{"id":74221,"date":"2025-09-19T22:43:16","date_gmt":"2025-09-19T22:43:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/74221\/"},"modified":"2025-09-19T22:43:16","modified_gmt":"2025-09-19T22:43:16","slug":"declan-lynch-from-speaking-rights-to-cadaver-dogs-our-obsession-with-local-issues-rumbles-on-despite-the-global-catastrophes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/74221\/","title":{"rendered":"Declan Lynch: From speaking rights to cadaver dogs, our obsession with local issues rumbles on, despite the global catastrophes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-91174671_secondary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom4 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop4\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\" data-testid=\"title-summary\">\nRadio reviews\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Claire Byrne is leaving RT\u00c9 for a new role in Newstalk. Photo: Andres Poveda\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/e453def7-309a-400e-b5ed-39ceb65f9cb7.jpg\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"100%\" data-testid=\"article-image\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_caption1 indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_secondary indo-66f0fec7_regular indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop3 indo-b48c4984_left\" style=\"color:var(--color-grey-60)\">Claire Byrne is leaving RT\u00c9 for a new role in Newstalk. Photo: Andres Poveda<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">I started a thread in this column a while back, keeping track of Ireland\u2019s \u00adlittle local difficulties which were helping to distract us from global catastrophes.<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">These included the D\u00e1il \u201cspeaking rights\u201d shambles; a News at One item about An Garda S\u00edoch\u00e1na needing a cadaver dog; the revelation on prime daytime radio that there is no mandatory training and testing system for tractor drivers. I\u2019d add the weeks of obsession about the presidential election to the list \u2013 the  political class was reaching for that comfort blanket far too early. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Radio reviews Claire Byrne is leaving RT\u00c9 for a new role in Newstalk. Photo: Andres Poveda I started&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":74222,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[75],"tags":[4750,4573,356,18,117,19,17,23942,18578],"class_list":{"0":"post-74221","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-entertainment","8":"tag-barack-obama","9":"tag-declan-lynch","10":"tag-donald-trump","11":"tag-eire","12":"tag-entertainment","13":"tag-ie","14":"tag-ireland","15":"tag-people-culture-magazine","16":"tag-social-democrats"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74221","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=74221"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74221\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/74222"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=74221"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=74221"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=74221"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}