All Episodes

Ep 2073: Fianna Fáil / Fine Gael: Is it time to merge?

Ep 2072: Syria - The fall of the house of Assad

Ep 2071: As Trump prepares to enter the White House America’s tolerance of liberals fades

Ep 2070: Michael Martin in the driving seat as coalition talks begin

Ep 2069: Syria - Assad falls as otherwise occupied Russia and Iran stand idly by

Ep 2068: Can Keir Starmer maintain the 'Special Relationship' with the US while strengthening friendship with the EU?

Ep 2067: French Political Crisis - Marine Le Pen continues her march towards power as Macron sinks

Ep 2066: Trump revolution begins with a bang as Biden’s presidency expires with a whimper

Ep 2065: Should Ireland adjust as the EU turns sharply right?

Ep 2064: General Election - FF / FG hold all the aces when it comes to forming a Government

Ep 2063: A Farewell to the Fairways

Ep 2062: A new president, a changed country, has America abandoned the rest of West?

Ep 2061: General Election - Ivan Yates, Fine Fáil to win and win big

Ep 2060: General Election - Leaders’ Debate sure to be decisive

Ep 2059: As Trump’s administration focuses on our corporate tax advantage Ireland should worry

Ep 2058: Putin’s nuclear threat would invite severe retaliation

Ep 2057: Trump begins his American revolution

Ep 2056: Trump’s Commerce Sec has Ireland in his sights

Ep 2055: General Election - Could it be the economy, stupid?

Ep 2054: Trumpism - an ideology or a state of mind?

Ep 2053: Shock and awe as Trump names his cabinet

Ep 2052: A hoax, says Trump, as time runs out for climate deniers

Ep 2051: Trump in the White House - a terrible moment in world history

Ep 2050: Economically Trump will take Ireland and the EU on a dangerous journey into the unknown

Ep 2049: Trump presidency unlikely to settle European divisions

Ep 2048: US Election 2024 - the people have spoken!

Ep 2047: Israel in Gaza - who can erase the scenes we'll never forget?

Ep 2046: US Election - divided Europe waits on divided America

Ep 2045: Rachel Reeves breaks promises to find ‘fix’ for British economy

Ep 2044: US braced for election results and what might follow

Ep 2043: Vampire State - the Rise and Fall of the Chinese Economy

Ep 2042: General Election - Fine Fáil and Fine Gael likely to return to Government on current numbers

Ep 2041: US Election - Trump’s proposed tariffs would rebound on US consumers

Ep 2040: US Presidential Election - still too close to call but Trump slight favourite

Ep 2039: Football’s greedy rulers hurting the game and its players

Ep 2038: A Russian perspective - the unholy alliance between Trump and Putin

Ep 2037: Britain’s Tory press ensures tough first 100 days for Keir Starmer

Ep 2036: Trump edges ahead in the race for the White House

Ep 2035: Sinn Féin’s troubles deepen as McDonald alleged to have misled the Dáil

Ep 2034: Cover-up and character assassination as Sinn Féin goes to war with itself

Ep 2033: As Netanyahu stokes the fires, Ireland’s UN troops in danger.

Ep 2032: General Election - To go early or late, will Simon Harris get it right?

Ep 2031: US 2024 Election - Teflon Trump as Woodward’s Putin revelations fail to stick

Ep 2030: War In Ukraine - The terrible price Ukraine will pay if Trump wins

Ep 2029: Downing St power play - Irishman wins the battle for Sir Keir’s ear

Ep 2028: Middle East Conflict - Israel poses serious threat to Irish troops on UN duty

Ep 2027: Trump, Putin and a Middle East triggered oil crisis pose real threats to Irish economy

Ep 2026: Out of control Netanyahu could cost Democrats the White House

Ep 2025: Budget 2025 - disliked by Shinners and Official Ireland

Ep 2024: Austria joins Europe’s far-right march

Ep 2023: Middle East - Netanyahu laying the seeds for Israel's own destruction

Ep 2022: Middle East/Israel - a pivotal moment in global history

Ep 2021: Presidential election - Turnout and Middle East the keys to the White House?

Ep 2020: New Labour Government makes life hard for itself and its supporters

Ep 2019: Bam Bam - more bad news for Children’s Hospital

Ep 2018: Who Killed Una Lynskey?

Ep 2017: US Election - too close to call, too consequential to ignore

Ep 2016: Danger signs - Israel’s deadly pagers and Putin’s nuclear threats

Ep 2015: Apple €14 billion - Ireland needs to invest in its infrastructure now

Ep 2014: Why the law of the jungle still prevails for concert tickets

Ep 2013: Presidential Debate - Kamala Harris a decisive winner over Trump but the race for the White House still close

Ep 2012: Apple and Ireland lose in EU’s highest court while all eyes on Washington and a Trump presidency

Ep 2011: Budget 2025 warning - The dangers inherent in a giveaway budget

Ep 2010: 1995 - 2020 From war to peace, from boom to bust - a turbulent 25 years in Irish life

Ep 2009: Netanyahu slaughter - Out of control Netanyahu ignoring Washington

Ep 2008: Unstable Trump versus unknown Harris - with a race too close to call tv debate could be decisive

Ep 2007: Can Keir Starmer make Britain work? The jury’s out.

Repost: Frank Connolly recalls the horror of the Dublin Monaghan Bombings 50 years ago

Repost: Michael Collins - The Man and The Myth

Repost: Bloody Sunday - A Dark Day That Changed Everything

Repost: Living the Dream

Repost: Why Ireland Should Stay Neutral and Europe should resist NATO’s embrace.

Repost: China’s ailing economy a problem for Xi Jinping and the world

Repost: Justice at last for the Stardust victims and their families

Repost: Diarmaid Ferriter - As Europe and the US turn right politically why Ireland rejects extremism

Repost: Who Really Owns Ireland? How we became tenants in our own land - and what we can do about it?

Repost: Dr Shahd Abusalama - anger and despair at the the West’s callous indifference to Palestinian suffering

Repost: Global Warming - Sleepwalking to catastrophe as we witness the evidence all around us

Repost: BP Fallon remembers Shane McGowan and Sinéad O’Connor, their lives and their work

Repost: Israel/Palestine - "the Two State Solution is dead, Israel killed it"

Repost: Prof. Avi Shlaim on the Israeli / Palestinian Conflict - A Jewish voice on the history that has led to the present crisis

Ep 2006: Joe Biden’s withdrawal from the Presidential race - did his inner circle conspire to hide his decline?

Ep 2005: Trump’s takeover of the GOP complete as Democrats isolate Biden

Repost: Liam Brady talks to Eamon about his adventurous life in football - Part 2

Repost: Special - Liam Brady talks to Eamon about his adventurous life in football - Part 1

Ep 2004: Joe Biden digs in as many in his party and donors despair of his chances of beating Trump

Ep 2003: Emmanuel Macron’s electoral gamble leaves France ungovernable

Ep 2002: Can steady Starmer fix broken British economy?

Ep 2001: Starmer’s victory - Warmth and respect restored to Anglo-Irish relations

Ep 2000: British election: Tories wiped out by Keir Starmer’s Labour Party and Nigel Farage’s Reform Party

Ep 1999: UEFA Euro 2024 - Spain a good team divided by bad politics

Ep 1998: United States Supreme Court rules Trump has 'absolute immunity' for official acts

Ep 1997: UEFA Euro 2024 - Didi Hamann looks ahead to the Quarter Finals

Ep 1996: French Parliamentary Election - France rejects Macron and moves sharply to the right

Ep 1995: Once the envy of the world, China’s economy weakens dramatically

Ep 1994: Joe Biden’s alarming performance debating Donald Trump raises questions about his fitness to run for the Presidency

Ep 1993: What public service does RTÉ render?

Ep 1992: UK General Election - Tories face wipeout as people question whether they can survive

Ep 1991: Divided and moving right can the EU remain a power in the modern world?

