The KCLR Daily with Brian Redmond
Oct 19, 2026 · 6 min · 4 segments
George Reid – in Roscommon wants to talk about a man who was executed in Saudi Arabia. He doesn’t think we should be doing any business with that county. (The Guardian reported last week that Youssef…
Brian RedmondHostYou know how when you open your phone, a whole load of news comes up on that? I just flicked through it.
a man was executed in Saudi Arabia because he attended a protest when he was 15 years of age.
Yusuf al-Manasif, a young man who faced imminent execution, an execution that has subsequently taken place in Saudi Arabia for attending protests, as you said, George, fair play to you, and funerals when he was somewhere between the age of 15 and 17.
I take it, no, I'm not very well politically informed, but I would take it that we do business with Saudi Arabia.
because of their human rights issues, as we would see them, because it is the law of the land in Saudi Arabia and they're not the only country in the world that have the death penalty.
Should we stop doing business with certain states in America that still also have the death penalty?
But I don't think, I hate to say this, I don't think it would be practical because we have so many undocumented Irish there and like with this lunatic that they have elected at the moment.
I'm sorry to say it's probably a selfish reason, but I think it's just practical.
I would like, nothing would please me better if we were in a position to just ignore the United States.
You know how when you open your phone, a whole load of news comes up on that? I just flicked through it.
a man was executed in Saudi Arabia because he attended a protest when he was 15 years of age.
Yusuf al-Manasif, a young man who faced imminent execution, an execution that has subsequently taken place in Saudi Arabia for attending protests, as you said, George, fair play to you, and funerals when he was somewhere between the age of 15 and 17.
I take it, no, I'm not very well politically informed, but I would take it that we do business with Saudi Arabia.
because of their human rights issues, as we would see them, because it is the law of the land in Saudi Arabia and they're not the only country in the world that have the death penalty.
Should we stop doing business with certain states in America that still also have the death penalty?
But I don't think, I hate to say this, I don't think it would be practical because we have so many undocumented Irish there and like with this lunatic that they have elected at the moment.
I'm sorry to say it's probably a selfish reason, but I think it's just practical.
I would like, nothing would please me better if we were in a position to just ignore the United States.
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