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Being an American right now is a wild ride. Every day brings a new controversy, breathless media narratives, and the same loud voices rushing in to score political points. Then another Truth Social post drops and the circus moves on. But all that noise is drowning out the actual story. On her new podcast Runaway Country, veteran journalist Alex Wagner talks to the voices at the center of the headlines: from the fringes of the resistance, to the marrow of MAGA, to the many people who’ve found ...
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This week on Stormont Sources, David McCann, Tim Cairns and Michael McKernan dive deep into two major Stormont flashpoints.
💷 First, the Stormont monitoring round — Ministers scrambling for cash to plug pay gaps.
- Mike Nesbitt’s £100 million boost for health — and why it’s only half enough.
- DUP, Sinn Féin and the smaller parties: who wins and who loses in these back-room budget battles?
- Are Northern Ireland’s smaller parties powerless inside the Executive?
🗳️ Then, sparks fly on X/Twitter:
Deputy First Minister Emma Little-Pengelly and Opposition Leader Matthew O’Toole clash over the idea of extending Irish presidential voting rights to Northern Ireland.
Is this a breach of the Good Friday Agreement or just a culture-war distraction?
🎙️ Stormont Sources takes you behind the scenes of Northern Ireland politics — with insight from former party insiders.
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