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Abortion Referendum, Sinn Féin's Culture, Property Tax
Sinn Fein TD for Dublin Mid-West Eoin Ó Broin joins Hugh, Pat and Sarah to discuss the forthcoming referendum on the 8th Amendment, Fianna Fáil and F…
8 years, 5 months ago
Ruled By Fianna Fáil & Fine Gael Forever? (Live at the Dublin Podcast Festival)
Ten years after an economic and social crisis that it seemed would change the Irish political landscape utterly, the political dominance of Fianna Fá…
8 years, 5 months ago
Budget Skirmishes, Michael D's Move, Dáil Returns
Hugh is joined by Harry McGee and Fiach Kelly to discuss everything and anything on the political agenda this week, including pre-budget skirmishes b…
8 years, 5 months ago
"The Trends Are Good, But It's Not Enough"
This week Hugh, Pat and Harry are joined by Minister of State at the Department of Housing Damien English to talk about the latest news on the housin…
8 years, 5 months ago
Barry Cowen Defends His Housing Proposal & FF's Record / SF's Leadership Dilemma
The negative reaction to Fianna Fáil TD and spokesman on housing Barry Cowen's proposal to incentivise building by reducing VAT rates for builders sh…
8 years, 5 months ago
PSC: Compulsory or Mandatory? Housing Out Of Hand, Strategic Communications
From E-voting to water charges, there have been plenty of examples of governments getting into hot water over a 'sensible' plan emanating from the ci…
8 years, 6 months ago
Housing Crisis: Time for the State to Build
Can we fix a housing market bedevilled by perverse incentives and bottlenecks?How important have lobbying, vested interests and ideology been in dete…
8 years, 6 months ago
Britain's Border Proposal, Preparing for Failure, Craughwell 2018
Britain has just released a negotiating paper with details of how it sees a future UK-EU border on this island operating. Here with hot takes are Fia…
8 years, 6 months ago
Inside Story - Simon Carswell Visits Ireland's Ghost Estates
Ghost estates - residential building developments began during the boom and abandoned when the crash came - became synonymous with the excesses of th…
8 years, 6 months ago
Brexit: Fintan O'Toole & Jeffrey Donaldson on Dublin's Tough Talk
DUP MP Jeffrey Donaldson and Irish Times columnist Fintan O'Toole discuss how well Taoiseach Leo Varadkar is playing Dublin's hand in the rather comp…
8 years, 6 months ago