May's Crushing Commons Defeat
Green Party leader Eamon Ryan joins Hugh and Pat to consider last night's historic House of Commons defeat for Theresa May's Brexit plan. Has the likelihood of a 'no deal' crash out increased? And, ho...
16 Jan 201939min
Nurses Pay: Why Fine Gael Won't Back Down
As nurses prepare for days of strike action, our politics team consider the problem it poses for Minister Paschal Donohoe and how he is likely to respond. In part two the panel look ahead to the new p...
9 Jan 201939min
Repost: Timothy Snyder, Author of "On Tyranny" (November 2017)
Today, for the benefit of those who recently discovered Inside Politics, we're reposting a podcast with one of our favourite interviewees: American author, historian and academic Timothy Snyder. In ...
4 Jan 201934min
Ask Us Anything #2
The second of two AMA episodes of Inside Politics. Answering your questions about politics and more are Pat Leahy, Fiach Kelly, Jennifer Bray and Harry McGee with host Hugh Linehan.Would you like to r...
2 Jan 201939min
Ask Us Anything #1
We invited you to submit questions for our politics team and we received a lot of responses, so today is the first of two episodes dedicated to answering them. Thanks to everyone who sent in a questio...
26 Dec 201829min
What We Got Wrong About 2018
What did The Irish Times politics team expect to see happening in 2018 that failed to materialise? Which politicians impressed us? What disappointed us? Fiach Kelly, Jennifer Bray and Harry McGee join...
19 Dec 201837min
The Transformative Election of 1918
This day 100 years ago, citizens (including, for the first time, women) across the entire island of Ireland voted together for the final time for a national parliament. To look back at that vote and i...
14 Dec 201842min
May Digs Her Heels In
Today's podcast focusses on Brexit and the Sinn Fein party's fortunes. London Editor Denis Staunton explains why UK Prime Minister Theresa May is unlikely to lose a confidence vote called by her own b...
12 Dec 201844min
