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Oct 2022
8m 48s

'It's like having Christmas in June!' - ...

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It’s under 50 days until the World Cup in Qatar. With human rights issues still being discussed, and the football calendar being turned on its head for the sake of it, why is the public seemingly accepting it? Author and journalist Dermot Lacey joined Kieran to discuss this further... 
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