monthly or quarterly meetings that you have? Gordon Tobin:  Favourite, most impactful monthly or quarterly meetings we have. The All Hands meeting for sure that Rics owns. I think that gives the air traffic control point of view of what's going on. I think it's really important for a leader to, from a stakeholder management point of view, obviously up, down, and across, but down is so important. And for me, clarity and transparency are really important. And for a CEO, like Rich to build trust with 230 people, that happens with consistency over time. And so I think you get the same set of operating priorities, the same set of values or culture is consistent, and every month you're CEO, she or he is coming out and talking to those, and reminding people with reputation, reputation, reputation. Steve Gergen once said, former press secretary, "You got to repeat something until people are sick of hearing it." I'm a big believer in that. I'm a big believer in. And Rich comes out once a month, and has that meeting. And I think it's really, transparent. It's really informative, and it builds trust. Gordon Tobin:  Awesome. I think, Jeff Weiner used to say, "Only after you've said something a hundred times, people will have full of heard you." Then, after 99 times, they still may not have heard you, after the a hundred times, they may have heard you. So saying something over and over, it'll sink in. I subscribe to that. And then one of the other things, with your example - the all hands meetings - is the transparency that it applies to the entire employee base that allows those employees to go then be autonomous and make decisions because they know what's important and what are the highest priorities within the organization, all within the vein of the cultural and value tenants that, that are so important to the organization - well defined. I think that's a makes sense. It's really valuable as well. Gordon Tobin:  Yeah. Typically, the operating priorities, whether it's my staff meeting, all hands, whatever, it needs to be consistent across the board or else you're just be all over the map. Gordon Tobin:  Yeah. Yeah. 100%. Okay. And as you're, as you're going through some of the different roles that you've had both at LinkedIn and the Global Program that you ran. Actually, just give a one minute summary on the business leadership program that you ran because it was a mammoth. And I feel you skipped over that quite quickly. Give us the 30 to 60 seconds on what you did there, and then we can jump into what my question was. Gordon Tobin:  Yeah, totally. I'm happy to talk about it. Business Leadership Program, headline is we better, that's not the right word. We wanted to do two things. We wanted to up level the entry level sales talent across the sales organization of LinkedIn. And as a secondary, we wanted a longer term play in succession planning in potentially finding young talent and grooming it for more senior executive positions in the long-term. And so the idea was, if we had a different strategy where we went straight to the source, went straight to the universities, went all around the country, even we got to a point we were hiring people who hadn't gone to university - which is another big topic I'd love to get back on your show and talk about another day because talent and opportunity are definitely not equally distributed, for sure. But setting up that program was probably the six most difficult months of my career in that we were a startup within a very large company with high expectation. We were looking to compete with the Goldman's, and the people who already had very established university programs. And for me, I think coming from Australia, having little to no experience in anything akin to that role, and the remit of that role was, it was just a really hard climb. But I would posit to the folks listening today, if I can, from a career standpoint, I think, may be paraphrasing Richard Branson here, but sometimes you'll get an opportunity in life, which you may not feel you're ready for it, but you should jump on it. And that's what I did in that case. And I think, in building that out, we, I think we're, we've hired over 600 or something people now, which is crazy. Naber:  Massive, massive scale. Gordon Tobin:  The retention rate is in around 10%. You'll know millennials in college training programs going into sales, that's well below it, that's a good proxy for industry standard. And so I suppose for me it was, it was very difficult, but it was the most ultimately gratifying thing I've ever done because even now, several years later, they call me, they text me, thanking me, asking for advice, mentorship, all that good stuff. And I thrive on depth of human relationships and the quality of them, not the breath. And to have so many, which is breath, but that go so deep, it's just so gratifying. And to know that I played just a very small part in teaching them about how to go about business in a values based way. And about doing the right thing all the time, even when nobody's looking, even when it's unpopular, even maybe when it's a bad career move, doing the right thing is the right thing always. And that's what I tried to teach those folks and hopefully some of them it stuck. God knows I'm not perfect, but I'm a big believer in ethics, and values, and integrity, and sticking to those things, and that's what I tried to get across to everybody in that program. They were going to learn the skills anyway. All, most skills in almost any job are learnable, but it's the important life lessons that they'll take with them and how they'll treat their employees when they're CEOs of companies, that's what I wanted to get across. And that is when I think we had our biggest win. Naber:  Awesome. I know you only have another few minutes here and you've been really generous with your time. That program was immense, and it had a significant number of stakeholders involved, all around the world, all over the shop. And then your next role also had a lot of stakeholders. This role you're in right now, a lot of stakeholders. Regardless of the organization, you've dealt with a number of stakeholder management, both challenges, solutions, all that fun stuff. How do you think about stakeholder management and what are some of the most important things people need to do as they're managing their stakeholders internally? Gordon Tobin:  Yeah. I think it's typical frameworks - up, down, across. Know your audience. I think it's good to have a template, a format that again comes in the form of your operating priorities. It always starts with your vision, your values, your operating priorities, and then how your business is pacing. I think when you're going up the chain that's a little bit more brief and succinct. I think when you're going across, with your cross functional peers, is to make sure that they're aware of all the dependencies that exist, and maybe resource constraints that you have to have. Perhaps you have to have a joint OKR with them. And then when you're talking to the team, it's about rallying and inspiring them around any shared vision as it relates to your overall operating priorities and what you set out. And I think if you can do those things, you're in a really go place. Naber:  Awesome. Thanks Gordon. Do you have time for two rapid fire questions then we'll head out. Gordon Tobin:  Well, I have about 90 seconds left. Naber:  Awesome. I always ask this question on people's birthdays. but I'm gonna ask it - it's not your birthday today, but I'm going to ask it to you today. What's the most valuable lesson you've learned in the last 12 months? Gordon Tobin:  In the last 12 months? It's better to be loving than to be right. Naber:  Wow. That's a good one. Is that a personal lesson or professional lesson? Gordon Tobin:  Both. Naber:  Love it. Cool. Last question...Best career navigation advice you would have for young professionals. Gordon Tobin:  Build your professional life and your personal life, not the other way around. A lot of people take 30, 40 years to figure that one out. And by that stage in some cases, it's too late. If you've got the...I'll finish on this note, the loneliest, actually the wealthiest place in the entire planet, and I'm not going morose here, it's a graveyard. Because it's full of ideas, inventions, books, poems, people who loved other people who never tell them, and it's filled with those people. And so, I would say to anybody, it's never too early or too late to be who you want to be. And if you're listening to this call, don't join and don't increase the wealth of that graveyard. Give everything you've got, and follow what you want to do, not what others expect you to do. And I think if you do that, you'll live a very happy life. So build it around your personal objectives and make sure your professionalized supports those, and not the other way around. Which is unfortunate, I see a lot of people do that and go through too much undue suffering in their careers, and it's actually life doesn't have to be that, believe it or not. Naber:  Hey everybody, thanks so much for listening. If you appreciate it and enjoyed the episode, go ahead and make a comment on the post for the episode on LinkedIn. If you love the Naberhood Podcast, would love for you to subscribe, rate, and give us a five-star review on iTunes. Until next time, go get it.

