Episode 3: The Media's Nightmare in Belfast

Writing about events in Belfast this week, our friend Cormac Lucy said, "Import the culture, import the consequences." Was he right? That's what Sarah and I will be talking about this week.

[intro music] Hello, and welcome to Something Different with John McGuirk and Sarah Ryan for this week ending the 12th of June 2025.

In many ways, a banner week, uh, in Ireland.

Um, obviously everyone knows what the main story was, and we'll be getting to that.

But before I introduce Sarah, and before I say hello, I just want to remind all of you who are listeners to this podcast, the very many thousands of you who've listened on YouTube, Apple and, um, Spotify over the last couple of weeks, to like and subscribe if you may, because that helps us reach more listeners.

We're very grateful to the ba- vast number of you who've already done so.

Um, and we are delighted with the community that this podcast is building.