Podcast Episodes

Nurses Pay: Why Fine Gael Won't Back Down

As nurses prepare for days of strike action, our politics team consider the problem it poses for Minister Paschal Donohoe and how he is likely to respond. In part two the panel look ahead to the new …

Published on 6 years, 11 months ago

Repost: Timothy Snyder, Author of "On Tyranny" (November 2017)

Today, for the benefit of those who recently discovered Inside Politics, we're reposting a podcast with one of our favourite interviewees: American author, historian and academic Timothy Snyder. In…

Published on 6 years, 11 months ago

Ask Us Anything #2

The second of two AMA episodes of Inside Politics. Answering your questions about politics and more are Pat Leahy, Fiach Kelly, Jennifer Bray and Harry McGee with host Hugh Linehan.

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Published on 6 years, 11 months ago

Ask Us Anything #1

We invited you to submit questions for our politics team and we received a lot of responses, so today is the first of two episodes dedicated to answering them. Thanks to everyone who sent in a questi…

Published on 6 years, 11 months ago

What We Got Wrong About 2018

What did The Irish Times politics team expect to see happening in 2018 that failed to materialise? Which politicians impressed us? What disappointed us? Fiach Kelly, Jennifer Bray and Harry McGee joi…

Published on 7 years ago

The Transformative Election of 1918

This day 100 years ago, citizens (including, for the first time, women) across the entire island of Ireland voted together for the final time for a national parliament. To look back at that vote and …

Published on 7 years ago

May Digs Her Heels In

Today's podcast focusses on Brexit and the Sinn Fein party's fortunes. London Editor Denis Staunton explains why UK Prime Minister Theresa May is unlikely to lose a confidence vote called by her own …

Published on 7 years ago

Historic Times in Westminster, Peadar's Party, Paschal's Reprimand

With Hugh to appraise all this week's political news (including high drama in Westminster, the personalised abortion legislation debate, Peadar Tóibín's new political movement and the Fiscal Advisory…

Published on 7 years ago

Bill Browder on Putin's Kleptocracy & A "Cold War Against Crime"

"Putin and his regime are going to become more hostile, malicious and deadly to the rest fo the world, and we need to understand this".Since the murder in Russia of his lawyer Sergei Magnitsky, Bill …

Published on 7 years ago

What Really Caused Brexit? With Fintan O'Toole & Professor Helen Thompson

As we wait for UK parliament to vote on Theresa May's deal, Hugh talks to two people with thought-provoking and divergent ideas about what brought about Brexit in the first place: Irish Times columni…

Published on 7 years ago