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The Deirdre O'Shaughnessy Podcast focuses on the biggest, best and quirkiest stories from the Irish Examiner's unrivalled team of reporters and contributors. If you want the latest news, the best insight into what’s happening in Cork and around Munster, and the inside track on our exclusive national stories, look no further.  Dropping twice a week on Tuesdays and Fridays, the Deirdre O'Shaughnessy Podcast will help you stay up to date with the Irish Examiner's best content. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

  1. A battle for the skies, with Emer Walsh

    4D AGO

    A battle for the skies, with Emer Walsh

    Earlier this week, word began circulating among drone operators in Cork – architects, roofers, corporate video creators and wedding photographers – of a new rule requiring two days' notice of intention to fly a drone over large swathes of the city. The IAA had announced the new rule, which comes into effect today, quickly and with little fanfare, and as the Irish Examiner's Emer Walsh reported on Monday, the operators were not happy.   What is the new rule, who’s impacted, and – perhaps most importantly – who stands to benefit? Business reporter Emer Walsh explains the issues on today’s episode of The Deirdre O’Shaughnessy Podcast. Alan Healy: There is a battle brewing over Cork's airspace that will be repeated across Ireland New drone flight restrictions to come into force across Cork city ieExplains: What are the new drone flight restrictions in Cork and why are they coming into effect?   Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

    21 min

  2. FEB 10

    Moving away from US tech, with Brian Honan

    Big Tech products like Whatsapp, Microsoft Office and the Apple iPhone have become essential to our daily lives, but as President Trump’s tantrums come and go, European reliance on American technology has come into focus. Trade relationships, including supplies of fuel, food and information are all now subject to the whims of an increasingly erratic US President. As state surveillance increases on US citizens, Europeans have become more aware that the technology underpinning daily life is largely controlled by US companies. Reports in relation to sanctions against UN Special Rapporteur on Gaza Francesca Albanese, who is Italian, or French ICC judge Nicolas Guillou, have been eye opening. Neither can access the most basic services including banking, credit cards and email. European alternatives to Microsoft products are now being employed by the French Government following testimony from a Microsoft France executive who acknowledged that US law would take primacy over the GDPR and other European regulations, if challenged. Today’s guest on the podcast is cybersecurity expert Brian Honan, who has been writing in the Irish Examiner about how we can move to secure our tech in the face of increasing tensions with the US. Why a gradual move away from US tech is a good idea Yanis Varoufakis: Europe should be convulsing at US sanctions against French ICC judge Trump sanctions on International Criminal Court prosecutor halt tribunal’s work     Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

    38 min
  3. Living with the Inuit with Geraldine Osborne

    FEB 6

    Living with the Inuit with Geraldine Osborne

    With Greenland in the news, Cork doctor Geraldine Osborne’s recently published account of the year she, her husband and their three small children spent living in the Arctic is timely.   Dining on seal and walrus meat in temperatures as low as –40, travelling by dog sled and sewing clothes from animal skins in the traditional Inuit way is not standard fare for a doctor on a sabbatical, but it makes a fascinating story.     With insights into the Inuit way of life in Canada and Greenland, and the impact of climate change, this is a unique look at a world that has all but vanished with the melting polar ice.  Dr Geraldine Osborne, author of Somewhere Cold, is the guest on today’s episode of the Deirdre O’Shaughnessy Podcast.   Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

    34 min
  4. A decade of deception catches up with Catherine O'Brien - with Ann Murphy

    FEB 3

    A decade of deception catches up with Catherine O'Brien - with Ann Murphy

    Last month in a Waterford courtroom, the past finally caught up with Catherine O’Brien. The Buttevant woman, who’s been the subject of Irish Examiner investigations for a number of years, including the podcast series Catherine the Fake, was sentenced to 25 months in prison for fraud.  But this is not the end of this story – as Ann Murphy reports, a judgment against O’Brien ordering her to repay €300,000 to the estate of a woman, now dead, who had loaned her the money on the basis of their friendship is now back in the frame.   Ann Murphy is the guest on the podcast today.   Fraudster Catherine O’Brien failed to repay money to estate of elderly woman she scammed of €250,000  Fraudster Catherine O’Brien sentenced for scamming elderly man out of €22k over fake horse    Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

