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EPISODE · Oct 14, 2025 · 33 MIN

Ep 1 - What can the President actually do?

from What Were We Like · host RTÉ

In the first episode of What Were We Like?’s special five-part series on the history of the Presidency, Diarmaid Ferriter and Catriona Crowe talk about how the office came into being in the first place, Eamon de Valera’s role in shaping its powers, and what the president actually can and cannot do. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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