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Brexit Reality Bites / No Child 2020 with Tanya Ward & Fintan O'Toole
First: Pat Leahy on the comments yesterday by an EU Commission spokesperson suggesting that a hard border will appear in the case of a no deal Brexit…
7 years, 1 month ago
Peadar Tóibín on Building A New Party With 'No Taboo Subjects'
Public meetings to introduce pro-life TD Peadar Tóibín's new, as-yet unnamed political party have been drawing decent crowds around the country in re…
7 years, 1 month ago
May's Crushing Commons Defeat
Green Party leader Eamon Ryan joins Hugh and Pat to consider last night's historic House of Commons defeat for Theresa May's Brexit plan. Has the lik…
7 years, 1 month ago
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 res…
7 years, 1 month 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…
7 years, 1 month 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 Har…
7 years, 1 month 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 answe…
7 years, 2 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 …
7 years, 2 months 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 n…
7 years, 2 months 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 unl…
7 years, 2 months ago