Drop Site News founding editor Nausicaa Renner joins us to talk about journalism and politics in the US today.

The Party Line is a podcast from The Ditch, news and comment from Ireland, ontheditch.com – hosted by Harry Browne and Niamh Ní Bhriain, with Eoghan McNeill of The Ditch.

Ditch stories discussed: https://www.ontheditch.com/ghislaine-maxwells-lawyer/ and https://www.ontheditch.com/can-you-call-me-back-in-20-minutes/

Drop Site News story discussed: https://www.dropsitenews.com/p/canary-mission-israel-megamot-shalom-highest-paid-employees

Nausicaa's 'Party and Class': https://newleftreview.org/issues/ii157/articles/nausicaa-renner-party-and-class

Music: Fionn Dempsey

Recording and editing: Emmet White

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What are the costs of the Irish economic strategy of foreign direct investment – in terms of politics, ethics, and quality of life?

The Party Line is a podcast from The Ditch, news and comment from Ireland, ontheditch.com – hosted by Niamh Ní Bhriain and Paulie Doyle of The Ditch, with guests Paddy Bresnihan of Maynooth University and Pat Brodie of University College Dublin.

Ditch stories discussed: https://www.ontheditch.com/department-of-enterprise-increases-military/ and https://www.ontheditch.com/green-party-byelection-candidate-owns-shares-in-us-company-operating-in-illegal-israeli-settlements/

'Ireland: the weak link in Europe's defense': https://tinyurl.com/yc7chsav

From the Bog to the Cloud: https://bristoluniversitypress.co.uk/from-the-bog-to-the-cloud

The Price of Prosperity: https://tinyurl.com/55xbk9x6

Music: Fionn Dempsey

Recording and editing: Emmet White, Justin Young

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Have corrupt and perverse Western elites got particularly bad at ruling?

A podcast from The Ditch, news and comment from Ireland, ontheditch.com – hosted by Niamh Ní Bhriain and Harry Browne, with Paulie Doyle of The Ditch and guest Andy Storey

Ditch stories we discussed: https://www.ontheditch.com/fianna-fail-byelection-candidate-john-stephens/

https://www.ontheditch.com/fianna-fail-byelection-candidate-lied/

https://www.ontheditch.com/us-funded-munitions-on-israeli-national-airline/ (Note: as this story makes clear, the munitions were cargo on a commercial passenger flight: there was some confusion in the pod discussion on this point.)

Andy in Rebel News and Jacobin: https://rebelnews.ie/2026/03/31/venezuela-and-the-us-ruling-class/

https://jacobin.com/2025/12/larry-summers-epstein-economic-democrats

'Why are social media accounts linked to Iran, Russia and China posting about Ireland?' https://tinyurl.com/2usuewtj

Music: Fionn Dempsey

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Editing: Emmet White, Macro AV

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It wasn't just influencers and 'luxury leftists' on the Nuestra América aid convoy – co-host Niamh Ní Bhriain was one of the 19 Irish participants among more than 600 activists.

The Party Line is a podcast from The Ditch, ontheditch.com. Joining Niamh are co-host Harry Browne and Roman Shortall of The Ditch – who explains the Ditch's development as a transparency non-profit as well as a journalism site.

Niamh in the Irish Examiner: https://www.irishexaminer.com/opinion/commentanalysis/arid-41817986.html

'Kneecap's Breathtaking Hypocrisy': https://tinyurl.com/4w2w395p

Music by Fionn Dempsey

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Editing: Emmet White, Macro AV

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Rebecca O'Keeffe of Irish Sport for Palestine breaks down why Israel should long ago have been barred from international sport – and why it still hasn't happened.

A podcast from The Ditch, ontheditch.com – hosted by Niamh Ní Bhriain and Harry Browne, with Roman Shortall of The Ditch

'Ag insint bréaga: taoiseach lied to journalists about armed US soldiers at Shannon Airport': https://www.ontheditch.com/ag-insint-breaga-taoiseach/

Rebecca in Al Jazeera: https://www.aljazeera.com/opinions/2026/2/22/uefa-and-fifa-may-get-a-red-card-at-the-icc-for-ignoring-israeli-violations

Irish Sport for Palestine: https://www.instagram.com/irishsportforpalestine/

'Ireland's neutrality a "difficult path" to follow, senior official says': https://tinyurl.com/35xmn56a

Music: Fionn Dempsey

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It definitely didn't start with Trump.

Gaza photojournalist Eman Mohammed joined Eoghan McNeill of The Ditch and pod host Harry Browne live at the launch party for Dublin's Whistleblower building on Saturday, March 21st.

We talk Iran war, Gaza's view of the White House, representing Palestinian queers, and much more.

Her Substack and podcast: https://www.daftar.ie/

Fintan O'Toole in the New York Review of Books, 'Signifying Absolutely Nothing': https://tinyurl.com/4yjbkwtt

Nikhil Pal Singh in Equator, 'Homeland Empire': https://www.equator.org/articles/homeland-empire-trump-ICE

Eamonn Andrews stayed with Mountbatten, in The Ditch: https://www.ontheditch.com/ex-rte-chairman/

Music by Fionn Dempsey

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Macroom man Morgan McSweeney and his chosen frontman Keir Starmer engineered a vicious campaign to crush the Left and usher in a Labour Party leadership more in tune with the Mandelson-Epstein axis.

Paul Holden has written the definitive book about this project – and been on the receiving end of the same cynical smearing that powered Starmer's ascent.

The Party Line, the new podcast from The Ditch, is hosted this week by Harry Browne and Paulie Doyle.

The Fraud is published by OR Books: https://orbooks.com/catalog/the-fraud/

'Morgan McSweeney, the workaholic Irishman who built Starmer’s Labour': https://tinyurl.com/4u9sucd2

More on Morgan McSweeney's background here: https://extra.ie/2024/10/15/news/morgan-mcsweeney-father

Stories from The Ditch we discussed:

https://www.ontheditch.com/patricks-day-government-shannon/

https://www.ontheditch.com/psni-wont-confirm/

Music by Fionn Dempsey

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First in a new series of podcasts from The Ditch, hosted by Niamh Ní Bhriain and Harry Browne – with the team from The Ditch: Eoghan McNeill, Paulie Doyle and Roman Shortall

(Note and apology: the sound quality improves after the first few minutes!)

Stories in The Ditch that we discussed:

https://www.ontheditch.com/up-to-eu800-million-record-arms-purchase-involves-member-of-lobbying-group-part-owned-by-french-state/

https://www.ontheditch.com/irish-daily-mail-israel/

https://www.ontheditch.com/eu-plans-for-the-rapid-movement-of-nato/

Irish Times 'Year of the French part II' is here.

Armoured cars and tanks and guns

The Irish Government's recently published 'maritime security strategy' is here.

Music by Fionn Dempsey

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