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New Year, Old Problems
As 2017 drew to a close political staff did the traditional round of Christmas interviews with senior politicians. Familiar themes emerged: the extre…
8 years, 7 months ago
The Year in Politics
Pat Leahy, Fiach Kelly and Michael O'Regan look back at some of the big events of 2017 and speculate about the forces at home and abroad that will sh…
8 years, 7 months ago
Senator Catherine Noone
Senator Catherine Noone, chair of the abortion committee that today published its report, talks to Hugh and Pat about how a majority of the group cam…
8 years, 7 months ago
Brexit: What's Our Strategy Now? Live at the IIEA
The question of the post-Brexit status of the Border may be settled for now, but broader questions remain. What will Ireland's place in Europe be, on…
8 years, 8 months ago
Poll Special: 8th Amendment, Political Parties & Brexit
This week, there were three Irish Times/Ipsos MRBI opinion polls. This morning's asked respondents whether or not they would vote to change the const…
8 years, 8 months ago
Brexit: High-Stakes Game Playing
The Guardian’s Brexit correspondent Lisa O’Carroll joins Irish Times political editor Pat Leahy, deputy political editor Fiach Kelly and presenter Hu…
8 years, 8 months ago
Fintan O'Toole: "An act of defiance of Irish democracy" / Britain's Pesky Irish Problem
Taoiseach Leo Varadkar called the Department of Justice 'dysfunctional' yesterday, but it is worse than that, says Fintan O'Toole: the failure by the…
8 years, 8 months ago
After A Day of Drama, Questions Remain
Pat Leahy and Harry McGee talk to Hugh about the dramatic events of the last week that were capped today with the resignation of Frances Fitzgerald, …
8 years, 8 months ago
No Hand, Act or Part
This week there proved to be at least one more political sting left in the tail of the McCabe controversy. This latest entanglement involves a dubiou…
8 years, 8 months ago
Exit Adams / Live at the Sinn Féin Ard Fheis
Inside Politics returned to the RDS on Saturday for the final stop on our tour of party conferences in what has amounted to a festival season for Iri…
8 years, 8 months ago