Summit surprises, wrapping the year
Jennifer Bray and Pat Leahy join Hugh Linehan for the final weekly politics wrap of 2023.Jennifer Bray is dialling in from Brussels, where the EU Council summit has been taking place, with national le...
15 Dec 202337min
Cop 28, the geopolitics of Net Zero and the future of energy - with Helen Thompson
An agreement has been reached at Cop 28 that includes a commitment to phasing out the use of fossil fuels, with some hailing it as an historic moment in the struggle to mitigate climate change. But an...
13 Dec 202349min
Sinn Féin lose confidence in their own motion
On today’s Inside Politics podcast, Cormac McQuinn and Pat Leahy join Hugh Linehan to look back on the week in politics:There’s been a lukewarm reception to Cabinet-approved plans for referendums to a...
8 Dec 202335min
The Origins and the problems of 'The Great Awokening'
In his new book, The Identity Trap: A Story of Ideas and Power in Our Time, political scientist Yascha Mounk has written the most comprehensive and detailed account yet of how a new form of progressiv...
6 Dec 202350min
2023's political highs, lows, winners, losers and funny bits
Hugh Linehan and podcast regulars Pat Leahy, Jack Horgan-Jones and Jennifer Bray got together on Wednesday to look back on all the major (and some not-so-major) developments in Irish politics in 2023....
1 Dec 202358min
Talking about talking about immigration
Is it time for the political system to grapple more explicitly with how immigration is changing Ireland and what sort of model - integration? multiculturalism? - we as a state wish to pursue? Or is s...
29 Nov 202355min
Riot response a major challenge for McEntee
This week the Friday wrap panellists are joined by Irish Times crime and security correspondent Conor Gallagher to talk about how Garda Commissioner Drew Harris, Minister for Justice Helen McEntee and...
24 Nov 202333min
Will economic trouble mean an early election?
"With economic signals flashing amber, the next Irish general election might be sooner than we thought", argues Cliff Taylor in an analysis piece for The Irish Times. But does Cliff's economic reasoni...
22 Nov 202338min
