HeyJaredThe Ireland Podcast
About the PodcastThe Ireland Podcast is a long-form interview series creating space for unhurried conversation about life on the island of Ireland and beyond.The ConversationsHosted by Fender Jackson and produced by Salthill Media, the podcast centres on listening rather than…
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241. Ireland’s Immigration Debate: Housing, Identity & Integration | Keire Murphy (opens the original)
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Keire Murphy is a policy researcher, migration expert and public commentator. After spending four years conducting migration research at the Economic and Social Research Institute, she recently began working independently as a researcher, writer and podcaster. In this long-form conversation, we examine Ireland’s changing population, the relationship between immigration and housing, labour shortages, citizenship, family reunification, integration and what it means to be Irish in an increasingly d
240. Trump in Doonbeg: What Do the Locals Really Think? (opens the original)
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Fender Jackson travelled to Doonbeg on Saturday, 12 September 2026, as President Trump arrived in Ireland for the Irish Open. Rather than trying to answer the question from a studio, The Ireland Podcast took to the streets to speak to the people who were there: locals, protesters, visitors, businesspeople and others drawn to the village by an extraordinary weekend. The responses range from fierce opposition to strong support - while others separate their views of Trump the politician from the im
239. Ireland: The Outlier - Understanding Ireland’s Sympathy for Palestine (opens the original)
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Why is Ireland an outlier when it comes to public attitudes towards Israel and Palestine? Fender Jackson speaks with political scientists Dr Liam Kneafsey of Trinity College Dublin and Dr Miceal Canavan of Queen’s University Belfast about their new research examining why Irish public opinion differs so markedly from that of many other Western countries. Based on a nationally representative survey of 1,547 people in the Republic of Ireland, their research explores the role of Ireland’s history, m
238. Dr Richard Hogan: Parenting, Smartphones, Divorce & Modern Family Life (opens the original)
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How do we raise children in a world increasingly dominated by smartphones and social media? And what happens to family relationships when parents separate, siblings fall out, or boys struggle to understand what masculinity means? Dr Richard Hogan is a family psychotherapist, author, Irish Examiner columnist and media contributor. In this conversation with Fender Jackson, Richard discusses parenting teenagers in the smartphone age, setting boundaries around technology, keeping phones out of bedro
237. Gavin Friday: Art, Music, Bowie, U2 & Becoming Yourself (opens the original)
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Gavin Friday invites Fender Jackson to his home in Dublin for a wide-ranging conversation about music, art, performance and becoming yourself. From growing up as an outsider in 1960s and 70s Dublin and discovering David Bowie, to the formation of the Virgin Prunes, his friendship and creative work with U2, and a solo career that has continually crossed the boundaries between music, theatre, cabaret and visual art, Gavin reflects on the experiences that shaped him. The conversation explores creat
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