What's the best way to make Ireland more equal?
Left-leaning think-tank Tasc has published a new report to mark its 25th year. the report (The State We Are In - Inequality in Ireland 2026) suggests that the redistribution of wealth via the tax syst...
14 Sep 43min
Trump's support for reunification grabs the headlines on a colourful day
President Trump and his vast, costly entourage have rolled through Dublin on the way to his golf course, meeting with the Taoiseach and President Connolly along the way. As with other recent encounter...
12 Sep 26min
Why has Occupied Territories legislation taken so long?
Inside Politics Live is coming to Cork on September 30th. Get your tickets here.Pat Leahy and Harry McGee join Hugh Linehan to look back on the week in politics:Green leader Roderic O'Gorman has propo...
11 Sep 52min
'Disruptive' Jack Chambers talks tough on HSE overspending and budget negotiations
Inside Politics Live is coming to Cork on September 30th. Get your tickets here.Minister for Public Expenditure Jack Chambers talks to Jack Horgan-Jones about pre-Budget negotiations, HSE overspending...
10 Sep 48min
P aul Mason on communism, China and the crisis of the left
British journalist Paul Mason talks to Hugh about his new book Reds: A Global History of Communism.The book traces communism’s story from early human egalitarian impulses to modern China’s controlled ...
7 Sep 45min
What will President Connolly say to president Trump?
Inside Politics Live is coming to Cork on September 30th. Get your tickets here.Pat Leahy and Cormac McQuinn join Hugh Linehan to look back on the week in politics:Labour’s annual think-in is happenin...
4 Sep 53min
'Equal-opportunities satirist' Paul Howard takes aim at Irish reunification
In his new novel A Nation Once Again, Paul Howard, best known for the Ross O'Carroll Kelly series, turns his satirical eye from wealthy South Dublin to an imaginary government department devoted to pr...
2 Sep 41min
Where next for Simon, Micheál and Mary Lou?
Hugh, Pat, Ellen and Jack took to the stage at Electric Picnic on Saturday to discuss politics and take some uestions from the audience. They discussed UK prime minister Andy Burnham's controversial c...
31 Aug 33min