This month there are two important anniversaries in Ireland attached to the way women, children and babies were looked after by the State and the Church. Twenty years ago the Irish State issued a formal apology to them, and 10 years ago the Ryan Report came out looking at church sexual abuse. Some girls were held in Magdalene Laundries and pictured is Sean McDermott St, Dublin which was the last to close. It will be turned into a place of remembrance. We've been talking to Mary Merritt who's 88 and spent time at Sean McDermott Street as well as taking a look at the site itself with historian, Katherine O'Donnell. Why do fewer women hike alone than men? Travel writers, Kathi Kamleitner and Gail Simmons join Jenni to talk about the joys of hiking alone as a woman and why they think it's much safer than many people assume. Do you have an old teddy that has seen better days? Or an old vase that has the odd crack but you could never part with because it means too much to you? Well, these are the types of items that are taken into the BBC1 TV show The Repair Shop to get a new lease of life. Julie Tatchell and Amanda Middleditch are teddy bear restorers and Kirsten Ramsay repairs ceramics. Jenni talks to them about the skills needed to repair people's much loved items.We consider our ideas of motherhood and how they measure up to the realities, past and present. What do we know of motherhood in the past? And what are the ideas that shape our expectations of motherhood today? Professor Sarah Knott, blogger and campaigner, Remi Sade and comedian, Taylor Glen discuss.Presenter: Jenni Murray Producer: Kirsty StarkeyInterviewed Guest: Mary Merritt Interviewed Guest: Katherine O'Donnell Interviewed Guest: Kathi Kamleitner Interviewed Guest: Gail Simmons Interviewed Guest: Kirsten Ramsay Interviewed Guest: Professor Sarah Knott Interviewed Guest: Remi Sade Interviewed Guest: Taylor Glen

Jaan Van De Ven, entrepreneur and Direct Democracy Ireland candidate for Ireland South in the 2019 European Parliamentary Elections talks to Jillian about the start of the internet, the start of the Irish State and how a direct citizen referendum can make a difference, and oh! what about an Irish Coin for the Diaspora?

