Pressure builds on Labour as austerity bites: Collapse, part two
Inside Politics is coming to Galway in May for a live recording. Get your tickets here.In part two of this three-part series on Labour's harrowing experience in government from 2011 to 2016, Pat Leahy...
6 Huhti 43min
Collapse: How Labour went from boom to bust
Inside Politics is coming to Galway in May for a live recording. Get your tickets here.When Labour came to power in 2011 Ireland was in the depths of an economic crisis that had several more years to ...
3 Huhti 44min
Is Ireland taking anti-Semitism seriously enough?
Oliver Sears, founder of Holocaust Awareness Ireland, joins Hugh to talk about his growing alarm at the rise of anti-Semitism in Ireland and what he sees as the failure to take it seriously. They disc...
1 Huhti 1h 3min
Government can't help helping as fuel costs soar; and how many TDs are too many?
This week the Government decided to unveil a €250 million package to help citizens meet the elevated cost of fuel. And this could be just the start of a series of new efforts to keep down the cost of ...
27 Maalis 46min
Was Seán Lemass really Ireland's greatest taoiseach?
Seán Lemass is remembered as the man who changed Ireland.Several opinion polls have noted Lemass as the country's most admired taoiseach.He never left any papers of autobiography, but rather twenty-tw...
25 Maalis 47min
'In the pocket of US multinationals': How is Ireland seen by Europe?
Eoin Drea is a senior researcher at the Wilfried Martens Centre, the official think tank of the European People’s Party (of which Fine Gael is a member), and an occasional contributor to the opinion p...
23 Maalis 41min
In the shadow of the war in Iran, inflation and energy costs look set to climb ever higher
Ellen Coyne and Jack Horgan-Jones join Hugh Linehan to look back on the week in politics:· Israeli strikes on Iranian natural gas infrastructure marked an escalation in the US-Israeli war on Ira...
20 Maalis 44min
The Taoiseach in the court of the mad king
Taoiseach Michel Martin has been meeting US president Donald Trump as part of the annual St Patrick’s Day pageantry. Martin once again faced the challenge of outlining Ireland’s positions on issues fr...
18 Maalis 30min
