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 Fiach Kelly and Mary Minihan. After that there is time...
16 Elo 201728min
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 the Celtic Tiger. Hundreds still dot the Irish countr...
12 Elo 201722min
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 complicated game of Brexit. They join podcast regulars ...
9 Elo 201735min
Sophie Long on Varadkar, Brexit and the DUP
Former Progressive Unionist Party member and feminist academic Sophie Long gives her view on Taoiseach Leo Varadkar’s recent comments about Ireland’s post-Brexit border.Ms Long, who resigned as the PU...
2 Elo 201728min
Don't Party Like It's 1999
When Government returns to its work in the autumn, the difficult and politically dangerous work of managing our economic recovery by means of the budget will begin, with much of the task landing on Pa...
26 Heinä 201720min
David Goodhart On Rethinking Political Divides
In his book "The Road to Somewhere: The Populist Revolt and the Future of Politics", journalist David Goodhart attempts to provide a framework for understanding UK society that explains Brexit and the...
21 Heinä 201732min
Water Refunds, GNI in A Bottle, Brexit Pessimism
Fine Gael have found the money to repay water charges to those who complied back in 2014, marking perhaps the final chapter in a terrible humiliation for the party. The €170 million needed for that is...
19 Heinä 201725min
End of Term, Paschal's Loose Change, The Observing Taoiseach
The summer break is looming in Leinster House and TDs are rushing to get things legislation through after an underwhelming term. Minister for Finance Paschal Donohoe is making his 'Summer Statement' o...
12 Heinä 201731min
