Deconstructing Budget 2024 - with Pearse Doherty
Budget 2024 was a missed opportunity to invest more in housing and tackle chronic problems in our health system, says Sinn Féin spokesperson for finance Pearse Doherty. Pearse joins Pat Leahy, Jennife...
11 Okt 202343min
Howlin retires, Budget run-in, Starmer pours water on reunification
Cormac McQuinn and Pat Leahy join Hugh Linehan to look at the week in politics:If past years are anything to go by, most of the Budget 2024 measures will have been leaked by next Tuesday. The fact the...
6 Okt 202337min
Will 'common sense' policies revive Rishi Sunak's Tories?
On today's podcast:Jack Horgan-Jones on the darkening economic backdrop to next week's delivery of Budget 2024.Mark Paul reports from the Conservative Party Conference in Manchester where Prime Minist...
4 Okt 202328min
Naomi Klein on conspiracies, climate and the 'personal brand'
Today’s guest is Canadian academic and author Naomi Klein. Klein shot to fame with her first book, No Logo, which offered an acute critique of how powerful corporations in the 1990s had profited off e...
2 Okt 202344min
Sinn Féin gain, no giveaway budget, Leo on Benefits Street
Harry McGee and Pat Leahy join Hugh Linehan to discuss the week in politics:The latest Irish Times / Ipsos opinion poll shows Sinn Féin continuing to gain. Other poll results foreshadow the potential ...
29 Sep 202333min
Why can't more of us vote in Seanad elections?
A constitutional stopwatch is now ticking for the way in which some senators are elected. And it’s finally time for the Seanad reform which successive governments have promised but failed to deliver. ...
27 Sep 202335min
Disturbance at Dáil Éireann
Our Friday wrap of the week returns with the start of the new political season. Jennifer Bray, Jack Horgan-Jones and Pat Leahy join Hugh to discuss the week in politics: What should we call the ugly s...
22 Sep 202349min
Can Britain ever come to terms with Brexit?
Peter Foster tells today’s Irish Times Inside Politics podcast that, while polls show a majority of British voters now think it was a mistake to leave the European Union, it is unlikely any UK governm...
20 Sep 202346min
