Is The UK Ready for What Brexit Brings? - With Ruadhán Mac Cormaic and Helen Thompson

Is The UK Ready for What Brexit Brings? - With Ruadhán Mac Cormaic and Helen Thompson

Leaving the European Union will have consequences for politics in the United Kingdom. What are they, and is the UK ready for them? To chat about that and other Brexit-related themse, Hugh is joined again by Helen Thompson, professor of political economy at Cambridge University, and by Ruadhán Mac Cormaic, assistant editor with The Irish Times.

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#GE19 Tactics, What Different Results Mean for Brexit - with Patrick Maguire and Paddy Smyth

#GE19 Tactics, What Different Results Mean for Brexit - with Patrick Maguire and Paddy Smyth

The UK general election campaign is, among other things, a battle for what kind of Brexit will ultimately happen. Our Europe editor Patrick Smyth sets out five possible election outcomes and the sort ...

1 Nov 201928min

Direct Provision Tensions: "The Lack of Consultation Isn't Working"

Direct Provision Tensions: "The Lack of Consultation Isn't Working"

Sinn Féin TD Martin Kenny's car was torched a few days after he spoke out against rising anti-immigrant sentiment in the Dáil. Kenny, who has supported the provision of accommodation for asylum seeker...

30 Okt 201939min

Tangled Up in Brexit, Proxy War of The Buttons

Tangled Up in Brexit, Proxy War of The Buttons

Hugh is joined by Denis Staunton, Pat Leahy, Harry McGee and Jennifer Bray. What will UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson try to do first: win a general election, or pass his Withdrawal Agreement Bill thr...

23 Okt 201939min

Votes for A Deal, Ireland's Bittersweet Brexit Success - with Fintan O'Toole and Denis Staunton

Votes for A Deal, Ireland's Bittersweet Brexit Success - with Fintan O'Toole and Denis Staunton

London Editor Denis Staunton on where Boris Johnson might find - or lose - support in tomorrow's House of Commons vote on the Brexit deal. Fintan O'Toole on how the strategies of the different parties...

18 Okt 201934min

Brexit: Can This Deal Pass?

Brexit: Can This Deal Pass?

Pat Leahy and Denis Staunton are on the line to discuss the Brexit deal agreed today and the reaction here, in Northern Ireland and in Westminster. Can Johnson's deal pass? And what are the implicatio...

17 Okt 201917min

Brexit: Issues Remain as Deadline Looms – with Peter Foster

Brexit: Issues Remain as Deadline Looms – with Peter Foster

At this moment in time there is still optimism that a deal may be struck in Brexit talks between the EU and the UK ahead of tomorrow’s European Council meeting, though the outstanding issues may see i...

16 Okt 201932min

Poll: Varadkar’s Approval Up, Little Between Fine Gael & Fianna Fáil

Poll: Varadkar’s Approval Up, Little Between Fine Gael & Fianna Fáil

Political Editor Pat Leahy is here with the latest Irish Times/Ipsos MRBI poll which shows Fine Gael and Fianna Fáil are in pretty much a dead heat, while the Green Party is enjoying a steady upward ...

14 Okt 201923min

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