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An Irishman Abroad

Mass Shootings - No End In Sight - Irishman In America

An Irishman Abroad

Jarlath Regan

Society & Culture, News, Health & Fitness, Society & Culture:personal Journals, Personal Journals, Politics

4.8834 Ratings

🗓️ 27 May 2022

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Summary

Marion McKeone (Sunday Business Post US Correspondent & regular contributor to NPR, BBC, RTE & Today FM) reflects on another grim week in America and asks whether all the outcry, political statements, thoughts and prayers will bring about any change in gun laws across America.

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0:00.0

My mother believed and my father believed that if I wanted to be President of the United States, I could be, I could be vice president.

0:06.9

Former Vice President Joe Biden has been elected president of the United States.

0:13.1

It is my greatest honor and privilege to have been your president.

0:17.1

We will be back in some form.

0:19.3

We are still deeply divided.

0:24.6

Public health experts warned this was coming unless more was done, and here we are now. Are you proud of what happened here today?

0:26.6

Absolutely.

0:27.6

Never before in American history, has there been an uprising like this?

0:31.6

Of the 75 million Americans who voted for Donald Trump, I don't know how many today are feeling,

0:38.1

dear God, what was I thinking? But I would wager a lot more our thinking, let's carry on this

0:43.5

fight. Character matters. It matters. Tell them the truth matters. The 21st century is going to be

0:50.4

the American century, because we lead not only by the example of our power but by the power

0:58.6

of our example. That is the history of the journey of America. It's the Irish man in America back

1:06.1

again with Marion McKeown on the line. Thank God. Marion, we missed you last week. I missed you too,

1:14.2

Jarlet. I would much rather have been talking to you than doing what I was doing. Trust me.

1:19.5

Hey, we got a lot of well-wishers getting in touch, hoping that you're okay and that the personal

1:25.7

circumstances weren't too severe. But everybody needs a

1:30.2

week off. And I think that having the week without you on the show, let people hear your backstory

1:36.2

in us re-releasing your first conversation with me, which seems like an eternity ago. It's only

1:43.1

three years ago. I suppose so much has

1:47.2

happened in the three years since we started chatting every week. And there's a weird thing with time,

1:53.5

that elasticity, that sometimes it seems that it's been only two weeks ago since we started doing

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