Ask Us Anything #2
The second of two AMA episodes of Inside Politics. Answering your questions about politics and more are Pat Leahy, Fiach Kelly, Jennifer Bray and Harry McGee with host Hugh Linehan.Would you like to r...
2 Jan 201939min
Ask Us Anything #1
We invited you to submit questions for our politics team and we received a lot of responses, so today is the first of two episodes dedicated to answering them. Thanks to everyone who sent in a questio...
26 Des 201829min
What We Got Wrong About 2018
What did The Irish Times politics team expect to see happening in 2018 that failed to materialise? Which politicians impressed us? What disappointed us? Fiach Kelly, Jennifer Bray and Harry McGee join...
19 Des 201837min
The Transformative Election of 1918
This day 100 years ago, citizens (including, for the first time, women) across the entire island of Ireland voted together for the final time for a national parliament. To look back at that vote and i...
14 Des 201842min
May Digs Her Heels In
Today's podcast focusses on Brexit and the Sinn Fein party's fortunes. London Editor Denis Staunton explains why UK Prime Minister Theresa May is unlikely to lose a confidence vote called by her own b...
12 Des 201844min
Historic Times in Westminster, Peadar's Party, Paschal's Reprimand
With Hugh to appraise all this week's political news (including high drama in Westminster, the personalised abortion legislation debate, Peadar Tóibín's new political movement and the Fiscal Advisory ...
5 Des 201840min
Bill Browder on Putin's Kleptocracy & A "Cold War Against Crime"
"Putin and his regime are going to become more hostile, malicious and deadly to the rest fo the world, and we need to understand this".Since the murder in Russia of his lawyer Sergei Magnitsky, Bill B...
30 Nov 201837min
What Really Caused Brexit? With Fintan O'Toole & Professor Helen Thompson
As we wait for UK parliament to vote on Theresa May's deal, Hugh talks to two people with thought-provoking and divergent ideas about what brought about Brexit in the first place: Irish Times columnis...
28 Nov 201850min
