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Radio Ulster,30 Nov 2025,57 mins

Ethical Budgets, RE in Schools, The Pope鈥檚 Astronomer

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As we digest this week鈥檚 budget, we discuss the ethics of what and who governments choose to spend our money on. Audrey talks to journalist Anne McElvoy, Dr Ciara Fitzpatrick from Ulster University and Agnes Lunny the CEO of Positive Futures. The uncertainty around what the Supreme Court decision on Religious Education will mean continues. Audrey talks to Naomi Green and Edwin Graham about their perspectives as Muslim and Bahai parents of children in the NI education system. And we talk to Brother Guy Consalmagno about his ten years as Director of the Vatican Observatory.

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