LEFT HANGING ON THE RIGHT: Eoin O’Malley
The recent violent protests in France were attributed to far-left elements. In a milieu where far right interests are gaining support across...
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20 of 389 episodesBLOWING THE WHISTLE: Alan Kelly
There has been a drip feed of revelations about alleged malpractice in An Garda Siochana in recent weeks. Central to the allegations has bee...
BRIAN COWEN’S LEGACY: Gary Murphy.
Brian Cowen was elected Taoiseach just as the economic storm clouds were gathering in 2008. By the time he left office the country was depen...
BUDGET BLUES: Paul Hosford and Tadgh McNally.
How was it for you? For everybody it would appear that the budget was spread so thin it will be difficult to feel any difference. Neither au...
SOCIAL SUPERMARKET: Angela Ruttledge.
A new initiative that could herald a while new way of life in some disadvantaged communities is being set up. The social supermarket is a mo...
MAGILL AND THE 1980s: Kevin Rafter
Vincent Browne was the founding editor of Magill magazine and oversaw it, officially and unofficially, for the 1980s. It was a time of great...
OURSELVES ALONE: Siobhan Fenton
A new book takes us behind the closed doors of a party that remains something of a mystery. Sinn Fein to some appears to retain the closenes...
TRUMPED UP VISIT: Clodagh Harrington.
Donald Trump is visiting the country this weekend and it’s safe to say that many people, from the upper echelons of power down to the man an...
A NATION LIKE NO OTHER: Paul Howard
What would a united Ireland look like? Could we come up with imaginative solutions that would only cheese off everybody equally? Paul Howard...
FUEL FOR THOUGHT: Elaine Loughlin
The Dail has been recalled to delay the restoration of excise taxes in order to keep down the price of fuel. But is he government acting sim...
YOU’VE GOT A FRIEND: Catherine Heaney
Democracy is under threat right across the world, certainly in the liberal form that persisted since the end of the Second world war. Donald...
THE TREATY MAYOR: John Moran
It hasn’t been a smooth ride since John Moran was elected Mayor of Limerick, the first such office to be created in a city in the state. He...
GOVERNING FOR INSTANT GRATIFICATION: Elaine Loughlin
The coalition government, awash with cash and bereft of a core political compass, appears to be governing by the path of least resistance. T...
POWER OR PROCESS? Tadgh McNally
The Government says Ireland needs to build faster. To do that it is preparing legislation that could allow major infrastructure projects to...
THE MORALITY OF KILLING: John Ware
The running of agents in the North by the British state was a moral maze. Those who were in charge of the agents often had to decide whether...
FOOTBALL FEAST OR SPORTS WASHING: Colin Sheridan
As the World Cup comes to a conclusion we look back on a month of football to celebrate the best of it but also to ask where exactly the gam...
INDEFENSIBLE DEFENCE FORCE: Neil Michael.
For the last month a defence forces tribunal, that was over two decades in the making, has been hearing shocking evidence about how some off...
STILL HOME OF THE BRAVE AT 250? Marion McKeone
As America celebrates 250 years in existence as a nation, Marion McKeone looks at a country that is currently going through major upheaval w...
ANDY, WE HARDLY KNOW YA: Fergus Finlay
With Andy Burnham all but certain to be the next British prime minister in the coming days, we talk to Fergus Finlay about what he can expec...
Brexit Blues: Ian Cooper
Exactly ten years ago this week the UK voted to leave the EU and Brexit was born. At the time there were predictions that this could spell e...