Progressive Madness in Ireland - With John McGuirk
The Ann & Phelim Scoop
The Unreported Story Society
4.7 • 556 Ratings
🗓️ 8 February 2023
⏱️ 77 minutes
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Summary
On this week's Scoop, we chat with John McGuirk, the Editor in Chief at Irish media outlet, Gript.ie. John fills us in on discusses the housing and refugee crisis in Ireland and throughout Europe. He debunks an Irish Times story that accuses white Irish men of attacking a migrant camp, along with other progressive madness within Ireland .Also on the Scoop, we get into how Mr. Beast, a famous YouTuber, was labeled “ableist” by paying for eye surgery for blind people. We then dive into how the death of a mountain lion triggered a Los Angeles County-wide mourning event and how hypocritical California is in regards to protecting wildlife v human life. Finally, we leave you with a delicious beef stew recipe.
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| 0:00.0 | The country woke up essentially it was Saturday, Saturday morning, I think about the 29th of January, to this news that the Irish Times had witnessed an attack on a migrant camp, that their journalist, Kitty Holland, had just happened to be there, that men had arrived with sticks, bats, a baseball bat, and aggressive dogs, and that one man had been injured and that the |
| 0:22.7 | guardee, the Irish police, had arrived on the scene and questioned people. |
| 0:26.5 | Now the problem was that it just didn't make sense. |
| 0:31.1 | And eventually I had my colleague, eventually after several days of trying to call her, |
| 0:36.0 | ring up Kitty Holland and ask her some of these questions because she was a very hard woman to get. And on the record, on tape, to grip media, she admitted that she had never witnessed any attack. Hello, my name is Anne McElhenney. And I'm Phila McLeleur. Welcome to the Adam Phelham Scoop. It's February. |
| 0:54.9 | It's February. |
| 0:55.5 | It's February. |
| 0:56.3 | It's February. It's still really cold. It's freaking freezing. We're very upset about that. We want our money back. The tax, the crazy tax situation here is only alleviated by the fact that the weather is perfect every day. that hasn't happened since we got back from Ireland |
| 1:10.7 | so we should get the tax back. So where have we been in the last week, Phelham? Oh, we've been away, Anne. We've been away. I was in Monterey. Not Monterey. Yeah, Monterey up the coast, yeah. Yes, I was in Monterey. I'm going to say not Monterey Park, but anyway, because there was something else happened in Monterey Park. |
| 1:29.6 | So Monterey, yeah. |
| 1:30.7 | Monterey as in Carmel, as in Northern California. |
| 1:33.5 | As in one of the most beautiful places in the world. Gorgeous. It rained. What were you doing there, Anne? It rained there. I was speaking to a group of Republican women and men |
| 1:41.3 | and a very nice event actually |
| 1:43.5 | and met really, really lovely people |
| 1:45.5 | and had decided to drive actually. and men and very nice event actually and met really really lovely people |
| 1:45.5 | and had decided to drive actually |
| 1:48.0 | so I drove up it took this |
| 1:50.0 | you know of course there's three different ways I could have gone |
| 1:52.2 | in the end I took the quickest route which was like |
| 1:55.0 | five and a half hours of fairly hard driving |
| 1:57.8 | and but stunning through the centre actually of California which I've always |
| 2:01.6 | sort of dissed a bit and I shouldn't because it's really gorgeous and and also fascinating particularly |
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