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Journalist @IrishTimes. Podcast presenter - In the News. Writer, editor, lecturer. Insta: IrishMaterialCulture Bernice.Harrison@irishtimes.com

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How Conor McGregor went from Podcast Episode · In The News · 21/03/2025 · 25m

In today’s In the News podcast 🎧 crime corr ⁦‪@ConorGallaghe_r‬⁩ tracks Conor McGregor’s changing politics ⁦‪@IrishTimes‬⁩ Listen here 👇
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21.03.2025 12:39 — 👍 4    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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The 100 best Irish books of the 21st century: how we made the list and what it says about the state of Irish fiction The Irish Times assembled a panel of 60 experts to select the best Irish books of the years 2000-2025. Here’s how we did it

The 100 best Irish books of the 21st century: how we made the list and what it says about the state of Irish fiction

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15.03.2025 06:37 — 👍 22    🔁 11    💬 0    📌 4
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In The News News Podcast · 777 Episodes

For today’s podcast I learned a lot about @ManUtd, the Glazer family, Jim Ratcliffe and the eyewatering money sloshing around football ⚽️ with @kenearlys 🎧 @IrishTimes podcasts.apple.com/ie/podcast/i...

14.03.2025 11:18 — 👍 3    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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'We believe in the healing power of God': How a religious sect in Australia left an eight-year-old girl to die When the parents of eight-year-old Elizabeth Struhs stopped giving her the insulin she needed to control her diabetes, they thought God would cure her.And when the little girl slowly died in their home in the Australian city of Toowoomba they and other members of the Saints, a religious sect stood by waiting for her to rise from the dead.The details that emerged at the trial in Queensland of the 14 members of the cult were harrowing. The court heard that the child’s father Jason Struhs finally called emergency services 36 hours after his daughter’s death, saying “though God would still raise Elizabeth, they could not leave a corpse in the house”.Both Jason and her mother Kerrie Struhs were found guilty of manslaughter. The sect’s leader, Brendan Stevens was found guilty of manslaughter for encouraging the father to withhold insulin from his daughter in January 2022.The Saints are a conservative Christian sect made up mostly of three families who believe in speaking in tongues and who reject modern medicine as “witchcraft”.The 14 will be sentenced on February 11th.Andrew Messenger from the Guardian Australia details this tragic case.Presented by Bernice Harrison. Produced by Suzanne Brennan. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

"'We Believe in the Healing Power of God': How a Religious Sect in Australia Left an Eight-Year-Old Girl to Die"
In The News @irishtimes.com @berniceharrison.bsky.social
4 Feb 2025 [0:20:53]
#Cult
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04.02.2025 22:13 — 👍 3    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

Thanks for listening!

14.02.2025 17:32 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Luis Rubiales tells court World Cup kiss was consensual In the News podcast

Talking to @berniceharrison.bsky.social about the Rubiales trial and its broader context www.irishtimes.com/podcasts/in-...

13.02.2025 15:37 — 👍 3    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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At last! I got one of the connections on Only Connect

27.01.2025 20:19 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
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The race against time to save lives in Gaza Podcast Episode · In The News · 24/01/2025 · 20m

In today’s In the News podcast 🎧 I talk to Unicef’s Rosalia Bollen about getting aid to Gaza Listen here 👇https://podcasts.apple.com/ie/podcast/in-the-news/id1566625447?i=1000685253803

24.01.2025 16:11 — 👍 4    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

Thanks Ciara!

05.01.2025 17:14 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Yes for me. Main thing is I don’t want a watch - used to have a Jawbone years ago, no screen, basic functions- excellent!

04.01.2025 07:24 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

@ciaraobrien.bsky.social can you recommend a bracelet-type fitness tracker without a watch - not a ring. (Very new year type of request!) they all seem to be watches!

31.12.2024 16:43 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
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Róisín Ingle: My profound, challenging, surprisingly joyful, life-changing year I haven’t written a personal column for around a year. There have been difficult days. I’ve also had one of the best day’s of my life
24.12.2024 06:16 — 👍 26    🔁 7    💬 5    📌 3
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The mystery is not why we Irish have responded to Israel’s barbarism. It’s why others have not I don’t believe in the idea of being on the right side of history. The histories of the future are none of our concern. Our concern is the present

The mystery is not why we Irish have responded to Israel’s barbarism. It’s why others have not

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21.12.2024 09:04 — 👍 17    🔁 6    💬 0    📌 0
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Gisèle Pelicot case: How the trial that shocked France unfolded In The News · Episode

In the News Podcast:

The Gisèle Pelicot case: How the trial that shocked France unfolded open.spotify.com/episode/6FCn...

