POLL: Catherine Connolly opens huge lead in presidential race
Catherine Connolly holds a commanding lead in the presidential election with just over a week to go before votes are cast, according to the latest Irish Times/Ipsos B&A opinion poll.The poll finds tha...
16 Okt 202521min
Election Daily: Is Humphreys playing it too safe?
As independent candidate Catherine Connolly and Fine Gael candidate Heather Humphreys enter the final nine days of the campaign, Jack Horgan Jones and Ellen Coyne join Hugh Linehan to launch our daily...
15 Okt 202524min
Is this the end of the gay rights revolution?
Hugh talks to Ronan McCrea, professor of constitutional and European law at University College London, about his new book, The End of the Gay Rights Revolution. McCrea believes that the achievements o...
13 Okt 202549min
Head-to-head: Presidential election gets confrontational
Ellen Coyne and Harry McGee join Hugh Linehan to look back on the week in politics: · With Jim Gavin gone, the presidential election is now a two-horse race between Catherine Connolly and Heather...
10 Okt 202559min
'Cooking the books': Is Budget 2026 a 'cynical wheeze'?
Yesterday’s budget spelled out the Government’s tax and spending plans for next year. But what happens after that?Barra Roantee of Trinity College Dublin’s Department of Economics says it is “shocking...
8 Okt 202548min
Calamity for Fianna Fáil as Jim Gavin drops out of the presidential race
Ellen Coyne and Jack Horgan-Jones join Hugh to talk about the stunning news of Jim Gavin's withdrawal from the presidential race, leaving Heather Humphreys and Catherine Connolly in a head-to-head bat...
6 Okt 202548min
Jack Chambers channels 'Margaret Thatcher' as 'big squeeze budget' looms
Pat Leahy and Jack Horgan-Jones join Hugh Linehan to talk about the week in politics: We already know next Tuesday’s budget is going to be a much less generous affair than recent years. Jack and Pat s...
3 Okt 202549min
American carnage: Keith Duggan at the Ryder Cup
Fresh from the hostile grass arena of Bethpage, where supporters of the US Ryder Cup team spent the weekend abusing their European opponents, Washington correspondent Keith Duggan returns to the podca...
1 Okt 202539min
