The best analysis of the Irish political scene featuring Irish Times journalists, political thinkers and the occasional politician. Hosted by Hugh Linehan. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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Gesamtlänge aller Episoden: 23 days 20 hours 8 minutes
Under pressure: Roderic O'Gorman on tackling the refugee accommodation crisis
Minister for Integration Roderic O’Gorman is the man at the centre of one of the most severe and contentious problems facing the State: how to handle the huge increase in people arriving to seek International Protection...
Is the political system starting to bend to asylum seeker protests?
Host Hugh Linehan is joined Cormac McQuinn and Jennifer Bray on this week’s wrap with housing for refugees and asylum seekers, and the lack of alternative accommodation, now a perennial talking point, especially in this year of elections...
Are Britain's media and politics broken? With James O'Brien
British broadcaster and author James O'Brien returns to Inside Politics to talk about his most recent book, How They Broke Britain.
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‘Referendums that won’t grasp the imagination’
Are the upcoming March referendums not as easy to understand as they should be?
Vote! Vote! Vote! A year of election predictions in one podcast
In the first half of 2024 highly consequential elections will take place in India, Pakistan, Indonesia, South Africa and Mexico among others. Things get closer to home later in the year with European parliament elections, local elections and possibly a general election in Ireland. And the UK and US both go to the polls in November...
Ask us anything, 2023 edition - part two
It's part two of the traditional Inside Politics end-of-year Ask Us Anything podcast. Hugh Linehan, Pat Leahy, Jennifer Bray, Harry McGee and Cormac McQuinn are in celebratory mood as they answer your questions about elections, policies and politicians.
Wishing a Happy New Year to all our listeners.
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A closer look at attitudes to reunification
North and South, how open are citizens to constitutional changes in order to make a United Ireland work? How much economic pain would they willing to bear? What level of short-term pain be worth the long-term gain?
Finding out about such attitudes is one of the goals of North and South, a collaboration between The The Irish Times and ARINS, itself a joint research project of the Royal Irish Academy (RIA) and the Keough-Naughton Centre for Irish Studies at the University...
Mary Lou McDonald on house prices, migration policy, defamation cases and more
Sinn Féin party leader and Dublin Central TD Mary Lou McDonald sat down with Pat Leahy to talk about a range of policy areas, from housing to migration and reunification. They also discussed the practice of some Sinn Féin members to take legal proceedings against media outlets and journalists. Pat and Hugh Linehan listen back and analyse the potential taoiseach's answers.
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