Wikipedia's Jimmy Wales believes the crisis of trust is still fixable
Jimmy Wales founded Wikipedia in January 2001, and almost nobody thought that an encyclopedia that anyone in the world was allowed to edit would actually work. But a quarter of a century later, Wikipe...
17 Kesä 48min
Eruption of violence in Northern Ireland echoes the Troubles
Cormac McQuinn and Harry McGee join Hugh to discuss the week in politics:The disorder in Northern Ireland since a knife attack in Belfast on Monday reached levels not seen since “the worst possible da...
12 Kesä 53min
Is meaningful climate action possible in a democracy?
In a new book coauthored with fellow political scientists, UCD’s Aidan Regan argues that the three goals of democracy, economic growth and effective climate action are at odds with one another, and th...
10 Kesä 37min
Inside Politics Meets GD Politics: A crossover episode with Galen Druke
For a special crossover episode of Inside Politics Hugh Linehan welcomes US podcaster Galen Druke, the host of GD Politics and formerly of the FiveThirtyEight politics podcast, for a discussion of the...
8 Kesä 1h 9min
Rotunda row pits public against private health care
Pat Leahy and Ellen Coyne join Hugh Linehan to look back on the week in politics:· Minister for Health Jennifer Carroll MacNeill has come out this week to demand the Rotunda maternity hospital w...
5 Kesä 54min
Darragh O'Brien on Ireland's missed climate targets, new help to buy EVs and Fianna Fáil's leadership
Pat joins Hugh after interviewing Fianna Fáil's Darragh O'Brien about major issues related to his twin ministries, Transport and Climate, Energy and the Environment. They listen back to the interview ...
3 Kesä 43min
Are Sinn Féin drifting away from an uneasy left-wing alliance?
Ellen Coyne and Cormac McQuinn join Hugh Linehan to look back on the week in politics:· The left-wing alliance that was formed during Catherine Connolly’s presidential campaign is already strain...
29 Touko 53min
Shane Ross: Why politicians won't fix RTÉ - or let it fail
RTÉ has been in the news again lately thanks to renewed controversy over payments to presenters. So it is a timely moment for the release of a new book on the institution. RTÉ: Saints, Scholars, and S...
27 Touko 43min
