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 Mar 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 Mar 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 Mar 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 Mar 30min
Taoiseach awaits his next dentist’s appointment at The White House
Ellen Coyne and Harry McGee join Hugh Linehan to look back on the week in politics:· Taoiseach Micheál Martin’s St Patrick’s Day visit to The White House to meet US president Donald Trump could ...
13 Mar 1h
How the Iran war is impacting the world's economies
As war in the Middle East rages on, the world's superpowers are making diplomatic representations to end it, and contingencies to protect their economies from the knock-on effects, namely oil and natu...
11 Mar 36min
The modern face of Irish America
The Irish-American experience fitted seamlessly into the story of the United States as a “nation of immigrants”. In the Trump era that narrative has fallen out of favour. Family ties are weakening ove...
9 Mar 36min
How could Donald Trump have thought war with Iran was a good idea?
Naomi O’Leary and Cormac McQuinn join Hugh Linehan to look back on the week in politics:· After six days of US-Israeli attacks on Iran, the conflict is escalating and has spread to Lebanon which...
6 Mar 54min
