Will the DUP finally return to Stormont?
Will they or won't they? DUP leader Jeffrey Donaldson must soon decide whether to lead his party back into power-sharing or to let devolution die and direct rule return. The decision he makes will be ...
8 Nov 202347min
Don Tidey case: 'They've been getting away with murder for 40 years'
The Dail is in recess, and that means no Friday wrap today. Instead, we’re going to bring you a conversation that was originally published on the feed of our sister podcast In the News, hosted by Bern...
3 Nov 202328min
Fintan O'Toole on Israel, Gaza and the equality of human life
The response to the Hamas terror attack on October 7th has been fierce. In the weeks since then, Israel has unleashed a war against Hamas but in which thousands of civilians in Gaza have lost their li...
1 Nov 202341min
Israel-Hamas conflict takes all the attention at the EU leaders’ summit
Hugh Linehan is joined in studio by Jennifer Bray, while Pat Leahy is on the line from Brussels where he is covering the EU leaders’ summit. As Pat explains in part one of today’s Inside Politics podc...
27 Okt 202346min
Rory Stewart on Keir Starmer, Liz Truss and the 'unseriousness' of UK politics
Former MP, Tory leadership candidate, author and now host of the UK's biggest politics podcast The Rest is Politics, Rory Stewart is today's guest on Inside Politics. His gripping memoir Politics on t...
25 Okt 202346min
Taking sides on Israel and Palestine, health money pit, flooding hits Cork
Pat Leahy and Jack Horgan-Jones join Hugh Linehan to look at the week in Irish politics: Foreign policy came to Dáil Éireann as Government and opposition tried and failed to agree a motion on the cris...
20 Okt 202342min
Northern Ireland's 'Dirty Linen' and the long tail of trauma
From Banbridge, County Down, Irish Times Books Editor Martin Doyle grew up in the heart of the 'Linen Triangle', home of Northern Ireland's biggest industry, and also within the 'Murder Triangle', a r...
18 Okt 202350min
Michael Lewis on the rise and fall of Sam Bankman-Fried
Having already amassed a $26 billion fortune at 28, cryptocurrency entrepreneur Sam Bankman-Fried was the world's richest person under 30. He was also the most prominent advocate of the 'effective alt...
16 Okt 202349min
