What just happened in Ireland?
The Europeans | European news, politics and culture
Katy Lee and Dominic Kraemer
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🗓️ 12 February 2020
⏱️ 29 minutes
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Summary
Something huge just happened in Irish politics, but as outsiders it's difficult to understand what exactly. Naomi O'Leary from the excellent podcast The Irish Passport is here to untangle everything for us. Also this week: coronavirus racism, a step forward for LGBTQ+ rights in Switzerland, and what happens when a celeb does the 'double-clicky-likey-thing' on one of your social media posts.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to the Europeans podcast, coming to you from a very rainy and windy Amsterdam. |
| 0:23.5 | And Paris. |
| 0:24.5 | And Paris. |
| 0:25.5 | Okay. |
| 0:26.0 | Yeah, I was going to get there. |
| 0:27.3 | No, I mean the whole windy and wet thing. |
| 0:30.1 | I wanted to just clarify that it's those things here too. |
| 0:32.9 | And cold. |
| 0:33.8 | I feel like I have to stop my teeth from chattering. |
| 0:35.9 | We may have been annoyed about the wind |
| 0:38.2 | of the rain, but some people in the Netherlands were really happy about it because when there's |
| 0:42.1 | this much wind, they run a cycling competition for people to cycle into a headwind, which I thought |
| 0:49.2 | was the most Dutch thing ever and also my worst nightmare but yeah apparently some people do it as an |
| 0:56.5 | enjoyable competitive sport it's the perfect place for this competition um I once cycled on I feel like |
| 1:02.8 | it's the world's flattest island have you been to tessel in the Netherlands I've spent a lot of time |
| 1:06.9 | on tesskaling which is the island next to t Ah, I think they're both pretty flat, but... |
| 1:11.6 | They are and both very windy. |
| 1:13.4 | You're like pedaling and pedaling and just not moving. |
| 1:16.1 | It's like you're in a spinning class or something. |
| 1:18.7 | It's crazy. |
| 1:19.9 | In fact, it's the one time I've used an electric bike was on Teskelling and it was amazing. |
| 1:24.4 | I mean, Katie knows all about electric bikes. |
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