What has been the response of the so-called pro-choice side after Ireland's referendum to end rights for the unborn child? On this programme we respond to opinions aired by members of the media in Ireland, and also by those who hold government offices. Do those who oppose abortion have to get in line and support this new law?

A public lecture by Professor Emmet O'Connor (University of Ulster) as part of the lecture series Utopia Dystopia: The Russian Revolution One Hundred Years On. Organised by the Department of Russian and Slavonic Studies and the Department of History in association with the Trinity Long Room Hub. Professor O'Connor is introduced by Professor John Home. Immediately following the February 1917 revolution in Russia, Irish Labour identified with the Petrograd Soviet because it opposed the world war and supported the principle of national self-determination. Contact with the Bolsheviks was established after the October revolution and the Irish Labour delegates sided with the pro-Bolsheviks at the international socialist conference at Berne in February 1919. However, the foundation of the Comintern, and the related emergence of a far-left in Ireland, led Labour to distance itself from Russia, and Irish links with the Bolsheviks became confined to communist, Larkinite, and republican groups. Moscow would shape the politics of Irish socialism and left republicanism in the 1920s and 1930s, and the history of its several, successive affiliates tells us much about centre-periphery relations within the Comintern and the character of Comintern influence on the smaller communist parties. Emmet O'Connor studied at University College Galway and St John's College, Cambridge. Since 1985 he has lectured in History in Ulster University. Between 1983 and 2001, he co-edited Saothar, and is an honorary president of the Irish Labour History Society. He has published widely on labour history, including Reds and the Green: Ireland, Russia, and the Communist Internationals, 1919-43 (UCD Press, 2004); Big Jim Larkin: Hero or Wrecker? (UCD Press, 2015), and Derry Labour in the Age of Agitation, 1889-1923 (Four Courts Press, 2016). At present he is working on a study of the Irish in the International Brigades. About Utopia Dystopia Series A century after the Russian Revolution of 1917, its driving forces and its legacy, and indeed even its start and end, are still the subject of debate. It encompassed two key episodes in 1917, the February and October revolutions. The February revolution (known as such because of Russia's use of the Julian calendar until February 1918) began on March 8, 1917. This led to the collapse of the imperial rule by the last Tsar of Russia, Nicholas II, and the establishment of a democratic provisional government. The October revolution (which in the Julian calendar began on October 24th and 25th) began on November 6th and 7th led by Vladimir Lenin, leader of the Bolshevik party, and overthrew the provisional government to establish the first Marxist state in the world. It generated the dominant model of revolution for the remainder of the 20th century, engendered communist parties in many countries and was exported to much of Eastern Europe in the former of Soviet hegemony after victory in 1945, and helped shape the process of decolonisation. As we journey through Ireland's decade of commemorations and move ever closer to considering the complex war of independence and civil war that preceded the formation of the Irish State, this lecture series will reflect on the aftermath of the Russian Revolution right up to today and how it changed the course of world history at many levels. The Utopia Dystopia lecture series has been organised by Trinity College Dublin's Department of Russian and Slavonic Studies and Department of History in association with the Trinity Long Room Hub Arts and Humanities Research Institute. see the full lecture series here - https://www.tcd.ie/trinitylongroomhub/whats-on/details/utopia-dystopia.php

