New Year, Old Problems
As 2017 drew to a close political staff did the traditional round of Christmas interviews with senior politicians. Familiar themes emerged: the extremely thorny issue of housing, the popularity contes...
3 Jan 201833min
The Year in Politics
Pat Leahy, Fiach Kelly and Michael O'Regan look back at some of the big events of 2017 and speculate about the forces at home and abroad that will shape Irish politics in 2018.Would you like to receiv...
27 Dec 201737min
Senator Catherine Noone
Senator Catherine Noone, chair of the abortion committee that today published its report, talks to Hugh and Pat about how a majority of the group came to the view that the 8th Amendment to the constit...
20 Dec 201733min
Brexit: What's Our Strategy Now? Live at the IIEA
The question of the post-Brexit status of the Border may be settled for now, but broader questions remain. What will Ireland's place in Europe be, once the UK, its traditional partner and ally, has de...
13 Dec 201733min
Poll Special: 8th Amendment, Political Parties & Brexit
This week, there were three Irish Times/Ipsos MRBI opinion polls. This morning's asked respondents whether or not they would vote to change the constitution in relation to the Eighth Amendment. Earlie...
9 Dec 201720min
Brexit: High-Stakes Game Playing
The Guardian’s Brexit correspondent Lisa O’Carroll joins Irish Times political editor Pat Leahy, deputy political editor Fiach Kelly and presenter Hugh Linehan to discuss what went wrong in the Brexit...
6 Dec 201735min
Fintan O'Toole: "An act of defiance of Irish democracy" / Britain's Pesky Irish Problem
Taoiseach Leo Varadkar called the Department of Justice 'dysfunctional' yesterday, but it is worse than that, says Fintan O'Toole: the failure by the Department to give the infamous emails at the hear...
29 Nov 201743min
After A Day of Drama, Questions Remain
Pat Leahy and Harry McGee talk to Hugh about the dramatic events of the last week that were capped today with the resignation of Frances Fitzgerald, and the questions that remain. How could such impor...
28 Nov 201730min
