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‘Irish people love elections!’
Still less than a year in existence, the Electoral Commission is set for a packed 2024 with local and European elections in June, a referendum in Mar…
2 years, 1 month ago
Ask us anything, 2023 edition - part two
It's part two of the traditional Inside Politics end-of-year Ask Us Anything podcast. Hugh Linehan, Pat Leahy, Jennifer Bray, Harry McGee and Cormac …
2 years, 2 months ago
Ask us anything, 2023 edition - part one
It's part one of the traditional Inside Politics end-of-year Ask Us Anything podcast. Hugh Linehan, Pat Leahy, Jennifer Bray, Harry McGee and Cormac …
2 years, 2 months ago
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…
2 years, 2 months ago
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 migrati…
2 years, 2 months ago
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 Cou…
2 years, 2 months ago
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…
2 years, 2 months ago
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 recep…
2 years, 2 months ago
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 d…
2 years, 2 months ago
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 no…
2 years, 3 months ago