Refugees in Ireland: is the Government getting the balance right?
The unprecedented increase in the numbers of people coming to Ireland seeking International Protection due to war or oppression in their homeland put serious pressure on State resources since 2023. Th...
21 Maj 202544min
'The people who voted no are expected to go under a rock and disappear' - Ronán Mullen on losing the marriage referendum
The tenth anniversary of the marriage equality referendum has prompted some reminiscing about how the vote was the first of two pinnacles for progressivism in Ireland, the other being the abortion re...
19 Maj 202535min
The Public Accounts Committee returns, and is already making headlines
Jack Horgan-Jones and Cormac McQuinn join Hugh Linehan to look back on the week in politics: · The Public Accounts Committee returned on Thursday and already it was making headlines with revelat...
16 Maj 202538min
Marriage equality: ten years on, has Ireland's progressive optimism disappeared?
It is ten years since the country voted to legalise same-sex marriage. This victory for progressive politics was followed by another when abortion rights were won in 2018. But what is sometimes called...
14 Maj 202544min
Simon Harris: my style of politics is not a problem
Simon Harris had a difficult general election campaign as Fine Gael leader and has since faced criticism that he has not learned from mistakes in his new roles as Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Aff...
12 Maj 202558min
Are the Government spooked by the consequences of the Occupied Territories Bill?
Pat Leahy and Harry McGee join Hugh Linehan to look back on the week in politics:· On the same day that the US agreed a trade deal with the UK, the European Commission unveiled a second, larger ...
9 Maj 202538min
Conclave: why this papal election is the hardest to call in decades
The death of Pope Francis has set in train one of the most unique contests in world politics: the Papal conclave. Cardinals will vote again and again until one name achieves a two-thirds majority and ...
7 Maj 202537min
What does the surge of Farage's Reform mean for UK politics?
On today’s Inside Politics podcast Irish Times London Correspondent Mark Paul joins Hugh Linehan to discuss what Reform UK leader Nigel Farage is already calling “the beginning of the end of the Conse...
3 Maj 202521min