Ep 1990: Lagging Biden needs a result in next Thursday’s US Presidential debate

Ep 1989: Netanyahu disbands his war cabinet amid fears of second front against Hezbollah and Lebanon

Ep 1988: UK General Election - Farage targets the Tories with ambition to be PM in five years

Ep 1987: Paschal Donohoe - despite fears of far-right the centre can hold in Ireland and Europe

Ep 1986: Gifts received by the Justices reflect very badly on the US Supreme Court

Ep 1985: French Election - Macron gambles the house on shock election

Ep I984: European Election - Division in Europe likely to deepen as election results play out

Ep 1983: Sinn Féin electoral travails - people laughing not listening

Ep 1982: Russia Ukraine War - NATO calls Putin’s nuclear bluff

Ep 1981: US Presidential Election - Netanyahu continues to humiliate Biden; Trump continues to defy the stigma of felony

Ep 1980: Israel/Palestine - "the Two State Solution is dead, Israel killed it"

Ep 1979: UK General Election - Tories headed for electoral wilderness

Ep 1978: Anger and despair at the the West’s callous indifference to Palestinian suffering

Ep 1977: New York ‘Hush Money’ Trial - Donald Trump guilty on all 34 counts

Ep 1976: Biden’s presidency now in grave danger as Netanyahu ignores him

Ep 1975: Champions League Final - Brittle Real Madrid to find enough magic to win their 15th Final

Ep 1974: Local and European Elections - chance for Sinn Féin fight back against recent polls

Ep 1973: British General Election - As the Tories implode Keir Starmer moves cautiously forward

Ep 1972: US Presidential Election - as Biden flounders Trump promises an Imperial presidency

Ep 1971: Israel/Palestine - Israeli barbarism in Gaza leaves its supporters morally bankrupt

Ep 1970: America’s direction of economic travel bad news for Ireland and the European Union

Ep 1969: Premier League 23/24 - Manchester City worthy winners

Ep 1968: Fico assassination attempts reflects the deep left/right divisions within the EU

Ep 1967: US Presidential Election - Support for Netanyahu costing Joe Biden dearly at the polls

Ep 1966: Frank Connolly recalls the horror of the Dublin Monaghan Bombings 50 years ago

Ep 1965: RTÉ - Reports raise doubt that RTÉ, as it stands, is fit to be a Public Service Broadcaster

Ep 1964: Arsenal can still pip Man City for the Premier League title, says John Giles

Ep 1963: Startling Trump interview signals that democracy will lose if he wins

Ep 1962: Real Madrid - the beautiful game blighted shameful racism

Ep 1961: Insulting the Irish, the last cry of the drowning Tory Party

Ep 1960: Fear of Putin and a Trump presidency forcing Eastern European countries into a pre-war mindset

Ep 1959: Premier League review - John Giles still fancies Arsenal to win the title

Ep 1958: Tolerance for Netanyahu’s conduct in Gaza may cost Biden the presidency as student protests grow across America

Ep 1957: Global economics - citing “pre-war” necessity Western leaders ramp up defence spending

Ep 1956: $60 billion to save Ukraine - US Congress faces down Trump's hard right rump

Ep 1955: Manchester United - Ten Hag must go

Ep 1954: Global Warming - Sleepwalking to catastrophe as we witness the evidence all around us

Ep 1953: Justice at last for the Stardust victims and their families

Ep 1952: The spectre of violence looms as Trump and his followers take to the campaign trail

Ep 1951: The slow death of the Tory Party - Will Nigel Farage fill the gap?

Ep 1950: Israel ignores the warnings of its weak Western allies

Ep 1949: Premier League - Man City favourites now as Arsenal and Liverpool feel the heat

Ep 1948: Week 1 - TikTok Taoiseach Simon Harris snubs the Dåil to go direct to the people on social media

Ep 1947: Netanyahu actively provoking war with Iran to deepen the crisis and stay in office

Ep 1946: The surprise increase in inflation another threat to Biden's hopes of a return to the White House

Ep 1945: Foundation of the peace process strong enough to withstand the loss of Jeffrey Donaldson.

Ep 1836: Prof. Avi Shlaim on the Israeli / Palestinian Conflict - A Jewish voice on the history that has led to the present crisis

Ep 1944: Premier League Title Race: Liam Brady on Arsenal's improvement since Declan Rice joined

Ep 1943: After dithering for months Joe Biden finally calls for a ceasefire in Gaza

Ep 1942: The end of Thatcherism as British Tories look set to turn Boris’s 80 seat majority into a crushing defeat

Ep 1941: Benjamin Netanyahu - bent on destruction, hated at home, can Netanyahu be stopped by his allies or his enemies?

Ep 1940: Premier League - Liverpool slight favourite for the title, says John Giles

Ep 1939: As Europe and the US turn right politically why Ireland rejects extremism

Ep 1938: Biden Administration turns on Netanyahu as Israel becomes a significant election issue in the US

Ep 1937: Simple Simon will need new tricks when he occupies the Taoiseach’s office

Ep 1936: EU challenges - Trump's contempt for NATO poses big questions for Europe

Ep 1935: Trump’s deadliest legal threat - he must find $1/2 billion by Monday or risk losing his business empire

Ep 1934: Varadkar resignation - Leo gone, Simon Harris on the way...bad news all around

Ep 1933: US Economy - A Trump presidency could be bad news for the Irish economy

Ep 1932: FA Cup - Man U win over Liverpool proves football can be a crazy game

Ep 1931: Six Nations 2024 - Ireland erase Grand Slam disappointment with sixth Championship in sixteen years

Ep 1930: More woe for British Tories as they accept £15 million donation from a racist

Ep 1929: Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer’s attack on Netanyahu indicates that America’s patience with Israel is running out

Ep 1928: Putin’s War - A Trump presidency could herald the rise of the autocrat

Ep 1927: Six Nations 2024 - No Grand Slam for Ireland but the Championship is still a big prize

Ep 1926: Referendums 2024 - Resounding defeat for political establishment as the people say No

Ep 1925: Liam Brady joins Eamon and John to confirm that Arsenal are genuine Premier League contenders

Ep 1924: Israel/Hamas conflict - Ignoring the US Israel do it their way

Ep 1923: Joe Biden defies his critics with a powerful State of the Union Speech

Ep 1922: Six Nations 2024 - England must be respected at Twickenham but on known form Ireland should win

Ep 1921: RTÉ - Minister Martin shuffles the boardroom pack, will it make any difference?

Ep 1920: Tories lurch to the right as they face election humiliation

Ep 1919: Premier League review - Man City’s Phil Foden on the way to greatness

Ep 1918: US Supreme Court gives Trump’s Presidential campaign a major boost

Ep 1917: Kevin Bakhurst’s new broom is not working as RTÉ sheds ever more credibility

Ep 1916: Islamophobia, desperate Sunak Tories’ weapon of choice as they face election meltdown

Ep 1915: Six Nations - Ireland remains on course for the Grand Slam but two stern tests await

Ep 1914: Man United - If the new powers that be at Old Trafford do what they promise the club is doomed

Ep 1913: Global Crises - A World as dangerous as it's ever been

Ep 1912: Prospect of a Trump presidency and Putin victory in Ukraine causing serious concerns across the EU

Ep 1911: Biden’s increasing frailty and continuing support for Netanyahu suppressing his already weak poll numbers

Ep 1910: In an attempt to debate the Israel Hamas conflict House of Commons collapses into farce

Ep 1909: War in Ukraine - two years on from Putin’s invasion the winners and losers on the battlefield

Ep 1908: Greed and confusion reign as Saudi money seduces many of golf’s greatest players

Ep 1907: Premier League - In a three club title race Arsenal are convincing contenders

Ep 1906: Sex is more interesting than pensions, says Fintan O’Toole.. we talk to Chris Johns about pensions

Ep 1905: Trump’s legal woes afford Biden his best chance of staying in the White House

Ep 1904: RTÉ at the Oireachtas - shaming themselves and angering the public and its representatives

Ep 1903: Trump’s Russian policy - Putin gloats as Trump’s man, Tucker Carlson, grovels

Ep 1902: Arguably changed by serious injury the new, improved DeBruyne can lead Man City to the title

Ep 1901: Ireland excel as Six Nations rivals stall or go backwards

Ep 1900: Nationalist First Minister does not place us within “touching distance” of Irish unity

Ep 1899: A surreal and dangerous moment as Congress, afraid of Trump, ceases to function

Ep 1898: Time for RTÉ to finally come clean when they face the PAC on Valentine’s Day

Ep 1897: PopCon - Liz Truss enlists Nigel Farage in attempt to push the Tories further right

Ep 1896: John Giles wonders if Klopp’s flagged resignation will hurt Liverpool’s title challenge

Ep 1895: Ireland makes Six Nations history in Marseille with more to come

Ep 1894: Is the West losing moral authority by blindly supporting Israel’s oppression of the Palestinian people?

Ep 1893: History made as Sinn Féin’s Michelle O’Neill becomes First Minister in the Stormont Assembly

Ep 1892: Trump and GOP attack Taylor Swift though she has yet to endorse Joe Biden

Ep 1891: 2024 Six Nations - Ireland face a tough test in the first post-Sexton international

Ep 1890: Can the Public Accounts Committee bring arrogant or absent RTÉ bosses to account?

