An Irishman Abroad

It should have been a golden moment that both sides could unify on. The confirmation hearings for America’s first ever black female Supreme Court judge Ketanji Brown Jackson. Instead Ted Cruz et al turned it into the worst kind of juvenile political pantomime. Marion McKeone tries to answer the question, “Why are these hearings necessary?” In the second half of the episode she gets into the latest developments in Ukraine and why she feels President Biden isn’t doing nearly enough to help those fleeing the violence and those stranded on the ground. Finally we look at the grotesque way in which Presidential hopeful Ron Desantis has identified and leaped on what he sees as a winning political football. A power cut in St Albans cut the line between Marion and Jarlath but we still manage to get her recommendation for “What’s good this week?"   To hear every episode in full and to gain access to the entire back-catalogue of over 600 Irishman Abroad episodes that are not available on iTunes for just the price of a p