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Stark economic predictions for the year ahead - with Michael Taft
This week the Government published the worst economic projections since the financial crisis of 2008-11. Finance minister, Paschal Donohue, issued a bleak warning that Ireland is now in “severe reces…
Published on 5 years, 8 months ago
Can Fianna Fáil and Fine Gael lure a third party?
This week, Fianna Fáil and Fine Gael's historic agreement to form a government together didn't make much of a splash among the distracted public. There are difficult decisions ahead, but no sign of t…
Published on 5 years, 8 months ago
US Politics special with Clare Malone of FiveThirtyEight
Today Hugh talks to American journalist Clare Malone about the upending of US politics in an election year by the outbreak of Covid-19. Clare is senior political writer with FiveThirtyEight, a data-d…
Published on 5 years, 8 months ago
Europe's dissonant coronavirus response - with Naomi O'Leary
Europe correspondent Naomi O'Leary joins Hugh and Pat to talk about the EU response to the coronavirus crisis and how differing national memories of anther crisis, the financial crash of a decade ago…
Published on 5 years, 8 months ago
How are we handling this lengthy lockdown? With Jennifer O'Connell and Patrick Freyne
As we approach a sunny bank holiday weekend, and with several weeks of social distancing already under our belts, Hugh talks to Jennifer O'Connell and Patrick Freyne about how we are collectively han…
Published on 5 years, 8 months ago
Politics in the age of isolation
Politics is still going on, so Jennifer Bray and Harry McGee talk to Hugh about the latest goings-on: government formation, Seanad elections and the Labour leadership. But first they reflect on the n…
Published on 5 years, 8 months ago
The government's response steps up a gear - with Fiach Kelly
Fiach joins to Hugh to talk about the caretaker government's response to the Covid-19 outbreak, and how the intervention of a civil servant has brought focus back onto the creation of a new governmen…
Published on 5 years, 8 months ago
What will the long-term consequences of Covid-19 be? With Fintan O'Toole
What will come in the wake of Covid-19? The end of the office and the transformation of cities? A new age of hedonism? A long-term increase of the role of the state in the economy? To talk about that…
Published on 5 years, 9 months ago
A new government must be formed - but how?
What a week it has been since our last podcast. Hugh and Pat talk about Leo Varadkar's national address, what the Coronavirus outbreak means for politics now and in the future, and the dilemma facing…
Published on 5 years, 9 months ago
Coronavirus transforms the political reality
Jennifer and Pat join Hugh to talk about the Coronavirus outbreak. How ready is Ireland? They also discuss the accelerated government formation now taking place. As the situation worsens, all parties…
Published on 5 years, 9 months ago