Ep 1889: Didi Hamann on Jürgen Klopp’s leaving of Liverpool

Ep 1888: Why democracy will be on the ballot for the US Presidential Election in November

Ep 1887: Biden v Trump - the Presidential election that could determine our future

Ep 1886: Soccer Super League will be back; without it Spanish and Italian football will die

Ep 1885: As their populism fails Britain’s Tories headed for oblivion

Ep 1884: Liverpool and Man City primed to battle for the Premier League title?

Repost: Lennon to Bowie, Bono to Dylan - BP Fallon on his life in rock n' roll

Repost: John Giles remembers Sir Bobby Charlton

Repost: Ballymurphy to Derry – Eamon McCann on Paras' Massacres

Repost: Empire of Pain - The Secret History of The Sackler Dynasty

Repost: Guide or Illusion - The Power of History

Repost: From Prison to Power - Danny Morrison on his and Sinn Féin’s Journey North and South

Repost: The Civil War that shaped our nation

Repost: Who Owns Ireland? How we became tenants in our own land and what we can do about it

Repost: Special - Liam Brady talks to Eamon about his adventurous life in football - Part 2

Repost: Avi Shlaim on the Israeli / Palestinian Conflict - A Jewish voice on the history that has led to the present crisis

Ep 1883: BP Fallon remembers Shane McGowan and Sinéad O’Connor, their lives and their work

Ep 1882: With the Premier League wide open Man City have a lot to do to retain the title

Ep 1881: Biden modifies his support for Israel as US public opinion turns against him

Ep 1880: Putin’s War - Ukraine’s fate will be decided in Washington

Ep 1879: Divided and facing electoral meltdown will the Tories turn to Boris and Farage for salvation?

Ep 1878: Liverpool and Man City to fight it out for Premier League title, Leeds to win promotion

Ep 1877: Economic problems and disappearing leaders cast a shadow over Xi Jinping’s China

Ep 1876: US Presidential election - if Trump wins everything changes

Ep 1875: Russia/Ukraine War - Dmitry Elovsky talks about being named in Putin’s list of foreign agents

Ep 1874: Israel in Palestine - This moment is a turning point in history

Ep 1873: Premier League - Ange Postecoglou, the real Special One, casts his spell on Spurs

Ep 1872: Election success of far-right pariah Geert Wilders stuns the Netherlands and Europe

Ep 1871: Unintended consequences of proposed Gambling Bill could be devastating for the Irish horse racing industry

Ep 1870: Threat to Trump as big money Republican donors switch to the more electable Nikki Haley

Ep 1869: Israel / Palestine war - Israel still a long way from achieving Netanyahu’s war aims

Ep 1868: Dublin Riot - open contempt for law and order nothing new in Dublin City Centre

Ep 1867: Man City and Liverpool favoured to fight the battle for the Premier League title

Ep 1866: Who Really Owns Ireland? How we became tenants in our own land - and what we can do about it?

Ep 1865: Israel/Palestine conflict - the West loses its moral authority

Ep 1864: Young Democrat voters abstaining may cost Biden the White House

Ep 1863: In this moment of geo-political crises the EU is unable to speak with one voice

Ep 1862: Britain’s Covid Inquiry reveals the cynicism and ignorance of Boris Johnson’s government

Ep 1861: Given the quality and inexperience of the players at his disposal, is it fair to pillory Stephen Kenny for our failure?

Ep 1860: Special - Liam Brady talks to Eamon about his adventurous life in football - Part 2

Ep 1858: Israel/Palestine War - great powers supporting Israel are undermining the prospect of a two state solution

Ep 1857: Unqualified support for Netanyahu begins to cost Biden in the polls, and Nikki Haley may pose a threat to Trump

Ep 1856: Bakhurst / RTÉ document raises more questions than it answers

Ep 1855: Chris Johns reports from London on PM Rishi Sunak's Cabinet reshuffle

Ep 1854: Much focus on the destruction of Gaza, much less on the militant settler killers on the West Bank

Ep 1853: The Biden Conundrum - deploring Putin’s war crimes while supporting Netanyahu’s ethnic cleansing

Ep 1852: No hope Tories drifting right and sinking

Ep 1851: After looking so composed Spurs implode in a week that VAR is further discredited

Ep 1859: Special - Liam Brady talks to Eamon about his adventurous life in football - Part 1

Ep 1850: Israel / Hamas War - The complicated military task facing heavily armed IDF

Ep 1849: Will Netanyahu become an albatross around Biden’s neck and see an end to his presidency?

Ep 1848: British Labour - Starmer treads carefully to shed remnants of past anti-semitism

Ep 1847: Manchester United - Under ten Hag’s reign everything that could go wrong has gone wrong

Ep 1846: Rugby World Cup - South Africa found a way to win again, Ireland can take much pride from their performance

Ep 1845: Biden’s unqualified support for Israel proves very costly at home and abroad

Ep 1844: Rugby World Cup final - South Africa gambles on the ‘bomb squad’ to take down All Blacks

Ep 1842: Israel / Palestine - a conflict from which the world may not recover

Ep 1843: John Giles remembers Sir Bobby Charlton

Ep 1841: Britain's Tory Government collapsing and new and dangerous threats to the world economy

Ep 1840: Hamas Attack - the bait that may lead to catastrophe if Israel bites

Ep 1839: Biden doubles down on his support for Israel, as polls show Israel supporting voters double down on their dislike for Biden

Ep 1838: Stephen Kenny did his best with the mess he inherited

Ep 1837: Von der Leyen’s Israel “gaffe” disturbs European leaders

Ep 1836: Avi Shlaim on the Israeli / Palestinian Conflict - A Jewish voice on the history that has led to the present crisis

Ep 1835: Rugby World Cup - Ireland a class act in victory and defeat

Ep 1834: RTÉ / PAC Hearing - disdainful RTÉ executives shames themselves before the people’s representatives

Ep 1833: Rugby World Cup - Ireland to beat New Zealand in the match of a lifetime

Ep 1832: America’s unequivocal support for Israel likely to be at the expense of Ukraine

Ep 1831: Netanyahu’s war on Gaza a welcome distraction while Putin aims his rockets on Ukraine

Ep 1830: Rugby World Cup - Farrell/Sexton bond a key factor in Ireland’s success

Ep 1829: Premier League - Man City a long way short of last season’s form

Ep 1828: Escalation of conflict in the Middle East poses grave dangers for the world

Ep 1827: Sam Bankman-Fried, the man who had and lost it all

Ep 1826: Far right bring down the House Speaker McCarthy and push the US closer to the edge

Ep 1825: Rugby World Cup - taking nothing for granted Ireland should beat Scotland on Saturday night

Ep 1824: Sweden takes a right wing turn driven by immigration

Ep 1823: As Europe expands so do its divisions

Ep 1821: The Manchester United mess down to the owners, the Glazers

Ep 1820: Another bad week as Tory Britain disintegrates in shame

Ep 1819: “Something Dangerous is Happening in America” - Joe Biden on the threat to US democracy

Ep 1818: Ryder Cup 2023 - Eamon Lynch on the unmatched theatre of the Ryder Cup

Ep 1817: Rugby World Cup - Inspired and resilient Ireland lay down a marker for their rivals

Ep 1816: Premier League - Hard to see any serious challenger to Man City

Ep 1815: Buoyed by the prospect of Government Keir Starmer broaches the Brexit question

Ep 1814: Zelensky receives lukewarm reception in divided Washington

Ep 1813: Rugby World Cup - South Africa v Ireland a fascinating battle between brain and brawn

Ep 1812: The ominous rise and fall of Bernard Looney

Ep 1811: Sexton the key to Ireland’s immaculate start to the Rugby World Cup

Ep 1810: The sane and the sad: Brighton teach Man Utd a lesson

Ep. I809: Biden being punished for reminding us of America at its best

Ep 1808: Can Government and the people save RTÉ from itself?

