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Thank you for deciding to listen to this podcast of the Radio 4 edition of From Our Own Correspondent,

which was first broadcast on Thursday the 23rd of February 2017 and with stories of whistleblowers, gravediggers and clam feasts,

here's Kate Aidey.

Hello, today fighting is intensifying for the city of

Mosul in Iraq. Ordinary work comes to a halt, but we hear the

gravediggers are busy. The Cold War is remembered by our

correspondent searching for an old contact in Ukraine.

With a new man in the White House, everyone's pondering the future, including Puerto Rico,

and further south we savour the clams in Chile. The Irish Prime Minister

the T-Shock Ende Kenny has confirmed that he'll be making the traditional

St Patrick's day visit to Washington to present the American president with a bowl of

Shamrock. Not unusual but he comes after a shaky week for the Irish government.

Even those within his own party had called for him to resign. He says he'll deal with his future once he's back

from Washington. The pressure on him involves a complicated case which began years ago,

about a police whistleblower who became the victim of a smear campaign.

Questions about who did what went to the very top of government.

Vincent Woods says it's raised even bigger questions about Ireland.

The word informer is a particularly loaded one in Ireland, loaded as a gun.

Whistleblower is a much more recent coinage, but I suspect that many caught in the fallout from

Whistleblower's revelations may mutter informer under their breath and wish them no little harm.

No work of fiction could equal the still unfolding plots surrounding

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