    20 min
  5. Minneapolis under siege – with Sean Murray

    JAN 30

    Minneapolis under siege – with Sean Murray

    The scenes from Minneapolis are by now familiar to anyone with a smartphone or a television. Masked, unidentified agents of ICE, Trump’s immigration force, dragging people from cars, taking children from their parents and shooting civilians Renee Nicole Good and Alex Pretti. Irish Examiner reporter Sean Murray has just returned from the twin cities and he is speaking to Deirdre on the podcast today. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

    31 min
  6. Obsession, manipulation and murder: The death of Bruna Fonseca

    JAN 27

    Obsession, manipulation and murder: The death of Bruna Fonseca

    In 2022, 28 year old librarian Bruna Fonseca fulfilled a lifelong dream to travel to Ireland from her home in Brazil. She was attending English classes in Cork, sending money home from her work as a hospital cleaner and embarking on a new relationship with a fellow student when her life was brutally cut short by Miller Pacheco, the obsessive ex-boyfriend who refused to acknowledge their relationship was over. Last week Pacheco was convicted of her murder, despite his claims of self-defence. The evidence of his obsession, his refusal to let her get on with her life, and his actions in the early hours of 1 January 2023 proved overwhelming, with the jury reaching a unanimous verdict after just over an hour deliberating. Bruna’s family and friends paid tribute to her after the trial, with her cousin Marcela Fonseca pointing out the injustice of what was done to her. “A man decides to take someone's life. And the question that remains is: how little is our life worth? A life that was taken because a woman was not allowed to move on, to choose, to love, to live her own life." The Irish Examiner’s court reporter Liam Heylin reported on the trial. He’s the guest on today’s episode. Man faces mandatory life sentence for murder of Bruna Fonseca in Cork 'Not driven by hate, but by love': family’s words after Bruna Fonseca verdict ‘There is not a day I don’t want to be next to you’: Bruna Fonseca killer’s posts laid bare Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

    28 min
  7. Humanitarian Sean Binder’s fight for justice

    JAN 23

    Humanitarian Sean Binder’s fight for justice

    Sean Binder from Castlegregory, Co Kerry, was an idealistic 24 year old with a law degree, a scuba diving qualification and some time to spare when he decided to spend a year helping the Greek Coastguard to rescue refugees from drowning off the island of Lesvos. Eight years later, he and 23 other volunteers have finally been acquitted of serious criminal charges including people smuggling, belonging to a criminal organisation, and espionage. Thousands of refugees are still attempting the dangerous journey from North Africa and the Middle East to reach Europe by sea – but since charges were brought against the volunteers, fewer rescues are taking place, and evidence is mounting that Greek security forces are pushing back boats to Libyan or Turkish waters, contrary to international law. Irish Examiner reporter Liz Dunphy has been covering the case in Lesvos and is today’s guest on the podcast.   Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

    33 min
  8. Mad King Donald, with Marion McKeone

    JAN 20

    Mad King Donald, with Marion McKeone

    From kidnapping the Venezuelan President to unleashing a masked paramilitary force on his own people, from threatening to invade Greenland to sulking over the Nobel Peace Prize in an unhinged letter to the Norwegian Prime Minister, Donald Trump has never been so volatile, or so dangerous. “He believes in the second term that nobody can stop him. In the first term, he didn't really know his way around the White House. He didn't know his way around the political machines. “But also this time he's surrounded by people who just will not say no to him. Marion McKeone has been writing about American politics for decades, and her article in Monday’s Irish Examiner laid out the Greenland situation starkly. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

    52 min
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The Deirdre O'Shaughnessy Podcast focuses on the biggest, best and quirkiest stories from the Irish Examiner's unrivalled team of reporters and contributors. If you want the latest news, the best insight into what’s happening in Cork and around Munster, and the inside track on our exclusive national stories, look no further.  Dropping twice a week on Tuesdays and Fridays, the Deirdre O'Shaughnessy Podcast will help you stay up to date with the Irish Examiner's best content. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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