With Greenland in the news, Cork doctor Geraldine Osborne’s recently published account of the year she, her husband and their three small children spent living in the Arctic is timely.

Dining on seal and walrus meat in temperatures as low as –40, travelling by dog sled and sewing clothes from animal skins in the traditional Inuit way is not standard fare for a doctor on a sabbatical, but it makes a fascinating story.

With insights into the Inuit way of life in Canada and Greenland, and the impact of climate change, this is a unique look at a world that has all but vanished with the melting polar ice.

Dr Geraldine Osborne, author of Somewhere Cold, is the guest on today’s episode of the Deirdre O’Shaughnessy Podcast.

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Last month in a Waterford courtroom, the past finally caught up with Catherine O’Brien.

The Buttevant woman, who’s been the subject of Irish Examiner investigations for a number of years, including the podcast series Catherine the Fake, was sentenced to 25 months in prison for fraud.

But this is not the end of this story – as Ann Murphy reports, a judgment against O’Brien ordering her to repay €300,000 to the estate of a woman, now dead, who had loaned her the money on the basis of their friendship is now back in the frame.

Ann Murphy is the guest on the podcast today.

Fraudster Catherine O’Brien failed to repay money to estate of elderly woman she scammed of €250,000

Fraudster Catherine O’Brien sentenced for scamming elderly man out of €22k over fake horse

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The scenes from Minneapolis are by now familiar to anyone with a smartphone or a television. Masked, unidentified agents of ICE, Trump’s immigration force, dragging people from cars, taking children from their parents and shooting civilians Renee Nicole Good and Alex Pretti.

Irish Examiner reporter Sean Murray has just returned from the twin cities and he is speaking to Deirdre on the podcast today.

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