Ep 1807: US Presidential Election - Sky darkens over America

Ep 1806: Russia / Ukraine - A long war that Putin cannot afford to lose

Ep 1805: European Qualifiers - Stephen Kenny should get contract extension, says John Giles

Ep 1804: Rugby World Cup - Impressive French defeat of All Blacks puts pressure on Ireland and South Africa

Ep 1803: China’s ailing economy a problem for Xi Jinping and the world

Ep 1802: Nikki Haley the only GOP candidate who can win head-to-head against Biden, according to new poll

Ep 1801: Putin’s inner circle tightens as Ukraine makes significant battlefield progress

Ep 1800: Matt Williams previews the Rugby World Cup

Ep 1799: Man U -The Glazers have no interest in football they only care about money

Ep 1798: Tory shambles casts the North into the wilderness

Ep 1797: The Trump Cult: Reality tv star threatening Western democracy

Ep 1796: Winners and losers of the Electoral Commission boundary changes

Ep 1795: EU chief Charles Michel says EU enlargement project must be complete by 2030

Ep 1794: Premier League Review - Pochettino can sort out the Chelsea mess and make them challengers again

Ep 1793: Luis Rubiales and the 'kiss' - the sex scandal consuming Spain

Ep 1792: Ireland’s economy thrives while Britain languishes in Brexit misery

Ep 1791: Putin’s assassination of Prigozhin sends a message to others inclined to dissent

Ep 1790: Donald Trump tightens his grip on the Republican Party despite facing ninety-one charges

Ep 1789: War in Ukraine - Ukraine moral remains high despite doubts about EU’s commitment to their cause

Ep 1788: With the Foreign Minister disappeared and the economy in trouble Xi’s China could be more dangerous than ever

Ep 1787: As Manchester City set the standard their city rivals Manchester Utd start the season very badly

Ep 1786: Ukraine prepares for a long war

Ep 1785: Lack of competition enables Irish banks to take liberties with their customers

Ep 1784: Tubridy a symptom not the cause of RTE’s governance woes

Ep 1783: Facing four criminal indictments, Donald Trump remains a warm favourite with Republicans

Ep 1782: War in Ukraine - Putin prepared for long war and hopes to see Trump back in the White House

Ep 1781: Prigozhin appears alive and well after speculation that Putin had disappeared him

Ep 1780: Tories turning further right and going further down

Ep 1779: Third party candidates could hurt Biden and hand the White House to Trump

Ep 1778: Prudence and the lessons of recent history will dictate the government’s approach to the October budget

Ep 1777: Irish Economy doing so much better than British but tough choices still face Minister for Finance

Ep 1776: As RTÉ / Tubridy scandal deepens a solution is difficult to see

Ep 1775: RTÉ Scandal - Tubridy / Kelly account fails to convince

Ep 1774: Putin and “traitor” Prigozhin make peace as observers speculate on Putin’s grip on power

Ep 1773: Can frail, gaff prone Biden fight off the ugly Republican challenge for the White House?

Ep 1772: Prigozhin’s return to Russia bodes ill for Putin

Ep 1771: RTÉ Scandal - Kelly and Tubridy request for private hearing must be denied, they are answerable to the people

Ep 1770: England’s water chaos underlines the importance of Ireland’s victory in the Irish Water protests

Ep 1769: Has the US got a credible candidate for President in 2024?

Ep 1768: Nahel Merzouk - Anger and despair spark ugly protests in France

Ep 1767: RTÉ Scandal - crisis deepens as revelations take a dark turn

Ep 1766: The case for positive Neutrality

Ep 1765: RTE Scandal - Ministers Martin and An Taoiseach running low on credibility with the public and RTE staff

Ep 1764: Prigozhin Mutiny - the beginning of the end for Putin

Ep 1763: RTE scandal - who negotiated the deal that has shamed RTE?

Ep 1762: US Secretary of State Anthony Blinken visits Beijing as US and China seek rapprochement

Ep 1761: German sentiment turns towards far right AfD, not yet a worry but a sign of things to come?

Ep 1760: Grubby little stroke that may herald the end of RTÉ’s era

Ep 1759: British economy sinking as Tory government continues to flounder

Ep 1758: Michael D. Higgins comments on neutrality - pub talk or statesmanship?

Ep 1757: Euro 2024 Qualifiers - Stephen should stick to his guns

Ep 1756: Stephen Kenny, Liam Brady, Gordon McQueen

Repost: Christy Dignam - Farewell to a rare, inspiring Dublin man

Ep 1755: Boris Johnson - Brexit made him, he destroyed himself, his party and his country

Ep 1754: Facing multiple criminal charges many believe that Donald Trump is heading for the White House or the jail house

Ep 1753: A flawed hero, the story of ‘Pep’

Ep 1752: The end of Boris .. or the beginning of the end for the party that adored him

Ep 1751: War in Ukraine - Ukraine makes small but significant victories as summer offensive begins

Ep 1750: Champions League Final - Large cloud over over Man City’s Treble victory

Ep 1749: Fiscal Advisory Council takes direct aim at Taoiseach Leo Varadkar

Ep 1748: Donald Trump becomes first former US President to face criminal charges

Ep 1747: China declares war on stand up comedians

Ep 1746: PGA Saudi deal - the saddest day in pro golf

Ep 1745: Putin’s War - Ukraine has four months to achieve victory on the battlefield

Ep 1744: Joe Biden has united NATO and Europe, a Trump presidency could be fatally different

Ep 1743: FA Cup Final review and a good season for Man Utd but Ten Hag needs support to take them further

Ep 1742: Is the future for the US Republican as fears grow for Biden’s health and no obvious Democrat successor emerges?

Ep 1741: The Civil War that shaped our nation

Ep 1740: Summer Offensive - Morale high as Ukraine faces moment of truth

Ep 1739: Opening shot in budget war - Varadker puts pressure on Finance Minister Michael McGrath

Ep 1738: Premier League - Team of the Year, Player of the Year and Coach of the Year

Ep 1737: US Presidential Election - Ron DeSantis stumbles into race to pose a real threat to Donald Trump and Joe Biden

Ep 1736: Vinicius Junior, age 22, the latest victim of Spanish racism

Ep 1735 - Tories still believe in Boris, the spiv that won’t go away

Ep 1734: Can Ukraine and the West survive a Republican return to the White House next year?

Ep 1733: Despite defeat women’s boxing pioneer Katie Taylor has nothing left to prove

Ep 1732: Stalemate in the North suggests it may be time to review the Good Friday Agreement

Ep 1731: Man City - outstanding but not the greatest ever

Ep 1730: Alt-right launch a bid to takeover Britain’s Tory Party…led by Boris Johnson?

Ep 1729: Corrupt and broke Real Madrid and Barca unable to compete with Abu Dhabi-backed Man City

Ep 1728: Buoyed by Western support and weapons, Ukraine’s morale contrasts with Putin’s bickering inner circle

Ep 1727: Looming US Debt Ceiling crisis an opportunity for rogue Republicans

Ep 1726: In the absence of battlefield success fragile unity among Putin and his cronies may cause his downfall

Ep 1725: Manchester City - In a League of their own

Ep 1724: Unrepentant Trump bounces back as Biden’s numbers fall

Ep 1723: Facing China’s growing strength and potential US isolationism Europe looks weak and divided

Ep 1722: The contrast between King Charles III and the Tory Government - a monarchist’s view

Ep 1721: Climate catastrophe closer than we think

Ep 1720: Tory Britain - a country and party in decline

Ep 1719: Premier League - everything still to play for in the best league in the world

Ep 1718: Despite serious trouble with the law Donald Trump is back at the top of the Republican Party

Ep 1717: A Republican view of King Charles and Queen Camilla’s Coronation

Ep 1716: Putin’s War - Spring/Summer offensive, the moment of truth for Ukraine

Ep 1715: Failed American banks could threaten the world’s financial stability

Ep 1714: Premier League - Leeds Utd decline looks terminal, Man City look sure to take the title

Ep 1713: The question of EU membership for Ukraine will test European unity

Ep 1712: Joe Biden to run again for the White House but age a serious issue for voters

Ep 1711: Brexit slowly eroding Britain’s morale

Ep 1710: Justice at last for the Stardust families?

Ep 1709: No end in sight to Putin’s War In Ukraine

Ep 1708: Russia immune to Western sanctions with the help of their friends

Ep 1707: Premier League - Man City look too strong for Arsenal

Ep 1706: Murdoch and Fox News pose a deadly threat to US democracy

Ep 1705: Dominic Raab's resignation and the spectacular disintegration of the once great Tory party

Ep 1704: It’s Robert Watt again!

