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Beyond the Pale with Cormac Lucey and David Quinn

by Cormac Lucey and David Quinn

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About the show

Every era in Ireland has its certainties. In the 1970s: moral conservatism, economic caution and a country still rooted in the land. Today: human rights, secularism, open borders, Brussels-first, climate action and green energy. Both positions were held with total confidence. Both were, or will be, partly wrong. Cormac Lucey and David Quinn step outside the consensus to ask the questions nobody in Irish politics wants to answer, and to work out what Ireland's long-term interests actually require.