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Feeling It In Your Guts! Connection vs Fracture – Episode 260

In this episode, Dara is apologising for going missing last week, but he has a good excuse – he was in hospital! Struck down with a level of pain he had never previously experienced, he had to abandon his journey to get help and have an ambulance come to the rescue. It turned out it was just a little old kidney stone! The disruption to his normally rude good health gives reason for pause. What is it to be well? And what does care look like?

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‘Adolescence’ – Harrowing, Topical, and No Easy Answers – Episode 199

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In this episode, Dara shares his response to the compelling drama series ‘Adolescence’ that recently launched on Netflix. Covering the harrowing events around a 13-year-old schoolboy murdering a female schoolmate, the show is an extraordinary dramatic and technical achievement that has found itself at the heart of the dark side of the zeitgeist – namely, the changed social landscape that shapes the minds of boys and young men in insidious online spaces that are ubiquitous, ever-accessible and distressingly persuasive.

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Abdicating Duty of Care and Living in the Age of Comedy Evil! – Episode 194

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In this broadly care-centred episode, Dara moves from inside to out. He wonders about the sense some people have of the world owing you something and decides a more worthwhile and potentially fruitful query is to ask what you might owe yourself. He reckons care, forgiveness and love are a good place to start. But they can be particularly difficult to effectively embed in one’s internal landscape.

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Caring Enough to Act, or Do I Really Need to Laugh at That? – Episode 154

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In this episode, Dara has an update on the fox situation at Hashtag Blessed and admits he views the surviving chickens differently since last week’s attack. Is it just him, or do they seem to be grieving?

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The Dublin Riots: The Denial of Dignity and the Rage of the Unloved – Episode 132

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In this episode, Dara tries to get his head around the riots that took place in Dublin recently after a violent knife attack on young children outside their school in the middle of the day. The subsequent outpouring of shock and anger escalated into a night of destruction, rioting and looting in the city centre, fuelled by anti-immigrant rhetoric.

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Feeling It In Your Guts! Connection vs Fracture – Episode 260

‘Adolescence’ – Harrowing, Topical, and No Easy Answers – Episode 199

Abdicating Duty of Care and Living in the Age of Comedy Evil! – Episode 194

The Dublin Riots: The Denial of Dignity and the Rage of the Unloved – Episode 132

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