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  • BUDGET BLUES: Paul Hosford and Tadgh McNally.

    October 8, 2026 · 43 min

    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 austerity nor giveaway it also left questions hanging. Such as where now for this government? What if…

  • SOCIAL SUPERMARKET: Angela Ruttledge.

    September 29, 2026 · 37 min

    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 model that has been tried successfully abroad and now is being introduced in north Dublin. It has…

  • MAGILL AND THE 1980s: Kevin Rafter

    September 24, 2026 · 45 min

    Vincent Browne was the founding editor of Magill magazine and oversaw it, officially and unofficially, for the 1980s. It was a time of great change and the emergence of outstanding journalists to document it. DCU academic and journalist…

  • OURSELVES ALONE: Siobhan Fenton

    September 17, 2026 · 41 min

    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 closeness of a tribe rather than a political party and its policies generally don’t follow a beaten…

  • TRUMPED UP VISIT: Clodagh Harrington.

    September 10, 2026 · 37 min

    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 and woman in the street, would prefer if he stayed home. He is here to attend the Irish Open golf…

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  • A NATION LIKE NO OTHER: Paul Howard

    September 3, 2026 · 58 min

    What would a united Ireland look like? Could we come up with imaginative solutions that would only cheese off everybody equally? Paul Howard, the creator of Ross O’Carroll Kelly has written a satirical novel set in a government department…

  • FUEL FOR THOUGHT: Elaine Loughlin

    August 27, 2026 · 32 min

    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 simply out of fear of a repeat of the fuel protests earlier this year? And what will happen if the…

  • YOU’VE GOT A FRIEND: Catherine Heaney

    August 20, 2026 · 43 min

    Democracy is under threat right across the world, certainly in the liberal form that persisted since the end of the Second world war. Donald Trump is leading the charge for a new form of populism and his administration is now providing…

  • THE TREATY MAYOR: John Moran

    August 13, 2026 · 50 min

    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 has clashed on a number of occasions with councillors and most recently there has been conflict…

  • GOVERNING FOR INSTANT GRATIFICATION: Elaine Loughlin

    August 6, 2026 · 37 min

    The coalition government, awash with cash and bereft of a core political compass, appears to be governing by the path of least resistance. The Irish Examiner’s Political Editor Elaine Loughlin recently outlined in a column how the…

  • POWER OR PROCESS? Tadgh McNally

    July 30, 2026 · 41 min

    The Government says Ireland needs to build faster. To do that it is preparing legislation that could allow major infrastructure projects to bypass parts of the planning system. At the same time, a major review of local democracy wants to…

  • THE MORALITY OF KILLING: John Ware

    July 23, 2026 · 36 min

    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 or not to allow a murder go ahead in order to protect an agent’s cover. But where is the morality…

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