I really like RTÉ's Morning Ireland and find its summary of "it says in the papers" to be extremely useful for following what's happening in the news but their podcast feed dumps dozens of stories each day, so this is a python script that will extract the bits we care about and dump them as a custom RSS feed that you can subscribe to in your podcatcher.

(On an internet-accessible server).

Install requirements:

pip install -r requirements.txt

Clone the repo and configure:

cd /var/www/sites/yoursite.com
git clone https://github.com/johnke/morningireland.git

cd /var/www/sites/yoursite.com/mornigngireland
LOCAL_URL="http://yoursite.com" python morningireland.py > feed.xml

Alternatively, set up a cronjob to automatically update the feed.

30 * * * * LOCAL_URL="http://yoursite.com" python /var/www/sites/yoursite.com/mornigngireland/morningireland.py > /var/www/sites/yoursite.com/mornigngireland/feed.xml

Add the podcast to your podcatcher by subscribing to http://yoursite.com/morningireland/feed.xml.

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