A lecture by Professor Steve Smith (All Souls College Oxford) as part of the Utopia Dystopia series. This lecture is in collaboration with the Department of History's International History Seminar Sseries. The Bolsheviks seized power in October 1917 in the conviction that this would trigger a revolution that would overthrow global capitalism and commence the transition to socialism. The Bolsheviks looked to Europe, and certainly social turbulence convulsed central, southern and eastern Europe between 1918 and 1923. However, the depth of revolutionary crisis in countries such as Germany and Italy was never as great as in Russia in 1917, and insurrections of the type that had put the Bolsheviks into power failed. The lecture argues that despite the Bolsheviks' conviction that the significance of their revolution lay in the promise of workers' power, its principal significance lay in its challenge to colonialism and imperialism, a challenge emblematized in the Congress of the Peoples of the East in September 1920. The lecture argues that it was in Asia (Persia, Korea, China, India) that the impact of the October Revolution was most enduring, at least in the immediate aftermath of October. Steve Smith is a senior research fellow at All Souls College Oxford and a professor in the Faculty of Modern History in the University. He is a widely published historian of modern Russia and modern China and his most recent book is Russia in Revolution: An Empire in Crisis, 1890-1927 (Oxford University Press, 2017). He is currently writing a book which compares the efforts of Communist regimes in the Soviet Union (1917-41) and the People's Republic of China (1949-76) to eliminate 'superstition' from daily life. A century after the Russian Revolution of 1917, its driving forces and its legacy, and indeed even its start and end, are still the subject of debate. It encompassed two key episodes in 1917, the February and October revolutions. The February revolution (known as such because of Russia's use of the Julian calendar until February 1918) began on March 8, 1917. This led to the collapse of the imperial rule by the last Tsar of Russia, Nicholas II, and the establishment of a democratic provisional government. The October revolution (which in the Julian calendar began on October 24th and 25th) began on November 6th and 7th led by Vladimir Lenin, leader of the Bolshevik party, and overthrew the provisional government to establish the first Marxist state in the world. It generated the dominant model of revolution for the remainder of the 20th century, engendered communist parties in many countries and was exported to much of Eastern Europe in the former of Soviet hegemony after victory in 1945, and helped shape the process of decolonisation. As we journey through Ireland's decade of commemorations and move ever closer to considering the complex war of independence and civil war that preceded the formation of the Irish State, this lecture series will reflect on the aftermath of the Russian Revolution right up to today and how it changed the course of world history at many levels. The Utopia Dystopia lecture series has been organised by Trinity College Dublin's Department of Russian and Slavonic Studies and Department of History in association with the Trinity Long Room Hub Arts and Humanities Research Institute. See the full list of lectures from this series https://www.tcd.ie/trinitylongroomhub/whats-on/details/utopia-dystopia.php

This episode was recorded earlier in the summer and is on the topic of religion and the Irish state. It was recorded one week after the Central Statistics Office released its Small Area datasets for Ireland. This is part of a planned series of podcasts on the Irish state and religion focusing upon different religions and new trends. In this episode we examine the relationship between the Roman Catholic Church and the Irish state, in particular the role of the Church in education and healthcare.  You can find us on Twtter @SYRpodcast Facebook facebook.com/spoilyourreign or by Email spoilyourreign@gmail.com

As part of the Utopia Dystopia lecture series, Dr James Ryan (Cardiff University) will deliver a talk, to take place almost exactly 100 years since the start of the October Revolution, which will address simple but crucial question: What was the October Revolution actually for and should Leninism be considered to have any relevance in our world today. Russia's October Revolution was one of the most consequential events in modern history. It helped ensure that the ultimate fate of the Russian Revolution would be far removed from the spirit of freedom and democracy that seemed so promising in 1917. When we think of the Russian Revolution, it is difficult not to be aware that it failed, and that its story is bound intimately with the complex relationship between utopia and dystopia. The Soviet state that resulted from the Revolution soon became extraordinarily violent and repressive, and ultimately it collapsed – along with the legitimacy of its ideological basis - having lasted for seven decades. This talk, to take place almost exactly 100 years since the start of the October Revolution, will provide a centenary perspective on Lenin the man and Leninism the ideology. It will do so by appraising Lenin's significance in 1917, before addressing a simple but crucial and much-overlooked question: What was the October Revolution actually for? The lecture will explain the content of Leninism as a body of political thought, and why it matters. It will conclude with some reflections on the question whether or not Leninism should be considered to have any relevance in our world today. Dr James Ryan is lecturer in Modern European (Russian) History at Cardiff University. A graduate of University College Cork and a former recipient of a Government of Ireland Postdoctoral Fellowship, he is the author of Lenin's Terror: The Ideological Origins of Early Soviet State Violence (London, 2012). He is currently working on an intellectual history of Soviet state violence, 1918-1941. He is a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society. About Utopia Dystopia Series A century after the Russian Revolution of 1917, its driving forces and its legacy, and indeed even its start and end, are still the subject of debate. It encompassed two key episodes in 1917, the February and October revolutions. The February revolution (known as such because of Russia's use of the Julian calendar until February 1918) began on March 8, 1917. This led to the collapse of the imperial rule by the last Tsar of Russia, Nicholas II, and the establishment of a democratic provisional government. The October revolution (which in the Julian calendar began on October 24th and 25th) began on November 6th and 7th led by Vladimir Lenin, leader of the Bolshevik party, and overthrew the provisional government to establish the first Marxist state in the world. It generated the dominant model of revolution for the remainder of the 20th century, engendered communist parties in many countries and was exported to much of Eastern Europe in the former of Soviet hegemony after victory in 1945, and helped shape the process of decolonisation. As we journey through Ireland's decade of commemorations and move ever closer to considering the complex war of independence and civil war that preceded the formation of the Irish State, this lecture series will reflect on the aftermath of the Russian Revolution right up to today and how it changed the course of world history at many levels. The Utopia Dystopia lecture series has been organised by Trinity College Dublin's Department of Russian and Slavonic Studies and Department of History in association with the Trinity Long Room Hub Arts and Humanities Research Institute. See the full lecture series here - www.tcd.ie/trinitylongroomhub/…utopia-dystopia.php

