The origins of Fine Gael - with Stephen Collins and Ciara Meehan
Irish Times columnist Stephen Collins and historian Ciara Meehan have written a book about the history of Fine Gael. "Saving the State" recounts the party's story, from the foundation of the state to ...
9 Nov 202040min
Victory in defeat: Trump and Trumpism are here to stay
Fintan O'Toole and Simon Carswell join Hugh to talk over the results - so far - of the US presidential election. Right now Donald Trump seems on course to lose the presidency to Joe Biden. But those w...
5 Nov 202040min
US Election: who's won what and what comes next
Recorded at 5.30 am. Hugh talks to Suzanne Lynch about the night's events in the US presidential election. The Democratic Party's hoped-for landslide has not materialised and their candidate Joe Biden...
4 Nov 202024min
Varadkar takes questions over GP deal leak - reaction
Jack Horgan-Jones and Jennifer Bray join Pat Leahy to talk about the day's events in the Dáil, where Taoisea... Tanaiste Leo Varadkar answered questions about his passing on of a confidential document...
3 Nov 202019min
Shane Ross: "we were almost still in opposition when we were in Cabinet"
"I made no bones about the fact I was going to write a book", says former Independent Alliance TD Shane Ross, whose previous job as a feisty newspaper columnist marked him for suspicion when he joined...
30 Okt 202044min
How the mother and baby archive controversy became a quagmire for government
LIVE US ELECTION SHOW: New York Times columnist Maureen Dowd joins Hugh and our Washington correspondent Suzanne Lynch for a special live online edition of Inside Politics, on Thursday October 29th at...
28 Okt 202054min
A dramatic week in Covid, Brexit and the US election
Jack Horgan-Jones, Suzanne Lynch and Denis Staunton join Pat to talk about an eventful week in Ireland's Covid-19 response, the Brexit process and Donald Trump and Joe Biden's race to the White House....
23 Okt 202044min
The decisions that led us into Level 5
So what is the national Covid-19 policy now? It seems to be: lockdown now, enjoy Christmas, lockdown again. But even that fairly bleak prospect is contingent on a lot of things going according to plan...
21 Okt 202043min