20.12.2024 17:30 — 👍 2    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

All the evidence was there - but the sentences are shockingly low

19.12.2024 09:31 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
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Why did Israel single out Ireland and accuse Simon Harris of being 'antisemitic'? Podcast Episode · In The News · 18/12/2024 · 22m

In today’s In the News podcast 🎧 - Pat Leahy on his interview with Israeli ambassador - and Israel’s ‘slander’ of Ireland - podcasts.apple.com/ie/podcast/i...

18.12.2024 07:46 — 👍 2    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0

In which Eoin Burke-Kennedy explains why the property market is a chaotic mess - and why supply isn’t the magic solution 🎧

13.12.2024 18:04 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Yes! And ruthful, feckful, ept, wieldy, and full of gorm.

11.12.2024 08:40 — 👍 1583    🔁 194    💬 72    📌 16

“It is unconfirmed whether the clothes have been washed since the actor last wore them.”

11.12.2024 12:21 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Ed Power’s Irish Times review of #SNL 🔥 🔥 “Mescal does well – maintaining his self-respect and avoiding the worst stereotypes so beloved of Irish Americans. A qualified thumbs up – with the caveat that Saturday Night Live is where comedy goes to die and should never be watched in the first place.”

09.12.2024 10:50 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Dublin Airport has a hidden metro station. Why was it never opened? Podcast Episode · In The News · 06/12/2024 · 20m

In today’s In the News podcast 🎧 The ghost station under Dublin Airport and why it’s an example of the State’s inability to build infrastructure podcasts.apple.com/ie/podcast/i...

06.12.2024 13:06 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Annual Sculpture In Context exhibition in the Botanic Gardens on hold until organisers can find funding - Dublin Inquirer “We couldn’t continue. It’s become a full-time unpaid job,” says chairperson Jackie Ball.

Such a pity. A great (free, inspiring) exhibition Annual Sculpture In Context exhibition in the Botanic Gardens on hold until organisers can find funding dublininquirer.com/2024/12/04/a...

05.12.2024 09:35 — 👍 0    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

One more stake into media freedom…

05.12.2024 08:27 — 👍 6    🔁 4    💬 0    📌 0
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Oprah Winfrey discusses Claire Keegan’s Small Things Like These: ‘I had never heard of the Magdalene laundries’ Winfrey chose Keegan’s novella for the first instalment of her new YouTube series The Oprah Podcast
04.12.2024 13:42 — 👍 13    🔁 4    💬 0    📌 0
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What did Hunter Biden do and was President Biden wrong to pardon him? Podcast Episode · In The News · 04/12/2024 · 21m

In today’s In the News podcast 🎧 I talk to Irish Times Washington corr Keith Duggan about Biden’s presidential pardon. Why did he do it?
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04.12.2024 08:44 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Very cool 😎

03.12.2024 22:10 — 👍 5    🔁 2    💬 1    📌 0
Girls in Afghanistan are not allowed to attend school simply because they were born female. The Taliban’s ban on girls’ education has now lasted for 1,172 days, keeping 1.4 million teenage girls out of school. #LetHerLearn

Girls in Afghanistan are not allowed to attend school simply because they were born female. The Taliban’s ban on girls’ education has now lasted for 1,172 days, keeping 1.4 million teenage girls out of school. #LetHerLearn

Girls in Afghanistan are not allowed to attend school simply because they were born female. The Taliban’s ban on girls’ education has now lasted for 1,172 days, keeping 1.4 million teenage girls out of school. #LetHerLearn

01.12.2024 22:00 — 👍 26    🔁 11    💬 2    📌 0

Next time I nag my eldest child I’ll explain it’s only because of #nominativedeterminism

03.12.2024 21:21 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

This is huge fun! Find it on @bbcsounds.bsky.social 👏👏👏

03.12.2024 15:09 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Loving the new series of Now You’re Asking 👏👏👏

03.12.2024 15:08 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

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