Taking sides on Israel and Palestine, health money pit, flooding hits Cork

<p>Pat Leahy and Jack Horgan-Jones join Hugh Linehan to look at the week in Irish politics: </p><p><br></p><ul><li>Foreign policy came to Dáil Éireann as Government and opposition <a href="https://www.irishtimes.com/politics/oireachtas/2023/10/18/government-and-opposition-parties-fail-to-agree-wording-of-dail-motion-on-gaza/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">tried and failed</a> to agree a motion on the crisis in Israel and Palestine.</li></ul><p><br></p><ul><li><a href="https://www.irishtimes.com/health/2023/10/12/stephen-donnelly-admits-to-shortfall-in-health-budget-for-next-year/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Dismay </a>at the Department of Health and the HSE over a shortfall in funding for next year spills out into the open. </li></ul><p><br></p><ul><li>The political response to <a href="https://www.irishtimes.com/life-style/people/2023/10/21/cork-floods-we-couldnt-stop-the-water-it-was-coming-too-fast-it-was-coming-in-waves/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">devastating flooding in Cork</a> and the reality that climate mitigation will be among the State's biggest problems for - at least - decades to come. </li></ul><p><br></p><p>Plus the panel pick their Irish Times stories of the week: </p><br><p>Does President Michael D. Higgins <a href="https://www.irishtimes.com/world/europe/2023/10/19/why-dont-many-on-the-left-see-russia-as-a-colonial-power/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">see Russia as a colonial power</a> - and why should we care? </p><br><p><a href="https://www.irishtimes.com/culture/2023/10/21/time-out-says-smithfields-the-second-coolest-place-on-the-planet-its-not-even-the-second-coolest-place-in-dublin-7/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">A weary response</a> to Time Out's claim that Smithfield is the second-coolest place on on the planet.</p><br><p><br></p><br><p><br></p><br /><hr><p style='color:grey; font-size:0.75em;'> Hosted on Acast. See <a style='color:grey;' target='_blank' rel='noopener noreferrer' href='https://acast.com/privacy'>acast.c