Are we still living in De Valera's Ireland?
Éamon De Valera died on August 29th, 1975. Fifty years on, the Ireland of today would hardly be recognisable to the revolutionary leader, taoiseach and president who famously extolled the simple virtu...
27 Aug 202546min
Heather Humphreys is the likely Fine Gael candidate, but Fianna Fáil are yet to show their hand in this presidential race
Harry McGee and Ellen Coyne look back on the week in politics:· The presidential race is the only show in town with Fine Gael recovering remarkably well from the news last week that Mairead McGu...
22 Aug 202536min
Ukraine: Possibility and peril as Trump pushes for Putin-Zelenskiy meeting
Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelenskiy welcomed Monday’s summit at the White House with US president Donald Trump as a “major step forward” towards ending Europe’s deadliest conflict in 80 years and ...
19 Aug 202544min
Crash, part three: Ireland hits rock bottom and politics changes forever
Pat Leahy and Hugh Linehan bring the story of Brian Cowen’s ill-fated 2008-2011 government to its conclusion.Following Cowen’s embarrassing appearance on Morning Ireland in late 2010, many in the coun...
18 Aug 202542min
McGuinness's shock withdrawal throws the presidential race wide open
The surprise withdrawal from the presidential election race of Fine Gael candidate Mairead McGuinness on health grounds has introduced even more uncertainty to an already unpredictable contest. On tod...
15 Aug 202547min
Crash, part two: austerity bites and Cowen’s Morning Ireland humiliation
In part two of a three-part series on Brian Cowen’s ill-fated 2008-2011 government, Pat Leahy and Hugh Linehan continue the story.After the fateful 2008 decision to bail out Ireland’s banks, Cowen and...
13 Aug 202558min
Crash, part one: Brian Cowen and the unravelling of Ireland
Brian Cowen became Taoiseach in 2008, just as Ireland’s economy was going into free-fall. For the next three years he struggled to lead the country through some of its darkest days, with public opinio...
11 Aug 202552min
Is Dublin one of the most dangerous cities in Europe? No.
Pat Leahy and Harry McGee join Hugh Linehan to look back on the week in politics: · Fox News and its standard of journalism were highlighted during an episode of The Will Cain Show this week tha...
8 Aug 202547min