Were British ex-servicemen in Ireland viewed only as ‘British loyalists’ or those who had fought for or were still associated with ‘the enemy’ in the wake of the Great War and Irish Revolution? To date the works of Taylor, Fitzpatrick and Robinson have gone a long way to address that question and to show the scale and nature of hostility faced by those men and their families during the period of 1920-23, and thereafter, as well as the benefits that they received from the British State. But what other options did they have or could they have? Could they turn to charity after 1922 and if so which charities? In the latter part of the long nineteenth century the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland witnessed a popular explosion in charity and philanthropy. This also saw the burgeoning of military-specific charities – one hundred by 1900. While Ireland remained within the union things were simple: British soldiers and their families could often receive assistance throughout the British Isles, but once Ireland was partitioned things got complicated. A question that effectively loomed large in 1922 was: would the new Irish State prevent those old charities continue to support such men and their families as they had done for decades before. This paper seeks to answer this overarching question by using the 1923-29 transnational legal dispute over the legacies of two particular British military charities based in Ireland as a prism through which to view and analyse those developments and address three specific questions. Namely the place of British ex-serviceman and his family (as well as Protestants) in the new State, that State’s policy towards all things formerly owned or administered by the British state, and the policy of the new State in relation to its subordination to the law. Dr Paul Huddie completed his doctorate at Queen’s University Belfast in 2014. He is the author of several peer-reviewed publications including The Crimean War and Irish society (2015) and an executive member of the IAPH. His general interest is war and society (Britain and Ireland) in the long 19C, but his specialism is British military welfare: charity, philanthropy and the state. In 2017 he will present papers on this theme at New York and Bucharest. His invited chapter on the role of the charity SSAFA in ex-service families’ welfare provision in 1919-21 is presently under review by Manchester University Press.

This week on The Graveyard Shift, the lads talk about Fintan O'Toole's fascinating article in The Irish Times called, 'The State of Us.' We explore his deep dive into the way in which we collectively understand our story in Ireland and what it means for life, community and church. Listen on iTunes: https://goo.gl/hRnE2o Listen on Stitcher: http://goo.gl/ItvSN5 Follow the Graveyard Shift on Twitter: https://goo.gl/Ea8GxZ Support the Show on Patreon: https://goo.gl/BOSFEx Buy Graveyard Shift T-Shirts & Merchandise: goo.gl/GihkVr

Last year I talked to Irish Historian Bernard Kelly about his book “Military Internees, Prisoners of War and the Irish State during the Second World War”, thats episode 23 for those who haven’t listened. We discussed how the Republic of Ireland walked the tightrope of neutrality and how it treated troops of belligerent nations who found themselves within its borders.. Chatting with Bernard after that recording I discovered his MA thesis looked at the Russia’s Winter War with Finland. Yet another interesting WW2 topic and that's what we’ll be discussing in this episode. In November 1939 Russia attacked Finland, Britain and France were already at war with Germany and were not keen on declaring war on Russia in the defence of Finland. More importantly a total collapse of Finland might mean a Russian threaten Sweden and Norway? Also throw into the mix that Swedish iron was vital to the German war effort it meant the Allies needed to do something, but what?

