Life After Brexit: Lives, Livelihoods & Communities At Risk
Simon Carswell has been investigating the potential impact of Brexit on people - their lives, their communities and their businesses. He talks to Hugh Linehan about what he has discovered, including t...
8 Feb 201934min
May's Subtle Backstop Shift / Children's Hospital Blame Game
First: A subtle but deliberate shift was noted in Theresa May's position on the Brexit backstop during a trip to Belfast yesterday. As the two-day Northern Ireland visit draws to a close today, is her...
6 Feb 201947min
Brexit: What is Theresa May's Strategy?
Theresa May has united Tory MPs behind her plan to go to Brussels to seek legally binding changes to the Brexit withdrawal agreement, exploring 'alternative options' to the Irish backstop. The trouble...
30 Jan 201937min
Deborah Lipstadt on Antisemitism of The Right And Left
Sunday is International Holocaust Remembrance Day and to mark it Hugh talks to academic and author Deborah Lipstadt about her new book Antisemitism Here and Now. They discuss the growth of antisemitis...
25 Jan 201941min
Brexit Reality Bites / No Child 2020 with Tanya Ward & Fintan O'Toole
First: Pat Leahy on the comments yesterday by an EU Commission spokesperson suggesting that a hard border will appear in the case of a no deal Brexit, a suggestion flatly rejected by Simon Coveney. B...
23 Jan 201956min
Peadar Tóibín on Building A New Party With 'No Taboo Subjects'
Public meetings to introduce pro-life TD Peadar Tóibín's new, as-yet unnamed political party have been drawing decent crowds around the country in recent weeks. Already 1,400 people have joined the p...
18 Jan 201938min
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
