FF-SDLP Merger, Uncharted Waters for Michael D., Papal Visit
This week UCD professor Diarmaid Ferriter joins Hugh and Fiach to look at some of the issues currently on the civic and political agenda through the lens of history. First it’s Fiach’s story that a F...
22 Aug 201840min
Interview: Cody Keenan, Speechwriter for Barack Obama
Cody Keenan has been a speechwriter for President Barack Obama for more than a decade, rising from a campaign intern in Chicago to Director of Speechwriting at the White House. Keenan has helped craft...
17 Aug 201835min
Labour's Leadership, Presidential Potentials
It’s a quiet week on the political front, but that doesn’t mean there’s nothing happening. Brendan Howlin’s Labour leadership has come into question of late, with a number of councillors calling for h...
15 Aug 201836min
Breaking Down a Border Poll
Former Northern Ireland first minister Peter Robinson was criticised for telling the MacGill Summer School last month that he did not think the North would vote to leave the UK in a Border poll but it...
8 Aug 201842min
Amnesty and "Foreign Money" in Politics / Colm O'Gorman on Pope Francis's Visit
First we look at the news that broke yesterday that Amnesty International Ireland has won its challenge to an order made by the Standards in Public Office Commission, or Sipo. Sipo ordered Amnesty to ...
1 Aug 201841min
Fintan O'Toole on "Pre-Fascism" & The Yeats Test
Fintan O'Toole's recent column about the characteristics of the Trump Administration, entitled 'Trial runs for fascism are in full flow' has found a large international audience. He talks to Hugh Line...
27 Jul 201846min
Different Schools of Thought
Last weekend in Rialto a new event took place: The Danielle Carroll Summer School. Named in honour of a woman who took her own life after her and her family become homeless, focussed on social issues ...
25 Jul 201833min
Chaos in Westminster, Slow-Moving Sláintecare
This week: Turmoil at Westminster means Ireland’s plans for a ‘no deal’ Brexit have stepped up a gear. The Tories were supposed to unite behind Theresa May’s Chequers deal and Brexit white paper, but ...
18 Jul 201843min