From clashing with Shane Ross to meeting the Pope next week, Enda Kenny will be kept busy over the next few days jumping from one infallible figure to the next. Kenny has said that the Irish State's relationship with the Church is now better than ever but will the the abortion referendum be on the agenda and what about the Pope declaring that priests can now offer absolution to women who have had an abortion? Joining Niall O'Connor and Philip Ryan on this week's Floating Voter was the Sunday Independent's Niamh Horan who believed that ‘some women might find solace in receiving forgiveness from their local priest for an abortion.' “There might something in that moment for a women and it shouldn't be seen as another attack on the Church,” said Horan. Elsewhere on the show, the panel asked why Shane Ross was being pilloried for wanting more transparency from the judiciary, one of the most elite aspects of Irish society? “Whats wrong with wanting reform in the judiciary?” asked Philip Ryan. And are water charges now back on the political agenda? Fianna Fail have flip-flopped once more on the issue saying ‘not no, never' on water charges, though, ‘fix the pipes first' says Horan before she is willing to pay up.

In this episode, we discuss the history of Ireland as a colony and the relationship between Ireland’s colonial past and the current Irish culture. This is a follow up from our previous discussion of Irish culture and identity.  As always you can contact in the following ways:  Twitter @spoilyourreign  Facebook www.facebook.com/spoilyourreign Email: spoilyourreign@gmail.com

In this episode we’re looking at the peculiar situation the Republic of Ireland, Eire, found itself during the second world war. Along with countries such as Sweden, Switzerland and Spain, Eire trod the difficult path of remaining neutral. With all that entailed one question that needed to be dealt with was what to do with those servicemen from the belligerent nations who found themselves in Ireland by way of crashed planes or naval personnel rescued from the sunk shipping. I’m joined by Bernard Kelly. Bernard is a Irish historian whose book “Military Internees, Prisoners of War and the Irish State during the Second World War” looks at these issues.

Jesse Jones, Sarah Browne, Fearghus Ó Conchúir and Sarah Jane Scaife. JESSE JONES AND SARAH BROWNE – IN THE SHADOW OF THE STATE Taking place in the context of the Irish State centenary, artists Jesse Jones and Sarah Browne discuss their exploration of statehood from the perspective of the female body. FEARGHUS Ó CONCHÚIR – THE CASEMENT PROJECT The Casement Project is a choreography of bodies and ideas that takes place across multiple platforms and national boundaries. It dances with the queer body of British peer, Irish rebel and international humanitarian, Roger Casement to ask: Who gets to be in the national body? How could the national body move? Might Casement’s legacy be a flourishing diversity of citizen-bodies? SARAH JANE SCAIFE – BECKETT IN THE CITY How is it possible for Beckett’s abstract, modernist works to speak to the trauma of ‘unruly’ female bodies long hidden and controlled? Thursday 21 January 2016 at the Abbey Theatre

‘Hello Enda, it's me Micheal I was wondering if after all these years you'd like to meet To go over everything They say that time's supposed to heal ya But I ain't done much healing' Maybe it's not quite Adele, but Micheal Martin did finally pick up the phone to Enda to discuss, amongst other things, government formation. After five weeks since the general election, Fine Gael and Fianna Fail have actually spoken and the Floating Voter was wondering what took them so long. Looking back on the last seven days in Irish politics, the Floating Voter team discussed the 100th anniversary of the 1916 Rising that saw some pride and positivity around the Irish State once more. While, in the messy business of making up the numbers for government, presenter Philip Ryan was asking if Fine Gael are losing numbers and support and if the momentum is back with Fianna Fail. Plus, joining them in studio was William Lavelle, Frances Fitzgerald's special adviser who is also running for the Seanad and was nominated by the Irish Internet Association. Will there be more cat videos online we wanted to know? And in the quick-fire round, who would the Fine Gael councillor choose: Donald Trump or Micheal Martin?