Ep 1703: Gerry Hutch found not guilty - the judges led by Tara Burns save the Special Criminal Court

Ep 1702: Artificial Intelligence changing everything sooner than we thought

Ep 1701: Premier League - Man City favourites to win as inexperience costs Arsenal

Ep 1700: Joe Biden’s dismissal of Rishi Sunak reflects the death of US British special Relationship

Ep 1699: The personal trumps the political - no electoral gain for Joe Biden as he visits his ancestral home

Ep 1698: Dominance before peace - tensions rise as Chinese aggression towards Taiwan deepens forcing US to make hard choices

Ep 1697: The Good Friday Agreement saved lives but political normality has not been established in the North

Ep 1696: Putin must win his war or answer to his enemies within

Ep 1695: Premier League title will be decided when Arsenal meets Man City on April 26th

Ep 1694: Global Economy- IMF predicts rocky road ahead

Ep 1693: Denied justice for over 20 years Women of Honour’s stories must be listened to now

Ep 1692: Trump in the Dock

Ep 1691: The Price of Peace - Bertie Ahern on the Good Friday Agreement

Ep 1690: Irish Economy - 60% of Irish restaurants fear closure

Ep 1689: Fear and greed gripping owners in the Premier League

Ep 1688: Sunak makes progress but the DUP still resisting his advances

Ep 1687: Indictment in New York the least of Donald Trump’s legal worries

Ep 1686: Can NATO and European solidarity be sustained if Putin wages a long war?

Ep 1685: Windsor Framewok - EU will extract a big price if Rishi Sunak fails to deal with DUP intransigence

Ep 1684: UEFA Euro 2024 - Stephen Kenny is on the right track, the debate is over

Ep 1683: Housing crisis - eviction a brutal and flawed response

Ep 1682: France on Fire

Ep 1681: Financial Crisis - Are we revisiting 2008?

Ep 1680: With Trump and DeSantis on the Presidential horizon how long can we depend on the US to defend the West

Ep 1679: Great leaders on and off the pitch have taken Ireland to top of the rugby world

Ep 1678: As sanctions fail to bite so far Putin retains the support of the Russian people

Ep 1677: Xi and Putin test the West’s resolve in Ukraine but Taiwan top of China’s agenda

Ep 1676: Banking crisis - no time for complacency

Ep 1675: Haaland - a goal scoring genius we’ve never seen before

Ep 1674: Ireland’s empathy for immigrants rooted in our past but times and attitudes can change

Ep 1673: How Denis O’Brien lost control of Digicel

Ep 1672: Putin's War - Superior battlefield tactics plus newly acquired tanks give Ukraine a critical advantage in the coming months

Ep 1671: Brexit and sleaze Boris Johnson’s legacy but some Tories still want him back

Ep 1670: Putin’s War - Peace talks or escalation the only likely options

Ep 1669: Manchester United hype exposed by Liverpool’s class and passion

Ep 1668: Rupert Murdoch’s astonishing defence of Fox News' lies

Ep 1667: The general welcome for the Windsor Framework leaves Donaldson with a tough decision to make

Ep 1666: Last chance for Brexit resolution depends on DUP

Ep 1665: French President Emmanuel Macron argues that peace in Ukraine does not require an end to Putin in power

Ep 1664: Weekend soccer - Manchester United becoming a force to be reckoned with

Ep 1663: Boris - Money in his pocket blood on his hands

Ep 1662: War in Ukraine-Joe Biden’s commitment to Ukraine not matched universally in the US

Ep 1661: A Russian perspective - No end to Putin’s War while he remains in place

Ep 1660: China’s support critical for Putin’s brutal war

Ep 1659: Will Sunak face down the DUP and his backbench Brexit hardliners

Ep 1658: Racism and corruption at the heart of crisis in Spanish soccer

Ep 1657: Premier League - Arsenal bounce back, Man U now real contenders, Leeds in big trouble

Ep 1656: Northern Ireland Protocol is Sunak’s biggest test

Ep 1655: Nikki Haley - first of many out of the gates to challenge Trump for Republican nomination

Repost: Liam Brady - Italian football in its golden era

Ep 1654: Could Putin / Ukraine conflict go nuclear?

Ep 1653: Although Man City and Arsenal are favourites for the title Manchester United is still in with a chance

Ep 1652: DUP disgraces itself again

Ep 1651: Six Nations - Superb Ireland send warning to World Cup rivals

Ep 1650: Sweden leads the way as Scandinavian politics take a right turn

Ep 1649: Slow but steely, Biden remains Democrats' best hope

Ep 1648: England today - Rishi Sunak, a weak Prime Minister, corralled by English Nationalists

Ep 1647: Liberal democracy fighting for survival in a dangerously changing world

Ep 1646: Celebrating Harry Kane, remembering the Munich Air Crash

Ep 1645: Frail though he is Joe Biden is likely to run for President in 2024

Ep 1644: Why Putin and his cronies are unlikely to trigger the nuclear option

Ep 1643: UK - high inflation, low growth, hundreds of thousands in nationwide protests and Tory sleaze and incompetence

Ep 1642: Death doesn't answer the question of whether Peter Pringle was the third man

Ep 1641: From actor to national leader Volodymyr Zelenskyy’s inspiring journey

Ep 1640: US General predicts US China conflict in 2025

Ep 1639: Joe Biden continues to be stronger than he looks

Ep 1638: Gerry Hutch Trial - a dramatic end to a dramatic trial

Ep 1637: Putin's War - the arrival of European and US tanks can be a game changer in Ukraine

Ep 1636: Weak Sunak and rampant sleaze undermine Tory’s attempt to govern

Ep 1635: The Paschal Donohoe Affair

Ep 1634: Premier League Review - Arsenal looks the real deal

Ep 1633: Elon Musk's Twitter debt causing trouble at Tesla

Ep 1632: The West divided as Germany refuses to support Ukraine with tanks

Ep 1631: The Hunter Biden story and the implications for Joe Biden’s administration

Ep 1630: Hutch trial moves towards its conclusion - closing arguments likely to be challenging to Prosecution

Ep 1629: No quick end to Putin’s War

Ep 1628: Classified documents discovery undermines Biden's growing credibility

Ep 1627: Premier League Review - Liam Brady says Arsenal can win the League

Ep 1626: Cyber crime - how you can protect yourself and your business

Ep 1625: No love for Harry in a nation struggling under desperate Tories

Ep 1624: As the world watches Putin’s War no one is focussed more keenly than China and Taiwan

Ep 1623: Ukraine morale strengthening despite Putin’s barbaric attacks on its people

Ep 1622: Europe’s unity being tested by Putin’s War

Ep 1621: Bad news for the Biden administration as Republican extremists take power on the Hill

Ep 1620: Sláinte Care is Dead

Ep 1619: Lightweight Rishi beware as Boris on manoeuvres

Ep 1618: Chaos in Congress may reflect Donald Trump’s waning influence on Republicans

Ep 1617: Putin’s War - Putin’s miscalculations may cost Russia dearly

Ep 1616: Premier League review and memories of Pelé

REPOST: Mikhail Gorbachev's Heroic Failure to Save The Soviet Union

REPOST: Ted Walsh Remembers Lester Piggott

REPOST: Julian Assange - Telling The Ugly Truth And Now Facing Life in Prison

REPOST: Climate Emergency - Fiddling While Our World Burns

REPOST: Robert Harris on his new book Act of Oblivion

Ep 1615: World Cup players return to the Premier League as FIFA declares war on players and clubs

Ep 1614: United Nation - Still someway to go to unite Ireland

Ep 1613: FIFA World 2022 - In a great Final Lionel Messi gets the reward he deserves

Ep 1612: Trial of Gerry (’the Monk’) Hutch - Dramatic cross-examination of key witness Jonathan Dowdall enters second week

Ep 1611: Republican controlled Congress to target Hunter Biden

Ep 1610: Tories fail to govern while Britain paralysed by strikes

Ep 1609: FIFA World Cup 2022 Final Preview - too close to call but our souls hope for Messi

Ep 1608: Failure of Zero Covid policy raises questions about China’s leader, Xi Jinping

Ep 1607: The Rise and fall of Sean Quinn by the journalist who knows him

Ep 1606: Putin’s great gamble may end sooner rather than later

Ep 1605: Superb Croatia and Morocco ensure World Cup semi-finals can go either way

Ep 1604: Democrats take the Senate, Trump takes a hit

Ep 1603: Hutch Murder Trial - Court allows surveillance evidence despite it being gathered illegally

Ep 1602: FIFA World Cup 2022 - A glorious World Cup that may get even better

Ep 1601: Putin’s War - Cap on oil prices unlikely to trouble Putin

Ep 1600: Irish Times United Ireland Poll - Rishi Sunak must confront right wing Tories to make progress on the Irish question

Ep 1599: FIFA World Cup 2022 - Great tournament with serious tests to come for nations big and small

Ep 1598: More bad news for Donald Trump as the law begins to win some important arguments

Ep 1597: FIFA World Cup 2022 - Football triumphs despite FIFA and Qatar

Ep 1596: China Protests - Zero Covid crisis poses a threat to Xi Jinping

Ep 1595: Putin’s War - With its history of resilience Ukraine will persevere until Putin is defeated

Ep 1594: FIFA World Cup 2022 - One of the best World Cups ever

Ep 1593: The Trial of Gerry Hutch - a critical case for the Special Criminal Court

Ep 1592: The Donald under pressure but may burn the Republican House down on the way out

Ep 1591: World Cup 2022 illustrates what a great game Soccer is .. and England might win

Ep 1590: The Ugliest World Cup in History

Ep 1589: As Leo Varadkar prepares to be Taoiseach Fianna Fáil have no obvious successor to Micheál Martin

Ep 1588: Brexit crazed Tories may destroy their country and their party… and damage Ireland too

Ep 1587: Putin comes under pressure as his war aims palpably fail

Ep 1586: World Cup 2022 - Spain can contend but a divided nation will not unite behind them

Ep 1585: Murdoch press puts The Donald on the back foot

Ep 1584: World Cup 2022 Preview

Ep 1583: Hutch trial - Garda destroyed records without consultation

Ep 1582: Colm Tóibín: A Guest at the Feast

Ep 1581: Selfish and disloyal, Cristiano Ronaldo way out of order

Ep 1580: While Exchequer finance is still buoyant tech decline remains a threat for Ireland

Ep 1579: Brexit legacy - will Tory Party hardliners prevent Rishi Sunak delivering a NI Protocol deal?

