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Mary Hanafin, Election Drama
May 7th 2014 On today’s show, Mary Hanafin tells us about the ‘hames’ Fianna Fail has made of her nomination to run in the local elections, and why she rejected her party leader’s pleas to withdraw from the contest. Meanwhile, Kathy Sheridan has been on the campaign trail, following Luke Ming Flanagan’s quest for a European Parliament seat, and Fiach Kelly tells us why the knives will be out for Micheal Martin if he doesn’t’ deliver a good result on May 23rd. Plus Rory Costello of the University of Limerick introduces EUVox 2014, the voting advice application now available on irishtimes.com, which helps you find out which party best matches your political views. Inside Politics is a weekly politics podcast presented by the digital editor of the Irish Times Hugh Linehan and produced by Sinead O’Shea. It can be listened to and downloaded via Soundcloud and iTunes. It can be delivered for free to you each week via this link. https://itun.es/i66S4x2 #iTunes Android users can access this podcast via stitcher.com/s?fid=44906&refid=stpr