POLL: Who Leads in the Race for Europe?
Today's Irish Times / Ipsos MRBI poll is actually three polls, with one conducted in each of our three European parliament constituencies: Dublin, Midlands-North-West and South. It gives us the first ...
10 Touko 201924min
Plebiscites and Populism and Broadband, Oh My
It's the topic none of you has been asking us to cover: the forthcoming plebiscites in Limerick, Cork and Waterford to see if those cities should have a directly-elected mayor. On the ground, journali...
8 Touko 201944min
Nationalism & The Irish-American Identity - with Michael Brendan Dougherty
Our guest today is Irish-American writer Michael Brendan Dougherty, who is a journalist with the New York-based conservative magazine National Review. His new book 'My Father Left Me Ireland' examines...
3 Touko 201936min
The New IRA and Politics in the North
Nearly a fortnight on from the murder of journalist Lyra McKee in Derry, local elections take place in Northern Ireland tomorrow. Will those who come out to vote decide to make an appeal for compromis...
1 Touko 201937min
Bret Easton Ellis on US Politics Invading His Apolitical Life
Bret Easton Ellis, best known as a fiction writer of novels including American Psycho and Less Than Zero, has just published his first non-fiction book, White. The collection of eight essays respondin...
25 Huhti 201938min
Anti-EU Parties in the European Parliament - with Dr Kevin Cunningham
Political scientist and polling expert Dr Kevin Cunningham joins Hugh, Pat and Fiach to discuss a report he co-authored for the think tank, the European Council on Foreign Relations, on the shape of t...
24 Huhti 201946min
"This Is Not A Retirement" - Clare Daly on Running for Europe
Independents 4 Change TD Clare Daly joins Hugh and Fiach to discuss her decision to run for a seat in the European parliament. Why has the TD some see as one of our most accomplished parliamentarians...
17 Huhti 201946min
Brexit Day Blues II - with Fintan O'Toole & Denis Staunton
The new October Brexit deadline impacts British politics in myriad ways, obvious and subtle. But it also has implications for politics here in Ireland and across Europe. First Denis Staunton and then ...
12 Huhti 201943min
