How to spend it, TDs’ boundary obsession, robust discussions
Cormac McQuinn and Pat Leahy join Hugh Linehan to discuss the week in politics:How should the Government use this year's forecast €10 billion budget surplus?TDs are obsessed with what the new Electora...
21 Apr 202338min
Does the Dowdall connection harm Sinn Féin?
On today’s Inside Politics podcast Hugh Linehan is joined by Harry McGee and Jack Horgan-Jones from our political team to discuss this week’s stories, including:Focus on Sinn Féin’s link to discredite...
19 Apr 202349min
Has Biden found the right balance on his Ireland visit?
Irish Times Washington Correspondents past and present, Simon Carswell and Martin Wall, have both been covering US president Joe Biden's visit to Ireland this week.They join Pat Leahy to talk about wh...
14 Apr 202332min
The politics of Biden's visit
Gerard Howlin and Freya McClements join Pat Leahy to talk about all the politics surrounding US President Joe Biden's visit to Ireland. The four-day tour gets going in earnest today with an address at...
12 Apr 202333min
Why is politics failing to solve problems like housing? With Ben Ansell
The whole world is a series of collective action problems, says Professor Ben Ansell. We want action taken to solve problems, but we want most of the benefits of those actions for ourselves while want...
5 Apr 202349min
Fireworks in the chamber, Defence Forces in crisis, battle of the Irish Times columnists
Cormac McQuinn and Pat Leahy join Hugh to look back at the week in politics:Bad-tempered Dáil debates on confidence motions this weekDefence Forces in crisis following the Women of Honour reportUS pre...
31 Mars 202328min
'Northern Ireland has moved on' - Fintan O'Toole on 25th anniversary of the Belfast Agreement
April marks 25 years since the Belfast or Good Friday Agreement was reached, ending the Troubles and establishing a new political arrangement on the island of Ireland.But today the institutions that w...
29 Mars 202347min
The Independents’ policy setting power, unhappy Greens and a perilous position for the government
Despite the government's comfortable defeat of a motion of no confidence this week, the fallout continues as it reacts to the forthcoming lifting of the eviction ban. "They've made a hames of it," acc...
24 Mars 202335min
