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The best analysis of the Irish political scene featuring Irish Times reporters and columnists, outside experts and political guests. Also on this channel: Inside Story, an occasional series...
Pat Leahy and Jack Horgan-Jones join Hugh Linehan to look back on the week in politics: · The findings of the Irish Times/TG4 opinion poll o...
Hugh Linehan hosts a live Inside Politics show in Galway’s Róisín Dubh with Pat Leahy, Ellen Coyne and Galway native Harry McGee ahead of th...
Ellen Coyne and Pat Leahy join Hugh Linehan to look back on the week in politics: · There are now 14 candidates confirmed as running in Dubl...
Fintan O’Toole talks to Hugh Linehan about Fianna Fáil as the party’s 100th birthday draws near. Fintan credits the party with helping creat...
Hugh is joined by Irish Times Washington correspondent Keith Duggan to talk about the dramatic events at the White House Correspondents' Ass...
Ellen Coyne and Jack Horgan-Jones join Hugh Linehan to look back on the week in politics: · The posters are going up, and candidates are pre...
The country is moving on from the protests that dominated the national discussion over Easter, even as what the protests actually meant cont...
Cormac McQuinn and Pat Leahy join Hugh Linehan to look back on the week in politics: · There were renewed questions about the future of Mich...
Hugh, Pat and Ellen are joined by columnist Gerard Howlin to talk about a tumultuous day in Leinster House that capped a terrible week for t...
All agree that the scale of Hungarian prime minister Viktor Orbán’s defeat in yesterday’s general election is hugely significant, for Hungar...
Ellen Coyne and Jack Horgan-Jones join Hugh Linehan to look back on the week in politics: It was becoming clear towards the end of last week...
In the final instalment of our series on Labour’s time in government from 2011 to 2016, things get darker as it becomes clear economic progr...
Inside Politics is coming to Galway in May for a live recording. Get your tickets here . In part two of this three-part series on Labour's h...
Inside Politics is coming to Galway in May for a live recording. Get your tickets here . When Labour came to power in 2011 Ireland was in th...
Oliver Sears, founder of Holocaust Awareness Ireland, joins Hugh to talk about his growing alarm at the rise of anti-Semitism in Ireland and...
This week the Government decided to unveil a €250 million package to help citizens meet the elevated cost of fuel. And this could be just th...
Seán Lemass is remembered as the man who changed Ireland. Several opinion polls have noted Lemass as the country's most admired taoiseach. H...
Eoin Drea is a senior researcher at the Wilfried Martens Centre, the official think tank of the European People’s Party (of which Fine Gael...
Ellen Coyne and Jack Horgan-Jones join Hugh Linehan to look back on the week in politics: · Israeli strikes on Iranian natural gas infrastru...
Taoiseach Michel Martin has been meeting US president Donald Trump as part of the annual St Patrick’s Day pageantry. Martin once again faced...
Ellen Coyne and Harry McGee join Hugh Linehan to look back on the week in politics: · Taoiseach Micheál Martin’s St Patrick’s Day visit to T...
As war in the Middle East rages on, the world's superpowers are making diplomatic representations to end it, and contingencies to protect th...
The Irish-American experience fitted seamlessly into the story of the United States as a “nation of immigrants”. In the Trump era that narra...
Naomi O’Leary and Cormac McQuinn join Hugh Linehan to look back on the week in politics: · After six days of US-Israeli attacks on Iran, the...
While the world’s attention is focused on the Middle East, Inside Politics looks at the US sphere of influence on Cuba, which is facing ever...
Denis Staunton, author of The Irish Times Global Briefing newsletter on international affairs, joins Hugh to talk about the escalating war i...
Ellen Coyne and Cormac McQuinn join Hugh Linehan to look back on the week in politics: · In the Dáil on Wednesday, Taoiseach Micheál Martin...
Campaigner Maria Steen, whose failed bid to launch a run for the presidency last year put the spotlight on the nominations process, talks to...
Under this coalition Government Ireland's climate ambitions are colliding with political reality. Hugh talks to Climate and Science Correspo...
Jack Horgan-Jones and Pat Leahy join Hugh Linehan to look back on the week in politics: · The sharp criticism that greeted a review of alloc...
13 months in, Donald Trump's second term is proving to be a much more radical political project than his first. On today's podcast Hugh is j...
Disputes over freedom of speech, censorship and the shifting norms of acceptable discourse are part and parcel of modern political debate. N...
Jack Horgan-Jones and Harry McGee join Hugh Linehan to look back on the week in politics: · This week saw the European Parliament approve a...
How Ireland Voted is a regular publication featuring academic analysis of Irish elections. The latest edition looks at the 2024 general elec...
John Mearsheimer returns to the podcast to talk to Hugh about his view of geopolitics and global security in 2026. They talk about Donald Tr...
Pat Leahy and Ellen Coyne join Hugh Linehan to look back on the week in politics: · When it comes to the housing crisis or whether to spend...
Last week the Government confirmed it will push ahead with legislation to change how the Defence Forces are deployed overseas, including the...
Harry McGee and Cormac McQuinn join Hugh Linehan to look back on the week in politics: · The floods brought by Storm Chandra earlier this we...
Legislation to reform Ireland's residential property rental landscape is being fast-tracked through the Dáil. What impact will it have? On s...
Ellen Coyne and Pat Leahy join Jack Horgan-Jones to look back on the week in politics: · This week saw EU-US relations shift as the near-con...
Jack Power and Jack Horgan-Jones join Pat Leahy to assess a dramatic week in which the transatlantic alliance took a further battering from...
Harry McGee, Ellen Coyne and Mark Paul join Hugh Linehan to look back on the week in politics: · The Minister with responsibility for artifi...
Despite global turmoil, the focus of Irish politics in 2026 is set to remain on matters close to home. Pat Leahy and Jack Horgan-Jones join...
US president Donald Trump wants to acquire Greenland, asserting strategic and security needs but also a 'psychological need' to take over th...
Jack Horgan-Jones and Ellen Coyne join Hugh Linehan to look back on the week in politics: · The long-anticipated EU-Mercosur trade deal was...
After the weekend’s US airstrikes on Venezuela, and arrest of its president Nicolás Maduro by US special forces, The Irish Times’ China Corr...
For part two of our festive ‘Ask Me Anything’ episode Hugh Linehan is joined on today’s Inside Politics podcast by Jack Horgan Jones, Cormac...
This episode was first published in July 2025. You can tell an awful lot about a society by who it labels a genius. You can also learn from...
Hugh is joined by Jack Horgan Jones, Cormac McQuinn and Ellen Coyne for part one of our traditional festive AMA. This year listeners asked a...
Dr Kevin Cunningham of TUD is one of Ireland’s most insightful political scientists and pollsters. At the Inside Politics live show in early...