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Gesamtlänge aller Episoden: 23 days 12 hours 55 minutes
Harris delivers on Stardust as McEntee fumbles the border question
Hugh Linehan is joined by Pat Leahy and Harry McGee to look back on the week in politics:
- Taoiseach Simon Harris’s sure-footed performance as he delivered an apology to the Stardust tragedy victims.
- Less good was Minister for Justice Helen McEntee’s appearance at an Oireachtas committee, where she struggled to answer a question about the State’s handling of international protection applicants...
From the Rwanda Bill to the Cass Report - the issues driving UK politics
We focus on our next-door neighbours with London Correspondent Mark Paul
Grading Harris, migration pact flashpoint, the lure of Taylor Swift
On today’s Inside Politics podcast, Hugh Linehan, Jack Horgan-Jones and Jennifer Bray look back on the week in politics:
Two weeks in, Simon Harris has already experienced some minor controversies as Taoiseach...
The uncertain futures of Poland and Germany - with Derek Scally
With its fast-growing economy and increasing significance as a player in European security, Poland’s political direction will have a major bearing on the future of Europe. But the centrist coalition led by Donald Tusk is grappling with how to unwind some of the oppressive legacy of its predecessors, the right nationalist Law and Justice party.
Meanwhile, Poland’s neighbour to the West faces a different set of problems...
Northern Ireland has weathered Jeffery Donaldson's shock departure - for now
The podcast was live in Belfast
McDonald hits a nerve as Harris takes the reins
Jennifer Bray and Pat Leahy dissect the new Taoiseach's first day
Can Simon Harris build any kind of policy departure before this government ends?
Ahead of Simon Harris’s first Fine Gael Ard Fheis as party leader, Cormac McQuinn and Jack Horgan-Jones join Hugh Linehan to discuss the potential quick wins and policy departures Harris can look to implement when his expected tenure as taoiseach begins next Tuesday.
And while we were denied the excitement of hustings and voting, there is still much speculation as to the potential make-up of Simon Harris’s Cabinet...
David Rieff on Ukraine, Gaza, populism and the death of art
On today’s Inside Politics podcast, Hugh is joined by David Rieff. David is the author of many books, including In Praise of Forgetting. He reported on war in Bosnia in the 1990s, and has written on everything from the political and ethical complexities of humanitarian aid and international intervention in sub-Saharan Africa to political developments in Central and south America...
Fintan O'Toole: What does Simon Harris stand for?
What sort of a politician is Simon Harris? What can we learn from his record? And what sort of a Taoiseach is he going to be? Columnist Fintan O'Toole joins Hugh Linehan and Jennifer Bray to dig into the presumptive taoiseach's record and the state of the Fine Gael party.
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Simon Harris takes the reins of a party in trouble
Hugh is joined by Pat Leahy and Harry McGee to talk about the swift emergence of Simon Harris as Fine Gael leader and taoiseach-in-waiting. They look back at his career to date and identify a potential strategy to lead Fine Gael out of its current predicament.
But first, more on the unexpected resignation of Leo Varadkar.
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