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Trump's support for reunification grabs the headlines on a colourful day

President Trump and his vast, costly entourage have rolled through Dublin on the way to his golf course, meeting with the Taoiseach and President Connolly along the way. As with other recent encounters between representatives of the State and Trump, there were no major diplomatic incidents for I ...

Camo cocaine; updated Metrolink costs; Your clamping stories

Crime gangs are disguising cocaine as coal, paper and treacle to smuggle it into the State and are changing the genetics of cannabis plants to circumvent Irish drugs laws, the head of Forensic Science Ireland (FSI) has said. Updated cost projections for the Metrolink now estimate the project wil ...

TD Michael Healy-Rae assaulted in his car in Dublin

Independent TD Michael Healy-Rae is recovering in hospital after he was assaulted in Dublin. We get the details on this with Pat Leahy, Political Editor, The Irish Times. 

Latest poll numbers show neither Government nor Opposition all that popular with electorate

Pat Leahy and Cormac McQuinn join Hugh Linehan to look back on the week in politics: In the first Irish Times national poll since February, the lack of movement in party support points to an electorate not wholly enamoured by the incumbent Government but not exactly enthused about the alternat ...

Siobhán Fenton worked for Sinn Féin. She explains why it has not won power

Sinn Fein emerged from 2020's general election in pole position to challenge Fine Gael and Fianna Fail and potentially take power next time around. That didn't happen, with support ebbing away as a series of events, both internal and external, shook the party's confidence. That's the picture pai ...

Chambers warns departments over overspending

Pat Leahy, Irish Times Political Editor.  See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Budget 2027: Does this giveaway budget have potential banana skins that might lie ahead for the Government?

First up on this budget special, host Ciarán Hancock was joined on the line by Irish Times political editor Pat Leahy from Leinster House who took us through the headline elements of the budget. In part two we focused on childcare, where many parents are put to the pin of their collar paying for ...

Political journalist Pat Leahy and Damien discuss RTE funding controversy

As widely reported this morning (Friday), RTE is likely to get the 20m it lost in the Budget if the broadcaster satisfies Government that its reform and redundancy programme is on track, senior Cabinet figures believe. There were interventions from the Taoiseach and the Tanaiste yesterday after ...

RTÉ funding snub not a good look for Patrick O’Donovan

Pat Leahy and Harry McGee join Hugh Linehan to look back on the week in politics: The fallout from Budget 2027 has been minimal, save for Minister for Media Patrick O’Donovan’s eleventh-hour decision to cut State subvention to RTÉ by €20 million. Having seen his department pre-budget demands n ...

#149 its the most wonderful time of the year (FREE)

The Ligers talk about the hit movie Digger starring Tom Cruise! RTÉ commemorates the 3rd year anniversary of October 7th by interviewing a scary ghoul by the name of Thomas Hand! The Green Party in the UK votes to recognise Zionism as racism. Then in the second half over on www.patreon.com/celti ...