Ep 1578: Will the midterm elections be the beginning of the end for Donald Trump?

Ep 1577: Global warming - On the road to climate hell

Ep 1576: Putin's War - Ukraine fears that Republican support may wither if they win the midterms

Ep 1575: Cop 27 - Climate change, the clock is ticking

Ep 1574: Liverpool and Arsenal enjoy wins against top four rivals and Villa exposes Man U frailty

Ep 1573: UK Economy - No way out for weak Tory government

Ep 1572: Democracy on thin ice as Americans vote in the Midterm Elections

Ep 1571: Drama yet to come as ‘The Monk’ stands trial at the Special Criminal Court

Ep 1570: UK and EU to do business on the NI Protocol sooner rather than later

Ep 1569: War in Ukraine - Ukraine winning in battlefield but desperate Putin dangerous

Ep 1568: Premier League - Liverpool no longer hungry, Man U improving, and Arsenal building with promising young players

Ep 1567: Without transparency and accountability can we trust An Bord Pleanála? Where’s Minister O’Brien when we need him?

Ep 1566: As the Tories stagger on Rishi Sunak misleads the House during his first outing at the Dispatch Box as PM

Ep 1565: Glory for Irish Women’s sport but financial support badly needed

Ep 1564: Xi Jinping - all powerful for now but China’s problems are unresolved

Ep 1563: Putin’s War - Speculation of dirty bomb may reflect Putin’s growing desperation

Ep 1562: Prime Minister Sunak faces daunting challenges, the NI Protocol being one of the toughest

Ep 1561: Premier League - Mid-season Qatar World Cup is crazy for European players and fans

Ep 1560: Putin not without allies in his war against the West

Ep 1559: Tory pantomime continues - Liz Truss out, Boris back in?

Ep 1558: Xi Jinping Set to be President for life at the Chinese Communist Party Congress

Ep 1557: With his ground forces in retreat Putin turns to General Armageddon, the man who levelled Aleppo and Grozny

Ep 1556: Truss to be gone in weeks if not days then Britain must find its better self

Ep 1555: Liverpool’s victory over Man City prevents the Premier League becoming a one horse race

Ep 1554: After one month as Prime Minister Liz Truss faces losing the job

Ep 1553: Barca Fight Their Way Back From the Brink of Bankruptcy

Ep 1552: Chairman Xi - More Powerful than Mao?

Ep 1551: Market Analyst Paul Sommerville on the Causes and Effects of the Crises in Global Economies

Ep 1550: Desperate Putin appoints General Armageddon (Sergei Surovikin)

Ep 1549: Is the under-pressure British Government set to do business with the EU?

Ep 1548: Premier League Review and Euro 24 - Ireland’s Horror Draw

Ep 1547: Weak and discredited at home, is the Truss government speaking peace with the EU?

Ep 1546: US Democracy under serious threat if Trumpism gains ground in the Midterm Elections

Ep 1545: Battleground reverses make Putin more likely to use nuclear weapons

Ep 1544: Ex-Sinn Féin Councillor Jonathan Dowdall To Enter the State’s Witness Protection Programme Delaying the Hutch Trial

Ep 1543: Putin Looks Increasingly Desperate - With Nowhere Else to Go This Makes Him Very Dangerous

Ep 1542: Ireland In Far Better Shape than Britain With Long Winter Ahead

Ep 1541: Erling Haaland A Great Player Who Can Take Manchester City All the Way in the Champions League

Ep 1540: Guide or Illusion - The Power of History

Ep 1539: Corporation Tax Bonanza Buys the FF/FG/Green Coalition Some Time

Ep 1538: Labour takes 33% You Gov Lead As a Result of Truss-Kwarteng Debacle

Ep 1537: Liz Truss’s Economic Gamble Fails While Ireland Produces Smart, Rational Budget

Ep 1536: Euro Campaign Will Settle Stephen Kenny’s Future

Ep 1535: Putin’s War - Putin’s Escalation Presents Trouble in the Home Front

Ep 1534: Italian Election Returns the Country’s First Female Leader As Europe’s Right Wing Gains Expand

Ep 1533: Ireland International Soccer - Stephen Kenny’s Ireland Progressing Game By Game

Ep 1532: Putin’s War - High Morale And Battlefield Cunning The Key to Ukraine’s Success

Ep 1531: Italy set to turn right at Sunday’s General Election

Ep 1530: UK Mini Budget - Britain's Biggest Gamble

Ep 1529: Bad Week for Putin and Trump As President Biden Looks Assured in the Face of Russian Threat

Ep 1528: War in Ukraine - Under Pressure Putin Responds to Hardline Russian Critics

Ep 1527: Dark Days For Sweden As Far Right Party Is in Line for Government

Ep 1526: Premier League Review and the Reckless Sacking of Thomas Tuchel

Ep 1525: Liz Truss’s Policies Will Damage Britain and May Cast the Tories Into Opposition

Ep 1524: Trump Plays the System, Republicans Putting US Democracy on the Brink - Bad News For The West

Ep 1523: Complacency As Much A Cause of Energy Crisis as Putin's War

Ep 1522: As Dubai Shuts the Door Kinahans Running Out of Places to Hide

Ep 1521: Duration of Putin’s War The Governing Factor in Our Economic Crisis

Ep 1520: War in Ukraine - Fears That Humbled Putin May Resort to the Nuclear Option

Ep 1519: Putin’s Domestic Critics Go Public As Some of His Soldiers Give Up the Fight

Ep 1518: Robert Harris on his new book Act of Oblivion

Ep 1517: Serial Conman Trump Plays For Time in the American Courts

Ep 1516: No "Handouts" Truss Offers The Biggest Handout in British History

Ep 1515: China / Russia Alliance Testing The West’s Resolve

Ep 1514: Long Covid Is a Chronic Illness - Why Is It Being Ignored In Ireland?

Ep 1513: Premier League Review - No Agreement on VAR

Ep 1512: Mikhail Gorbachev's Heroic Failure to Save The Soviet Union

Ep 1511: Joe Biden Takes the Gloves Off To Warn America Of The Republican Threat

Ep 1510: With Liz Truss Poised to Enter Downing Street, is Britain Bent on Self-Destruction?

Ep 1509: As Micháel Martin Approaches the End of His Term as Taoiseach Tough Decisions Face FF/FG Coalition

Ep 1508: Kherson: Ukraine Gaining the Upper Hand On the Frontline

Ep 1507: Richard Corrigan on Food, Brexit and Other Things

Ep 1506: Haaland Can Drive Man City to New Heights

Ep 1505: World's Economy Drifts Into Unchartered Waters

Ep 1504: Trump In Deeper Trouble Than Ever Before

Ep 1503: An Bord Pleanála Struggles To Restore It’s Credibility

Ep 1502: The War in Ukraine - A Russian Voice

Ep 1501: Manchester Utd v Liverpool Review

Ep 1500: Michael Collins - The Man and The Myth

Ep 1499: ‘Pep’s’ City Not Unbeatable But Haaland The Real Deal .. Chelsea Get A Hiding at Elland Road

Ep 1498: War in Ukraine - A Long War Will be a Test of Resilience for Russia and the West

Ep 1497: As Grave Dangers Abound, No Sign of Peace in Ukraine

Ep 1496: Beyond Surreal, Beyond Bizarre, Britain Keeps Blundering On

Ep 1495: Ukraine War Will Pose a Serious Threat to Europe This Autumn and Winter

Ep 1494: Taiwan Calm In the Face of Chinese Aggression

Ep 1493: Can American Democracy Survive If Played by Trump’s Rules?

