ABOUT THIS PODCAST 🔗
The Explainer is a weekly podcast from The Journal that takes a deeper look at one big news story you need to know about. What's the background? Why is this in the news? Get the facts behind the story from Ireland's biggest news website.
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Hosts:
Update frequency:
every 5 days
Average audio length:
28 minutes
Guest interviews
Has sponsors
English
United States
439 episodes
since March 10, 2019
episodic
AUDIENCE OF THIS PODCAST 🔗
~55.02% of listeners are from United States.
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US
55.02%
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SG
16.74%
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IE
11.96%
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GB
6.22%
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ES
2.39%
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FI
0.95%
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KR
0.95%
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CA
0.95%
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IN
0.95%
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SE
0.95%
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GR
0.47%
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AU
0.47%
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IT
0.47%
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DE
0.47%
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JP
0.47%
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AT
0.47%
Others
0.10%
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LATEST EPISODE 🔗
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The Journal is releasing a six-part series of The Explainer through Irish, focusing on some of the biggest stories affecting the language and the Gaeltacht areas. This week, commentator Cárthach Bán Breathnach joins us to explore the deep relationship between sport and the Irish language, and how I…
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This summer, The Journal is releasing a six-part series of The Explainer podcast through Irish, focusing on some of the biggest stories affecting the language and the Gaeltacht areas. This week, we look at the state of Irish language education in Ireland, including calls to reform the school curric…
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