Mary Immaculate College

Ni hao, and welcome to Century Recasting, the podcast where we take 21st century actors, stick them in a time machine, and put them in 20th century movies.

I'm John O'Donnell, and joining me this week is a lecturer who is a member of the Young Academy of Ireland and associate professor in Mary Immaculate College, where she teaches literature.

Deirdre Flynn, welcome to Century Recasting.

Welcome to me.

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Students at Mary Immaculate College in Limerick are facing a wait of several more months to graduate after the college postponed all of its October conferring ceremonies until the spring.

The college says the decision was taken because of uncertainty around planned industrial action and because it could not guarantee that the ceremonies could go ahead to the standard graduates deserve.

Emma O'Leary is a newly qualified primary teacher for Mary Immaculate College.

She was due to graduate on the 23rd of October.

Emma, welcome to Limerick Today.

How are you?

I'm good, thank you.

I graduated September 2006, 20 years ago from Mary Immaculate College.

I had 18 wonderful months there.

I did the postgraduate entry to primary teaching.

Finally, it's a great weekend to be a subeditor, the ranks of whom had so much fun with President Trump's unity remarks this weekend.

It's a nation dance again for the Irish Sunday Mirror, and my favorite this morning, thanks to the subs at The Irish Sun on Sunday, where their splash is, "Make Ireland state again." Well, joining me in studio this morning to discuss Trump and so much more besides is Sinéad Cowan, executive director of the independent think tank TASC; uh, Professor Niamh Horrigan, sociologist and vice president of Academic Affairs at Mary Immaculate College in Limerick; Louise Byrne, the political correspondent at The Irish Examiner; and last but not least, blessed amongst women, four of us, in fact [laughs], is David Quinn, commentator and CEO of the Iona Institute.

We've got to be kind, girls.

Uh, but first of all, pop your earphones on, 'cause I want to go across to, um, Radio One reporter Brian O'Connell, who is still on site at Doonbeg at the Amgen Irish Open.