Ep 1492: Manchester United - Digging Their Own Grave and No Signs of Stopping

Ep 1491: Premier League Title - Too Early to Call Despite Man City’s Impressive Start

Repost: Ballymurphy to Derry – Eamonn McCann on the Paras' Massacres

Repost: The Irish Civil War - Between Two Hells

Repost: Ronnie Whelan on Liverpool's Greatest Manager and his Difficult Relationship with Big Jack

Repost: Gabriel Byrne - Walking With Ghosts

Repost: The Running Book by John Connell

Repost: Cop26 - Glasgow Summit Hints At Hope But No Promise

Repost: Graeme Souness Looks Back on his Illustrious Playing and Managing Career

Ep 1490: Elvis - The Fact and the Fiction

Repost: Maradona - "Maybe the Greatest of Them All"

Repost: The Murder of Mr Moonlight

Repost: Liam Brady - Italian Football in its Golden Era

Special Episode - Eamon Meets Four Sporting Greats at the Ultimate Now Sports Quiz

Ep 1489: Truss-Sunak Leadership Contest - Tory Government Lurches to the Right

Ep 1488: Climate Emergency - Fiddling While Our World Burns

Ep 1487: Strong Hints That Donald Trump Will Run For President in 2024

Ep 1486: Tories Choose The Next Prime Minister From a Field on Non-Entities

Ep 1485: Pursuit of the Kinahan Cartel Will Be “relentless and for years”, says Garda Commissioner

Ep 1484: Euro 2022 - Hosts England Make Spectacular Start

Ep 1483: The Many Dangers of a Long War in Ukraine

Ep 1482: No Immediate Danger to Government from Sinn Fein No Confidence Motion But Trouble Down the Line

Ep 1481: The Terrible Choices Tories Face As They Search For a New Leader

Ep 1480: Restless Democrats Openly Doubting Joe Biden

Ep 1479: Boris Johnson Resigns - Can Britain Recover?

Ep 1478: Covid-19 - Here To Stay, Caution Still Required

Ep 1477: While Boris Johnson Survives the British Government Crumbles

Ep 1476: Sophie Toscan du Plantier - Cold Case Review of West Cork Murder

Ep 1475: UEFA Euro 2022: Women’s Football Gaining Ever More Credibility And Respect

Ep 1474: Brexit - Boris’s Blundering May Trigger A Trade War Nobody Wants

Ep 1473: War in Ukraine Won’t End Until Putin Goes

Ep 1472: American Democracy’s Struggle Against Fanatics In High Places

Ep 1471: US Sanctions A Game Changer for the Kinahan Cartel

Ep 1470: John Delaney’s Fight With the ODCE Goes to Extra Time

Ep 1469: US Supreme Court Reverses Roe v Wade Judgement

Ep 1468: British Voters Turn On Boris - Will The Tories Follow?

Ep 1467: Northern Protocol - British Ignorance A Mortal Threat To Business North and South

Ep 1466: Cost of Living Crisis - No Way Back To Normal Anytime Soon

Ep 1465: Terminal Setback for Macron as Left and Right Converge to Deny Him Parliamentary Majority

Ep 1464: Julian Assange - Telling The Ugly Truth And Now Facing Life in Prison

Ep 1463: China Increases Pressure on Taiwan as Biden Makes America’s Commitment Explicit

Ep 1462: No Good News for Biden as Interest Rates Rise and Jan 6th Revelations Fail to Gain Traction

Ep 1461: Comedy Or Tragedy - Will Johnson’s Government Run out of People to Fight!

Ep 1460: Ireland Needs A Settled Team Before European Qualifiers

Ep 1459: Constitutional Referendum Required to Erase Ireland’s Housing Crisis

Ep 1458: No End in Sight for the Long Attritional War In Ukraine

Ep 1457: Boris’s New Bill May Give DUP More Than They Can Deal With

Ep 1456: Ukraine’s Second City Kharkiv Holds Firm Against Russians

Ep 1455: January 6th Hearings - No Healing of Wounds in Trump Nation

Ep 1454: An Bord Pleanála- Serious Questions Being Asked

Ep 1453: Johnson Won’t Change, He’ll Be Gone Before Christmas

Ep 1452: Boris Johnson - Damaged But Not Fatally Damaged

Ep 1451: The Partisan Poison Threatening US Democracy

Ep 1450: Boris and His Wife Carrie Booed and Mocked At Jubilee Celebrations, The End of the Road For Johnson?

Ep 1449: Ukraine Needs West’s Weapons to Combat Russian Offensive

Ep 1448: Kinahan Cartel - Under Pressure But Still in Business

Ep 1447: Sinn Féin Tops the Poll But Will Need a Willing Partner To Govern

Ep 1446: A Future Europe Vulnerable Without Weapons And Unity

Ep 1445: Ted Walsh Remembers Lester Piggott

Ep 1444: Champions League Final Review - Liverpool Have Questions to Answer

Ep 1443: Covid-19 - Reflections on a Pandemic

Ep 1442: Mass Shooting of Children in Texas Won't Change American Gun Law

Ep 1441: Champions League Preview - No Surprise if Real Are Champions Again

Ep 1440: Sue Gray Report - Boris Survives To Lie Another Day

Ep 1439: Ukraine War - Putin’s Gangster Mentality Stiffens Ukraine’s Resolve

Ep 1438: I’m A Patriot, I Love My Country But I Won’t Go Back While Putin’s in Power

Ep 1437: Liam Brady - ‘Pep’s’ Man City Deserve Their Premier League Success

Ep 1436: Hunger Will Be A Feature of the Global Economic Crisis

Ep 1435: John Giles Agrees with ‘Pep’ - the Premier League is More Impressive Than The Champions League

Ep 1434: Global Economy- Unprecedented And Frightening After Brexit, Covid and War

Ep 1433: Boris’s Tory Government - Incompetent, Dishonest, Out of Friends and Ideas

Ep 1432: The American Dream Risks Becoming a Nightmare

Ep 1431: Fear the Driver As Sweden Drops 200 Years of Neutrality To Join NATO

Ep 1430: From Prison to Power - Danny Morrison on his and Sinn Féin’s Journey North and South

Ep 1429: After Many Years of Turning A Blind Eye To Londongrad Boris Seeks Redemption in Ukraine

Ep 1428: Premier League - Much To Be Decided In the Final Week

Ep 1427: US Anger At Britain’s Protocol Games

Ep 1426: Boris Johnson - Making It Up As He Goes Along … And Then Changing It

Ep 1425: With Intense Negotiations By All Parties NI Protocol Issues Can Be Resolved

Ep 1424: War in Ukraine - Putin’s Battlefield Failures Make Him Dangerous

Ep 1423: Sinn Féin Tops Assembly Poll But No Real Change Expected

Ep 1422: Premier League - Man United’s Latest Shame

Ep 1421: Sweden Set to Abandon Neutrality and Join NATO

Ep 1420: Leaked Supreme Court Opinion Reflects Growing Polarisation

Ep 1419: No Quick Fix For Economic Woes but Ireland Better Placed Than Most

Ep 1418: Almost Mystical , Real’s Triumph in the Bernabéu

Ep 1417: China’s Zero Covid Crisis Threatens Social Stability And Economy

Ep 1416: Ukraine's Morale Boosted By Growing Western Support

Ep 1415: Premier League Review - Leeds in Trouble And Roy Keane’s Remarkable Snub to Paul Scholes

Ep 1414: Katie Taylor - The History Maker Triumphs Again

Ep 1413: West Awakes And Unites to Fight Putin’s Russia

Ep 1412: Is Dubai The Kinahans’ Last Stand?

Ep 1411: Champions League Semi-Finals Review

Ep 1410: Elon Musk Buys Twitter - Is Now The Time To Regulate The World’s Largest Public Square?

Ep 1409: War in Ukraine - Unpredictable Putin Must Be Stopped As We Reach a very Dangerous Moment

Ep 1408: Pride, Determination and Fear As Ukraine Resists The Savage Russian Assault

Ep 1407: Man United Owners The Biggest Obstacle To New Coach’s Success

Ep 1406: French Election - Relief in Europe As Macron Wins But Troubling Trends Emerge

Ep 1405: Why Ireland Should Stay Neutral and Europe Should Resist NATO's Embrace

Ep 1404: World Economy Faces Into a Perfect Storm And It's Frightening

Ep 1403: Europe Holds Its Breath Lest France Elect Marine LePen

Repost: Clare Daly On Why She Seeks Her Future in Europe

Ep 1402: As America Looks Inwards Biden and Democrats Face ‘Biblical Disaster’ In Midterms

Ep 1401: Boris Trumps Britain

Ep 1400: End Game For Kinahan Cartel

Ep 1399: Can The West Pay the Price To Cripple Putin’s Economy?

