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We’re joined by Paul McCutcheon, a professor of Law at the University of Limerick to examine how exactly sentencing works. What factors do judges take into account? What guidance do they rely on? And how is that some judges deliver sentences that look very different to those of their peers?

This week’s episode of The Explainer leaves the Brussels jargon to one side and focuses on what the core institutions are and how they all interact with each other.

Thousands of people in need of critical medical care but unable to access it in Ukraine have been sent to EU countries for treatment in a mammoth operation known as Medevac.

We’re joined by three of our journalists to delve into everything you need about these referendums. What is the public being asked to vote on? Who is in favour of the changes, and who is against? Why is the vote being held at all?

Dr Scott Walkin, a GP in Co Mayo and the Irish College of General Practitioners’ Lead for Infection Control, explains the impact of low uptake of the vaccine, how sick the virus can make you, and what action health authorities need to take now.

We’re joined by our Senior Producer Nicky Ryan, who has just returned from Turkey, and Diego Cupolo, editor-in-chief of the Turkey Recap newsletter, to look at the situation on the ground one year after the devastating earthquakes.

Journalist and author Brian Rowan joins us again to update on a final breakthrough in Northern Ireland.

We’re joined by journalist and author – and current The Journal contributor – Brian Rowan to give his expert perspective on the situation in Northern Ireland.

This week we’re looking at everything about Yemen that might have flown under the radar in recent years with Dr Elisabeth Kendall, the Mistress of Girton College at Cambridge University and an Arabist and middle east specialist.

Marian Ryan, consumer tax manager with Taxback.com, joins us on this week’s episode of The Explainer to demystify the world of income tax returns, statements of liability, and the Revenue website.