How the mother and baby archive controversy became a quagmire for government
LIVE US ELECTION SHOW: New York Times columnist Maureen Dowd joins Hugh and our Washington correspondent Suzanne Lynch for a special live online edition of Inside Politics, on Thursday October 29th at...
28 Loka 202054min
A dramatic week in Covid, Brexit and the US election
Jack Horgan-Jones, Suzanne Lynch and Denis Staunton join Pat to talk about an eventful week in Ireland's Covid-19 response, the Brexit process and Donald Trump and Joe Biden's race to the White House....
23 Loka 202044min
The decisions that led us into Level 5
So what is the national Covid-19 policy now? It seems to be: lockdown now, enjoy Christmas, lockdown again. But even that fairly bleak prospect is contingent on a lot of things going according to plan...
21 Loka 202043min
Budget 2021: government go big and "economic jihadis" go home - with David McWilliams
Hugh talks to economist and Irish Times columnist David McWilliams about the massive increase in spending announced in yesterday's budget and why this approach, the correct one as David sees it, won o...
14 Loka 202047min
Can America's awful politics be fixed? - with Steven Levitsky
Once both sides in a two-party system start playing hardball - as we see in the battle over the US Supreme Court, for example - it's very difficult for either to stop, with potentially dangerous conse...
12 Loka 202023min
Poll: support for Government and coalition party leaders falls
A short episode with analysis of the latest Irish Times / IpsosMRBI poll, which shows that public approval of the coalition Government and its party leaders has fallen, but support has remained relati...
8 Loka 202011min
A look ahead to Budget 2021
In today’s roundup, the team look ahead to next week’s budget. What has Paschal planned for the next twelve months? How can we live with Covid and keep the economy going? Which sectors will be priorit...
7 Loka 202043min
Two days of Covid controversy that unnerved the country
It's been a significant few days in Ireland's Covid-19 response, with controversy erupting on Sunday over Nphet's recommendation that the country move to Level5 restrictions, much to the Government's ...
6 Loka 202029min
