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The Mick Clifford Podcast Irish Examiner

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    • 4.4 • 62 Ratings

Podcast by Irish Examiner
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    LUCK OF THE IRISH PREMIER: Elaine Loughlin

    LUCK OF THE IRISH PREMIER: Elaine Loughlin

    One of the perks of the job of being Taoiseach is apparently the invite to the White House for St Patrick’s Day, a privilege that is afforded few foreign leaders. Leo Varadkar is over this year but he has a lot on his mind. He has to step lightly around hosts whose stance on Israel and Gaza is at odds with that of most of the world, including Ireland. And he also is burdened with reflection on a disastrous referendum outcome for his government. Joining him in DC, among the travelling media, is Irish Examiner Political Editor Elaine Loughlin, this week’s guest on the podcast.
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    • 32 min
    EYEWITNESS: Eamonn Mallie

    EYEWITNESS: Eamonn Mallie

    Through the years of the violence in Northern Ireland one distinctive voice was frequently heard across all airwaves. Eamonn Mallie didn’t speak with a typical South Armagh accent but it was from there he was sprung and he went on to be one of the leading reporters of the conflict in the North. Now he has written a book about his experiences, the stories he broke, his encounters with the men of violence and a highly unlikely friendship with the firebrand unionist, Ian Paisley. Eamonn Mallie is this week’s guest on the podcast.
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    • 40 min
    RECONCILING WITH THE PAST

    RECONCILING WITH THE PAST

    This week Mick sat down with a group formed a few years ago from descendants of those who were involved in signing the Anglo-Irish Treaty. And it wasn’t just those who were on the pro-treaty side that were part of this group, but also a grandson of Cathal Brugha and a grand nephew of Harry Boland. The group is pushing hard for a national day of reconciliation to be formed and they made a compelling case.
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    • 41 min
    DENIS MINIHANE: SNAPPING AT HISTORY’S HEELS

    DENIS MINIHANE: SNAPPING AT HISTORY’S HEELS

    Press photography may be a dying art but one of its great practitioners over the last forty years was Denis Minihane. Recently retired after forty seven years working for the Irish Examiner, he talks about his career, the art and the craft and the historic events at which he had a front row seat. Denis is this week’s guest on the podcast. 


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    • 36 min
    SECOND CHANCE: Damien Quinn and Saoirse Brady

    SECOND CHANCE: Damien Quinn and Saoirse Brady

    People who have served a prison sentence for a criminal offence are entitled to believe that once the sentence is completed they have paid their debt to society. That does not appear to be the case. New research shows that there are huge barriers to ex-prisoners finding employment and that the past simply won’t leave them alone. Damien Quinn was one such person, who had to fight hard to rebuild his life once he finished his sentence. He and Irish Penal Reform Trust Executive Director Saoirse Brady are this week’s guests on the podcast.
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    • 38 min
    DRAWING FROM THE WELL: Mike O’Donnell

    DRAWING FROM THE WELL: Mike O’Donnell

    Mike O’Donnell is one of the only if not the only court artists currently plying his trade in this country. He covers high profile trials and draws defendants, lawyers, judges, the public, all to give an insight and flavour of the environment of a court where serious, and usually tragic, drama takes place. He currently has an exhibition in which one of the main subjects is Gerry ‘the Monk’ Hutch whose trial Mike covered. Afterwards, Hutch invited the artist to his home in Dublin where he “sat” for Mike. This week’s guest on the podcast gives a fascinating insight into his trade and those he has encountered along the way.
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    • 45 min

Customer Reviews

4.4 out of 5
62 Ratings

62 Ratings

feisty wan ,

Kerry Baby case

Mick you say “deference to Judges “ at the time of the Kerry Baby Tribunal,
What would the “decent man “ say ?
Regards
Sean Barry

Redmuck19 ,

Brilliant

Love this show.

Smearadubha ,

A must listen to

Great podcast , informative and detailed.
Well presented by a great journalist. Good man mick!!

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