Podcast Episodes

A closer look at attitudes to reunification

North and South, how open are citizens to constitutional changes in order to make a United Ireland work? How much economic pain would they be willing to bear? What level of short-term pain would be f…

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Mary Lou McDonald on house prices, migration policy, defamation cases and more

Sinn Féin party leader and Dublin Central TD Mary Lou McDonald sat down with Pat Leahy to talk about a range of policy areas, from housing to migration and reunification. They also discussed the prac…

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Summit surprises, wrapping the year

Jennifer Bray and Pat Leahy join Hugh Linehan for the final weekly politics wrap of 2023.

Jennifer Bray is dialling in from Brussels, where the EU Council summit has been taking place, with national l…

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Cop 28, the geopolitics of Net Zero and the future of energy - with Helen Thompson

An agreement has been reached at Cop 28 that includes a commitment to phasing out the use of fossil fuels, with some hailing it as an historic moment in the struggle to mitigate climate change.

But a…

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Sinn Féin lose confidence in their own motion

On today’s Inside Politics podcast, Cormac McQuinn and Pat Leahy join Hugh Linehan to look back on the week in politics:

There’s been a lukewarm reception to Cabinet-approved plans for referendums to …

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The Origins and the problems of 'The Great Awokening'

In his new book, The Identity Trap: A Story of Ideas and Power in Our Time, political scientist Yascha Mounk has written the most comprehensive and detailed account yet of how a new form of progressi…

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2023's political highs, lows, winners, losers and funny bits

Hugh Linehan and podcast regulars Pat Leahy, Jack Horgan-Jones and Jennifer Bray got together on Wednesday to look back on all the major (and some not-so-major) developments in Irish politics in 2023…

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Talking about talking about immigration

Is it time for the political system to grapple more explicitly with how immigration is changing Ireland and what sort of model - integration? multiculturalism? - we as a state wish to pursue? 

Or is …

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Riot response a major challenge for McEntee

This week the Friday wrap panellists are joined by Irish Times crime and security correspondent Conor Gallagher to talk about how Garda Commissioner Drew Harris, Minister for Justice Helen McEntee an…

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Will economic trouble mean an early election?

"With economic signals flashing amber, the next Irish general election might be sooner than we thought", argues Cliff Taylor in an analysis piece for The Irish Times. But does Cliff's economic reason…

Published on 2 years, 1 month ago