Irish President Catherine Connolly with Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelensky and First Lady Olena Zelenska at Aras an Uachtarain, Dublin, December 2, 2025 (Tony Maxwell/Maxwells/PA Wire)
EA-The Dark State Podcast: Ireland’s Security Threatened Between Trump and Putin
I joined a panel on the Brendan O’Connor Show on Ireland’s RTE Radio 1 on Sunday for a 55-minute Week in Review.
We consider the first 100 days of the Irish Presidency of Catherine Connolly, with her relative silence a benefit both at home and abroad.
We discuss the Trump camp’s abuses through the mass detention and deportation of immigrants and asylum-seekers, including the case of the Irish citizen Seamus Culleton.
We consider calls to boycott Ireland’s international football matches with Israel later this year.
But unfortunately, time runs out before I can intervene over a caricature to deny transgender rights, with columnist Brenda Power exploiting the mass killing of ten people in Canada to push misinformation and polemic.
The other panellists are lawyer Maria Steen, who just fell short of the required nominations to run for President last year; behavioral scientist Pete Lunn; and Sunday Times columnist Alison O’Connor.
