Radio reviews
Broadcaster Kieran Cuddihy photographed for ‘People & Culture’ in 2025. Photo: Steve Humphreys
The front page story in the Sunday Independent last week, about €14k tax breaks on “modular homes” in gardens, kicked off another round of intense radio hostilities on the housing issue.
Indeed on the Brendan O’Connor Sunday newspaper panel (11am), the great Professor Scott Lucas of UCD pointed out that virtually every time he had been on the show, this issue had been raised. Journalist Alison O’Connor struck a note that would be heard many times throughout the week, when she spoke of “the potential for huge disharmony”.