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Beyond the Pale with Cormac Lucey and David Quinn

by Cormac Lucey and David Quinn

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  • Why Santa is bad and Scrooge is good.

    October 7, 2026 · 45 min

    In this week's edition of 'Beyond the Pale', Cormac Lucey and David Quinn discuss the budget and how every every politician wants to be Santa and no-one wants to be Scrooge. They explain why Social Democracy is the default position of…

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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.