Episodios

  • THE YOUNG AND THE DAMNED: Eoin O’Malley

    THE YOUNG AND THE DAMNED: Eoin O’Malley
    Nov 20 2025
    Comments by billionaire Denis O’Brien that some young people now feel entitled and that there is a decline in work ethic among the young have received much negative reaction. However, one voice that says O’Brien was talking sense is political scientist Eoin O’Malley, who is an associate professor in DCU. O’Malley, through his work has experience of the problems and foibles of young people emerging from education today. And he has strong opinions on whether remote working is actually working. Eoin is this week’s guest on the podcast.

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    35 m
  • CATHERINE CONNOLLY BECOMES IRELAND'S 10TH PRESIDENT

    CATHERINE CONNOLLY BECOMES IRELAND'S 10TH PRESIDENT
    Nov 13 2025

    This week, after 14 years in office, Michael D Higgins left Áras an Uachtaran for the last time and Catherine Connolly was sworn in as the 10th President of Ireland.


    In her inauguration speech, she said that the president should be “a unifying presence—a steady hand, but also a catalyst for change”.


    Irish Examiner deputy political editor Paul Hosford joins the podcast to give us the details as Ms Connolly aims to hit the ground running as she takes the reins.

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    39 m
  • PROGRESSING IRELAND: Sean Keyes

    PROGRESSING IRELAND: Sean Keyes
    Nov 6 2025
    Progress Ireland is a relatively unknown think tank from what might be described as the centre right of Irish politics. Among its backers are the billionaire brother Patrick and John Collison from Limerick. The think tank describes itself as “on a mission to connect Ireland to proven policy solutions around the world”. But what do they stand for specifically and is their message resonating in the political firmament. Progress Ireland’s director Sean Keyes is this week’s guest on the podcast.

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    38 m
  • DJ’s LONG FALL: Eimear Ni Bhraonain.

    DJ’s LONG FALL: Eimear Ni Bhraonain.
    Nov 3 2025

    DJ Carey has been sentenced to five and a half years in prison for defrauding at least ten people out of various sums on money on the false premise that he was suffering from cancer. Carey was hurling’s first superstar whose exploits on the pitch thrilled the whole country. How did it all go wrong? What prompted him to head down the dark alley that led to imprisonment for the most grievous kind of deception? Eimear Ni Bhraonain’s new book The Dodger gives insight and detail in response to those questions. Eimear is today’s guest on the podcast.

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    40 m
  • TERRY PRONE: The Political Years

    TERRY PRONE: The Political Years
    Oct 30 2025

    Political communication was brought to a fine art by Terry Prone, her late husband Tom Savage and their mentor Bunny Carr. Their work was done and felt behind the scenes of successive governments and among numerous politicians. Now Terry is telling all in her memoir from the political years, which includes a whole raft of narratives about how some major figures in Irish politics coped at times of crisis and challenges.

    Her book is entitled “I’m glad you asked me that”, a phrase she insists she has never, nor ever would, tell a client to issue. Terry Prone is this week’s guest on the podcast.

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    46 m
  • MORE THAN A GAME: Michael Moynihan

    MORE THAN A GAME: Michael Moynihan
    Oct 23 2025
    The GAA has deep roots right across Irish society, culture and the economy. On one level it has never been as popular but often threats lurk at the time when the sun is shining. The Irish Examiner’s Michael Moynihan has spent much of his career tracking progress in the GAA and now he has produced a book that looks at the future, the hopes, the dreams and the threats that are being posed. Michael is this week’s guest on the podcast.

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    32 m
  • TRUMP’S PEACE OF THE ACTION: Scott Lucas

    TRUMP’S PEACE OF THE ACTION: Scott Lucas
    Oct 16 2025
    Against the odds, Donald Trump has managed, at least temporarily, to stop the bombing and slaughter in Gaza. He has brokered a twenty point peace plan that could potentially ensure both peace and justice in an area that has been devastated. But will it work? And does Trump have the patience and political interest in ensuring that the long hard slog is as successful as the photo opportunities he availed of this week. Professor Scott Lucas from the Clinton Institute in UCD joins the podcast.

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    40 m
  • A WEEK AND A HALF: BUDGET BLUES AND GAVIN GONE

    A WEEK AND A HALF: BUDGET BLUES AND GAVIN GONE
    Oct 9 2025
    Irish Examiner Political Editor Paul Hosford joins Mick to talk over the shock departure of Jim Gavin from the presidential campaign and what now for the race for the Aras. On Tuesday the government introduced its first budget to the sound of groans from the general public and sirens sounding from economists. It was by any standards a week and a half.

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    47 m