Maria Steen: 'If you are in the centre and everybody else moves left, all of a sudden you look right wing'
Campaigner Maria Steen, whose failed bid to launch a run for the presidency last year put the spotlight on the nominations process, talks to Hugh and Ellen Coyne about that campaign. She talks about w...
25 Feb 1h 1min
How climate slid down this Government’s agenda
Under this coalition Government Ireland's climate ambitions are colliding with political reality. Hugh talks to Climate and Science Correspondent Caroline O'Doherty about how the current Government is...
24 Feb 50min
School SNA row teaches Government a valuable lesson
Jack Horgan-Jones and Pat Leahy join Hugh Linehan to look back on the week in politics:· The sharp criticism that greeted a review of allocation of special needs assistants in schools around the...
20 Feb 47min
Fintan O'Toole: What would fascism look like in the 2020s?
13 months in, Donald Trump's second term is proving to be a much more radical political project than his first. On today's podcast Hugh is joined by Fintan O'Toole to talk about whether the Trump admi...
18 Feb 58min
Are politics students getting too narrow an education?
Disputes over freedom of speech, censorship and the shifting norms of acceptable discourse are part and parcel of modern political debate. Now the debate has come to the Leaving Cert. A review of cont...
16 Feb 27min
Have Sinn Féin adopted a populist stance on Ukraine?
Jack Horgan-Jones and Harry McGee join Hugh Linehan to look back on the week in politics:· This week saw the European Parliament approve a € 90 billion package to support Ukraine in its defensiv...
13 Feb 53min
Irish politics shifted left. Why?
How Ireland Voted is a regular publication featuring academic analysis of Irish elections. The latest edition looks at the 2024 general election and features an essay by Gail McElroy and Stefan Müller...
11 Feb 55min
John Mearsheimer: Why Europe still needs the USA
John Mearsheimer returns to the podcast to talk to Hugh about his view of geopolitics and global security in 2026.They talk about Donald Trump's unilateralism, the security architecture of Europe, the...
9 Feb 40min
