Leo's gift to the new Dáil is a possible constitutional mess
With the help of a column in the Sunday Times, Leo Varadkar has casually lobbed a grenade at the new Dáil: are the positions of some new junior minsters constitutionally sound? It now looks like likel...
30 Jan 202531min
The government's next big test: survive five years
What a week. An unprecedented start to the Dáil term. A temporary and perhaps uneasy truce over speaking rights that allowed the government to get off the ground. The Opposition putting forward a rare...
24 Jan 202529min
Dáil chaos: We can’t stress enough how unprecedented today was
The process of voting in a new taoiseach is usually a fairly routine affair. The opposition parties have their say, the government parties and their supporters have theirs, the vote is ultimately pass...
22 Jan 20258min
A dash of Healy Rae won't liven up the government's five-year plan
Something we're enthusiastic about: we're back for a new season! Something we're not enthusiastic about: the new Programme for Government.Our team — Christine Bohan, Christina Finn, and Jane Matthews ...
16 Jan 202527min
And our award for Politician of the Year goes to...
... well, we're afraid you'll have to wait until our producer/barman counts the votes in accordance with PR-STV and reveals the winner at the end of the episode.The team — Christine Bohan, Christina F...
21 Dec 202458min
Well, that escalated quickly: the Eoin Hayes drama
We're now stuck in government formation purgatory amd struggling to keep track of which group-of-the-day is vying for a seat at the Cabinet table. There's also murmurings of who the next Ceann Comhair...
12 Dec 202434min
How Stephen Donnelly went from firebrand independent to unseated minister
The general election is... over? And it's clear that the team have gone a little stir-crazy after a few too many hours in count centres.Christine Bohan, Christina Finn, and Sinéad O'Carroll sit down t...
3 Dec 202437min
Hutch's failed election bid raises so many questions about Irish politics
The media scrums in the RDS were growing bigger and bigger as the count went on... and then Gerald Hutch arrived.The gangland figure's failed election bid drew huge attention from national and interna...
1 Dec 202430min
