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...
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20 of 380 episodesYOU’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...
HEALTHY PURSUIT: Niamh Griffin
After the recent row between the Minister for Health and the Rotunda Hospital over consultants doing private work, a question arises as to h...
MORALITY AND WARS: Colin Sheridan
The Occupied Territories Bill and the triple lock are going to be landing hot and heavy in the public square in the coming months. Both issu...
THE HEALY RAE SPLIT
Michael Healy Rae’s revelation that he believes his brother Danny cost him and Kerry a ministry has rocked the most fabled political dynasty...
POLITICAL PITSTOP: Elaine Loughlin
The recent by-elections in Dublin and Galway took the temperature in politics right now and delivered victories to the Social Democrats and...
THE RISE OF KNEECAP: Dean Van Nguyen
The Belfast rap trio Kneecap bring second record Fenian and their incendiary mix of Irish-language hip-hop and politics to Cork with two 'in...
BY ELECTION SPECIAL: Louise Burne
Two constituencies go to the polls next Friday in byelections created by the resignations from the Dail of Pascal Donohue and Catherine Conn...
SOLDIERING TOWARDS DESTINY: Gary Murphy
Fianna Fail is a century old this year and the party is celebrating the occasion this weekend with its Ard Fheis. But where stands a party t...
NEVER NEVER LAND: Children and that hospital.
The Irish Examiner’s Louise Burne has memories of spending time in Temple Street hospital in Dublin as a child to treat a condition with whi...
BURIED SECRET: Barry Cummins
Tina Satchwell was murdered by her husband and her body hid in the family home where he continued to live for six years before it was discov...