We've embraced technology this week as the lads go mad for a bit of skype. We talk about the atrocities in Paris, UFC 193, Lindsey's MMA debut, Mero's basketball blues and all of this before we even get onto our guest! Danny & Mero travelled out to North great George's Street in Dublin to meet its most famous resident. Senator David Norris has been a member of Seanad Eireann since 1987 and has campaigned for human & civil rights for over 40 years. From playing a vital part in the rehabilitation of James Joyce into Irish society, Senator Norris was also one of the key figures in two of the biggest referenda in the history of the Irish Republic. The defeat of the motion to abolish the Senate and the history making success story behind the Marriage Equality referendum. We spoke to the Senator about his love of Joyce, his love of jazz and classical music. Born in the Belgian Congo, David tells us about his family tree and his famous ancestors including Earls, Pawnbrokers and Drunken Soldiers. We also hear his opinion on the West's interference in the Middle East as well as a story about a meeting with Sadam Hussein's foreign minister. From bringing the Irish State through the courts to legalize homosexuality all the way to seeing the Irish people make history by legalizing same sex marriage by popular vote - David Norris has seen Ireland grow, evolve and adapt and he told us all about his life in the process. As always you can check out our previous chapters on iTunes, Stitcher and all podcast outlets, tweet us @wtspod @merriganmania @lindseydoylePT and @danjomurray Like, Share, Review, and let us know what you think! 

Marie-Louise Muir meets Ireland's artists at the former ancestral home of theatre impresario Sir Tyrone Guthrie. Before his death in 1971, giant of world theatre and pioneer of the open stage, Sir Tyrone Guthrie, bequeathed his ancestral home at Annaghmakerrig, County Monaghan, to the Irish State as a residential workplace and retreat for artists. Today 'The Tyrone Guthrie Centre at Annaghmakerrig' continues to function as a vital cog within the creative landscape of writers, composers, painters and dancers from Northern Ireland, the Irish Republic and beyond. It's a flagship example of cross-border co-operation, dependent on joint funding from Arts Councils on both sides of the Irish border and could be seen as a barometer of the nation's cultural health overall. Crucially, Guthrie stated in his will that a condition of any residency at Annaghmakerrig would be that guests sit together for dinner each evening in the dining room of this historic house set among the rolling hills of the Irish countryside. Now arts journalist and broadcaster, Marie-Louise Muir, is joined for 'Dinner At Annaghmakerrig' by Irish composer Neil Martin, Belfast born visual artist Rita Duffy and former Creative Director of Dublin's Abbey theatre, Christopher Fitzsimon. Together, over fine food and against a backdrop of archival recordings of the great man himself, they share their perspectives on Guthrie's gift and legacy and explain what they believe to be the role of the arts and the artist in Irish society today. Producer: Conor Garrett.

This episode features Irish actor/performer/novelist Gerald Mannix Flynn (Born in Dublin 1957). He has performed in film for over 25 years. In 1983 he published the novel Nothing To Say. His plays: The Liberty Suite (1977);  He who laughs wins (1981); Inside for RTÉ (1986); Hunger and Thirst (1989); Talking to the Wall performed by Flynn @ Edinburgh Festival (1997); Screenplays Twist of Fate (Trisquare Films 1998) & Alma Mater (2001); James X (2003), performed in Dublin, Berkeley, Cincinnati, the Venice Biennale, London, & New York. Irish Times reviewer Fintan O'Toole on James X:  "It is about us collectively, the things done in our name by the bodies that are supposed to represent us. It is our secret history offered to us to pour over and consume, to acknowledge and own." His documentary 'Way Out' deals w/multi-generational issues surrounding institutional control over families, performance of inclusion, & owning ones own history and destiny. He serves as Councillor to Dublin City Council for the SE Inner City Area.  He is a member of Aosdána & on the board of the Toscaireacht. This summer he ran the Marathon Irish festival to coincide with London 2012 Olympics at Dialogue Space. He will perform James X in Krakow, part of the Conrad Festival; both James X & Nothing to Say have been published in Polish (10/24/12).  He will be in Waterford, Ireland (Imagine Festival); Magdalene Laundry exhibition (London 11/01/12), Dialogue Space (2013) bringing groups & speakers to address Slave labour, trafficked children, the rights of the mothers and children, and how the State and Church controls large swathes of society.  His current project "Trafficked: Bought & Sold/The Gathering Ireland: Bringing home the Irish citizens that were sold abroad," seeks justice for Irish children who were sold/transported abroad by the Irish State and the Catholic Church.

Fintan O Toole, Irelands foremost cultural commentator and assistant editor for The Irish Times, discusses the country's robust cultural landscape, which continues to flourish amidst tough economic times. Joined by Margaret Spillane, culture and politics writer for The Nation and other magazines, to discuss what the historic social and civic significance of the arts has been in Ireland? How have Irish cultural traditions evolved and what do cultural commentators think about the Irish state of mind?

This is a documentary about the Irish National Archives and its destruction in 1922. The archives holds the records of the modern Irish State which document its historical evolution and the creation of our national identity. (First Broadcast 1991)