FG Taking Hits as Housing Crisis Intensifies, Budget Business, Pugilistic Peter Casey
Hugh is joined by Fiach Kelly and Harry McGee for a bonus Friday episode of Inside Politics. On the agenda: - It was another terrible week for Housing Minister Eoghan Murphy, with a well-attended prot...
5 Okt 201819min
Blood-Red Lines, Brexit Crunch Time, Money in Presidential Politics
The DUP's line on Brexit is "blood red", according to Arlene Foster. Her apocalyptic choice of words might reflect a deep-seated unionist fear of betrayal by London, says Pat Leahy. Meanwhile over at ...
3 Okt 201834min
Senator Lynn Ruane on 'People Like Me', Housing Wars & 'Reverse Snobbery'
Today's guest is Senator Lynn Ruane, the author of an excellent new memoir, who insists there is no such thing as 'reverse snobbery'. Or at least it's not something that a well-heeled person like (say...
26 Sep 201844min
Housing Activists 'Take Back the City'
A group of housing activists have been occupying vacant properties in Dublin city centre since early August as part of a protest over the amount of vacant housing in the city. Last week the Take Back ...
19 Sep 201836min
Cash for Ash, CervicalCheck, And Then There Were... Five?
Harry McGee is back on the politics beat and back in the Inside Politics studio to tell us about the political problems created by the CervicalCheck report, beginning with a leak of details from the r...
12 Sep 201837min
FF and FG Stand-Off, Leo Defends Eoghan, Blimp Incoming
DCU's Jane Suiter joins Hugh and Pat to talk about the exchange of letters between and Taoiseach and Fianna Fáil leader Micheál Martin on the topic of renewing their little arrangement. Martin rebuffe...
5 Sep 201843min
Paschal Donohoe on Social Change, Conservatism & 'The Radical Centre'
Last week, Minister for Finance Paschal Donohoe gave a talk at the Collins Institute, a Fine Gael-associated think tank in Dublin. The talk was about the political centre, how it is weakening in other...
3 Sep 201839min
"Unless we set priorities, nothing is a priority" - The State & Social Housing
Ireland's housing crisis is complex and multifaceted, but one key element that the government must address in seeking a solution to it is the social housing sector. Two-thirds of all social housing in...
29 Aug 201852min
