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Inside Politics

Declan Conlon

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  • 18 minutes 4 seconds
    Election Daily: campaigning begins in shadow of Trump's return

    The Dáil has been dissolved and the 2024 general election is officially underway. Jennifer Bray and Pat Leahy join Hugh to discuss day one of the campaign:


    • How Taoiseach Simon Harris addressed the country
    • Poster wars had begun prematurely on lampposts all across Ireland
    • Mary Lou McDonald spoke about Sinn Féin's strategy for this campaign, to a soundtrack of Damien Dempsey


    Plus: Tickets are now available for Inside Politics live in Dublin on Wednesday, November 20th at 6.30pm.


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    8 November 2024, 4:21 pm
  • 6 minutes 33 seconds
    Election Daily: follow GE24 every day with Hugh Linehan and the Irish Times politics team

    November 29th is now confirmed as the date of General Election 2024. Election Daily from The Irish Times Inside Politics podcast will update you on the campaign every weekday between now and then.


    Hugh Linehan and Jack Horgan-Jones are here to briefly update listeners on what to expect from the show, when to listen out for episodes and what the opening stages of the campaign will look like.


    Plus: Tickets are now available for Inside Politics live in Dublin on Wednesday, November 20th at 6.30pm.


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    7 November 2024, 4:30 pm
  • 42 minutes 50 seconds
    How Trump won and what it means - with Fintan O'Toole, Steven Carroll and Jennifer Bray
    Live from Palm Beach Florida, where Donald Trump is celebrating his historic victory in the 2024 US presidential race, Steven Carroll joins Hugh, Fintan O'Toole and Jennifer Bray to discuss what went wrong for Democratic nominee Kamala Harris, why so many categories of American supported Trump and what his win means for politics and the wider world.

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    6 November 2024, 9:02 am
  • 23 minutes 11 seconds
    Could Simon Harris spring a final election surprise?

    When will Simon Harris dissolve the Dáil and go to the Áras? Could he pull a surprise, or are there any final banana skins that could disrupt his plans?


    Jennifer Bray joins Hugh to talk about the choreography of the week. Plus they look at some pre-campaign skirmishes between Micheal Martin and his Fine Gael colleagues and Sinn Féin's bullish candidate selection decisions.


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    4 November 2024, 4:29 pm
  • 45 minutes 36 seconds
    The final countdown to the US election


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    1 November 2024, 6:03 pm
  • 59 minutes 31 seconds
    David McWilliams: Money is humanity's greatest invention - but Ireland lacks the skill to use it
    Economist, podcaster and Irish Times columnist David McWilliams joins Hugh to talk about his new book Money: A Story of Humanity. They talk about the meaning of money and how it should be used to improve lives and societies.

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    30 October 2024, 1:28 pm
  • 43 minutes 46 seconds
    Clare Daly throws a cat among the pigeons in Dublin Central

    Jennifer Bray and Harry McGee join Hugh to discuss the week in politics:


    • The Government is completing what it can of its unfinished legislative programme before the general election, and that means the 'guillotine' - a procedure that shortens the time needed to debate bills as they pass through the Oireachtas - is getting heavy use this week. Which bills are getting chopped - and which are getting dropped?


    • Clare Daly's decision to run in Dublin Central adds another colourful and effective political character to the mix in that constituency. But with so many independents in contention around the country, the 34th Dáil is likely to be diverse.


    • Jennifer calls out Hugh's obsession with Seanad reform. Is there some Seanad-related trauma deep in Hugh's past?


    Plus they pick their Irish Times articles of the week:


    On-the-ground coverage from the US by Keith Duggan and Steven Carroll who are meeting voters and surveying swing states as the historically close US election draws near


    Patrick Freyne's review of a steamy Jilly Cooper TV adaptation


    Justine McCarthy warns the coalition parties not to gloat over Sinn Féin's failures - their own records are far from perfect




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    25 October 2024, 2:15 pm
  • 52 minutes 55 seconds
    GE24: The battleground constituencies
    Now that it is confirmed there will be a general election this year, the Irish Times politics team can finally unleash their predictions - or should that be possible future outcomes - of which candidates and parties will emerge victorious from some of the most competitive constituencies in the State. Jennifer Bray, Harry McGee and Pat Leahy tackle Dublin Central, Dublin Bay South, Carlow-Kilkenny, Mayo, Cavan-Monaghan and both Tipperarys.

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    23 October 2024, 1:55 pm
  • 28 minutes 13 seconds
    Democrats are sweating but nothing is certain in the race for the White House
    Trump or Harris? We'll know America's answer in just two weeks, but until then the race is too close to call. With the margins so tight, Democrats and Republicans are desperately seeking advantage in the key swing states, spending millions of dollars on TV ads. But it is the Republicans feeling happiest, with polls tightening in Donald Trump's favour in places like Wisconsin. That's where Washington correspondent Keith Duggan talks to Hugh from today. They discuss the last-minute attacks each candidate is directing at their opponent, Donald Trump's declining rhetoric and the shifting landscape of class- and race-based political loyalties that makes American politics so unpredictable.

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    21 October 2024, 4:40 pm
  • 39 minutes 50 seconds
    Will Sinn Féin’s recent controversies have an impact in the election?

    Host Hugh Linehan is joined by Jack Horgan-Jones and Cormac McQuinn to look back on the week in politics:


    ·     With a general election now likely a matter of weeks away, it is the main opposition party, and not government parties, who continue to dominate the headlines. And they are unwanted headlines relating to former TD Brian Stanley, former senator Niall Ó Donnghaile and former press officer Michael McMonagle.

     

    ·     And with all those controversies piling up for Sinn Féin, are the Government in danger of overreach should they seek to force a vote on Brian Stanley’s replacement as PAC chair?

     

    ·     And could former Fine Gael TDs Alan Shatter and Kate O’Connell’s decisions to run as independents give their old party cause for concern in Dublin-Rathdown and Dublin Bay South respectively come election time?

     

    Plus, the panellists pick their favourite IT reads of the week:


    ·     Newton Emerson on Britain’s anti-obesity jab plan.


    ·     Kathy Sheridan urges us not to write off celebrity candidates.


    ·     Keith Duggan writes about why a small Democratic stronghold in Detroit is deserting Kamala Harris for Donald Trump.

     

    Produced by John Casey with JJ Vernon on sound.


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    18 October 2024, 1:22 pm
  • 48 minutes 37 seconds
    Election before Christmas? Ok, says Micheál Martin

    Tánaiste Micheál Martin sits down with Hugh Linehan and Pat Leahy to talk about the timing of the next general election. For the first time he states clearly that he is open to the vote taking place before Christmas - but with some caveats.


    Martin also talks about his attitude to Sinn Féin as a potential future partner in government and whether Ireland could take unilateral action


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    16 October 2024, 3:55 pm
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