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Does Jim Gavin have what it takes for a presidential campaign?
Jack Horgan-Jones and Pat Leahy join Hugh Linehan to look back on the week in politics:
· It seems highly likely that former Dublin football man…
1 year, 1 month ago
Are we still living in De Valera's Ireland?
Éamon De Valera died on August 29th, 1975. Fifty years on, the Ireland of today would hardly be recognisable to the revolutionary leader, taoiseach a…
1 year, 1 month ago
Heather Humphreys is the likely Fine Gael candidate, but Fianna Fáil are yet to show their hand in this presidential race
Harry McGee and Ellen Coyne look back on the week in politics:
· The presidential race is the only show in town with Fine Gael recovering remark…
1 year, 1 month ago
Ukraine: Possibility and peril as Trump pushes for Putin-Zelenskiy meeting
Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelenskiy welcomed Monday’s summit at the White House with US president Donald Trump as a “major step forward” towards …
1 year, 1 month ago
Crash, part three: Ireland hits rock bottom and politics changes forever
Pat Leahy and Hugh Linehan bring the story of Brian Cowen’s ill-fated 2008-2011 government to its conclusion.
Following Cowen’s embarrassing appearanc…
1 year, 1 month ago
McGuinness's shock withdrawal throws the presidential race wide open
The surprise withdrawal from the presidential election race of Fine Gael candidate Mairead McGuinness on health grounds has introduced even more unce…
1 year, 1 month ago
Crash, part two: austerity bites and Cowen’s Morning Ireland humiliation
In part two of a three-part series on Brian Cowen’s ill-fated 2008-2011 government, Pat Leahy and Hugh Linehan continue the story.
After the fateful 2…
1 year, 1 month ago
Crash, part one: Brian Cowen and the unravelling of Ireland
Brian Cowen became Taoiseach in 2008, just as Ireland’s economy was going into free-fall. For the next three years he struggled to lead the country t…
1 year, 1 month ago
Is Dublin one of the most dangerous cities in Europe? No.
Pat Leahy and Harry McGee join Hugh Linehan to look back on the week in politics:
· Fox News and its standard of journalism were highlighted du…
1 year, 1 month ago
What lessons does the Irish Boundary Commission hold for how borders are made – and unmade – in contested spaces?
In today’s episode, Hugh is joined by historian Dr Cormac Moore to discuss one of the most consequential but little-known episodes in modern Irish hi…
1 year, 1 month ago