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Ciarán Dold

Ciarán Dold

Irish comedian and podcaster based in Berlin; co-host of Corner Späti, an English-language political comedy podcast focused on European affairs

Jul 17, 2026

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Jul 17 · 1h 5m

Gareth Lyons
Gareth LyonsHOST
32:25
Do you know in general? It's just a general sort of ennui that I'm feeling with Irish politics.
Ciarán Dold
Ciarán DoldGUEST
32:34
Yeah, I think like both of these kind of tie in nicely because it does feel like there's just been this embrace of like the pettiest authoritarianism.
Ciarán Dold
Ciarán DoldGUEST
32:50
Like such low stakes authoritarianism of like Yeah, I don't know what's really causing it, but I do remember...
Ciarán Dold
Ciarán DoldGUEST
33:01
I remember Silly Season, as you've called it, from my youth, based on the phoned-in bullshit articles that would come out.
Ciarán Dold
Ciarán DoldGUEST
33:10
Because they'd be like, well, you could have run this any time of the year.
Ciarán Dold
Ciarán DoldGUEST
33:13
It's actually not in any way dependent on context.
Ciarán Dold
Ciarán DoldGUEST
33:18
The two classics, which I think I said in the WhatsApp to you beforehand, were the...

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Gareth Lyons
Gareth LyonsHOST
45:00
And it's like,

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