Rich Country, Broken State

The David McWilliams Podcast by David McWilliams

Jul 23, 202644:47News & Politics

Ireland has cash coming out of its ears, and nothing to show for it. Sinead O'Sullivan is back to expose the wild dysfunction inside the Irish state: no one is accountable, nothing gets finished, and the same problems ge...

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