Ep 1398: Who Is Robert Watt And Why Is Everyone Talking About Him?

Ep 1397: Man City Liverpool - A Thriller But Not In A Good Way

Ep 1396: High Inflation And Rising Interest Rates Here for the Long Term

Ep 1395: Biden’s Robust Support for NATO And Ukraine Yields No Political Dividend At Home

Ep 1394: Putin Has Failed, That Makes Him Very Dangerous

Ep 1393: Journalist and Film Maker Johnny O’Reilly Bears Witness to Putin’s Crimes

Ep 1392: Dublin Airport - Exploitation, Opportunism, Greed and Danger

Ep 1391: A Young Russian Voice Denounces Putin’s War

Ep 1390: All to Play For In The Best Premier League Ever

Ep 1389: Global Financial Crisis - Stagflation and Recession Looming

Ep 1388: Irish Rugby’s Booze Problem

Ep 1387: Government’s Covid Complacency is Dangerous

Ep 1386: Proof That America Closer To the Edge of Madness Than We Think

Ep 1385: How One Man Inspired a Nation - Zelensky’s Approval Ratings Soar from 20 to 90 Per Cent

Ep 1384: War in Ukraine- Putin’s War Crimes Force The West To Prepare For A New World Order

Ep 1383: Stephen Kenny Loves Football And Is On The Right Track

Ep 1382: Spanish Football - Barca’s Spectacular Revival

Ep 1381: Biden - Leading the West But No Dividend At Home

Ep 1380: No End In Sight For the Victims of Putin’s Apocalypse

Ep 1379: Covid-19 - The Virus is Back and We Need to Wake Up

Ep 1378: Beijing Oppression Drives a Generation of Young People To Leave Hong Kong

Ep 1377: Putin’s Miscalculation Has Taken Us All To A Dangerous Place

Ep 1376: No Escape From The Crippling Costs of War, Brexit and Covid

Ep 1375: Soccer Review - Flying At the Moment Liverpool Could Win It All

Ep 1346: Brexit - As Britain’s Economy Falters Who benefits?

Ep 1374: European Central Bank Must Not Panic As World Economy Enters Unchartered Waters

Ep 1373: As Zelensky Unites His People in Defiance, Time is Increasingly Putin's Enemy

Ep 1372: Otherwise A Mess, Man U Owe Much to Ronaldo

Ep 1371: Ruby Walsh - Memories of Cheltenham From the Greatest Rider Ever on National Hunt’s Toughest Course

Ep1370: Inflation Condemns the Democrats To Heavy Midterm Defeat

Ep 1369: Boris Takes the Gloves Off To Sanction (Some) Of The Tory Party's Former Oligarch Friends

Ep 1368: War in Ukraine - Sanctions Will Hurt Russia But it Will Take Until May

Ep 1367: War In Ukraine - A Silenced Russian Journalist

Ep 1366: War in Europe - Too Close To Nuclear Apocalypse For Comfort

Ep 1365: War in Ukraine - On The Front Between Barbarism and Civilisation

Ep 1364: Premier League Review - United’s Shame

Ep 1363: War in Ukraine - Europe Changed Forever

Ep 1362: In A Changing, Uncertain World Irish Neutrality An Issue We Need to Discuss

Ep 1361: War in Europe - Leading the Free World Resistance to Russia Gains Little Traction With US Voters

Ep 1360: The West’s Robust Sanctions Isolate Putin’s Russia

Ep 1359: Ukraine - Bloody, Long and Dangerous, Putin’s Deadly Game

Ep 1358: Has Putin Made A Fatal Miscalculation?

Ep 1357: Can Ireland and Sweden Remain Neutral In the Face of Russian and Chinese Aggression?

Ep 1356: Football Unites Against Russia .. Except Weak Indecisive FIFA

Ep 1355: Western Weakness Over Ukraine sends Uncomfortable Signals to Taiwan

Ep 1354: War in Europe: Sanctions Won’t Deter Putin

Ep 1353: US Trend Towards Isolationism Bodes Ill for the West

Ep 1352: Above And Beyond The Norm - The Rift Between Michael Martin And Mary Lou McDonald

Ep 1351: Sláinte Care - Stalled At Best, In Trouble At Worst

Ep 1350: Putin Defies the West - Can NATO Allies find a Credible Response?

Ep 1349: Russian Cyber Warfare in Ukraine Threatens The Global System

Ep 1348: All To Play For, The Best Premier League Ever

Ep 1347: War In Europe - As Joe Biden Seeks to Galvanise His Western Allies The American People Remain Lukewarm

Ep 1345 - Cancer In Our communities As Young Gangsters Roam and Threaten with Impunity

Ep 1344 - Britain’s Fateful Choice - Lose Boris or Risk The Future as a Liberal Democracy

Ep 1343: Global Strife Worsening Cost of Living Crisis

Ep 1342: Man United, Spurs and Arsenal - Lacking Leadership and Heading South

Repost: Ronan O'Gara

Ep 1341: Inflation and Covid-19 See Biden’s Approval Ratings Drop. Moderate Americans Begin to Fear Civil War

Ep 1340: Midweek Premier League Review - Man United Badly Need A Manager

Ep 1338: Boris Johnson's Disgrace Touches New Low

Ep 1339: Post-Covid Dáil Politics Head Into the Unknown

Ep 1337: Is The Good Friday Agreement Still Fit For Purpose?

Ep 1336: Toothless EU Found Wanting By the Crisis in Ukraine

Repost: Johnny Sexton

Ep 1335: Trump Promises to Pardon Jan 6th Insurrectionists As Money Pours Into 2024 War Chest

Ep 1334: Covid-19 - Ireland’s Done Well But Vigilance and Restraint Still Required

Ep 1333: FAI News! FAI’s Take On Working From Home And Post-Delaney Trauma Continues

Ep 1332: Boris Johnson - Destroying His Party, And Those Around Him

Ep 1331: China / Taiwan - President Xi Watches Ukraine Crisis for Signs of Western Weakness

Ep 1330: Bloody Sunday - A Dark Day That Changed Everything

Ep 1329: After a Bad Start Joe Biden Rallies The West To Stand Up To Putin

Ep 1328: More Boris Lies ... A Controversial Metropolitan Police Decision Could Afford Him Some Relief

Ep 1327: The Rise and Fall of Freddie Thompson

Ep 1326 - Ukraine Crisis - Putin Testing Western Resolve And Seeking Attention

Ep 1325: Covid-19 Is Not Over But Our Successful Vaccine Programme Justifies Relaxation of Restrictions

Ep 1324: Premier League Review: Man City No Certainty With A Long Way to Go

Ep 1323: Covid-19 - As Deaths Mount Swedes Continue to Do Their Own Thing

Ep 1322: Losing Staff, Sleep And Money -The Story of Hugo’s Restaurant

Ep 1321: Jim Mansfield Jr - Where It All Went Wrong For A Celtic Tiger Cub

Ep 1320: Beaten, Distressed and Out of Options, The End Seems Nigh for Blundering Boris

Ep 1319: Covid-19 - Too Early To Be Sure But Omicron Could Lead Us Back To Normality

Ep 1318: Man City Look Good, Man United a Mess, Rafa a Victim of Circumstances

Ep 1317: Covid-19: Return to Normality Essential to Save Small Businesses, the Backbone of the Economy

Ep 1316: As Biden’s Ratings Plummet… Talk of Hilary Clinton’s Comeback

Ep 1315: No Way Back As Politicians and Public Finally Turn Against Boris

Ep 1314: Boris Is Finished - It’s Just a Matter of How and When

Ep 1313: New Covid Guidelines, Sensible But They Come With Risks Attached

Ep 1312: Golfgate: The Trial

Ep 1311: 23m People, 850 Deaths, No Economic Damage: How Taiwan is Winning the War with Covid-19

Ep 1310: The Treaty Vote that Shaped the Nation to This Day

Ep 1309: More Trouble for Boris But Sir Tony Blair Gives Him a Dig Out

Ep 1308: Printing Money Causes Inflation And That’s A Major Threat This Year

Ep 1307: Divided United States Remembers One Of Its Darkest Days

Ep 1306: Putin Seeks a Deal Not War With Biden In Geneva Talks Next Week

Ep 1305: Covid-19 - Why are Children Returning to Unsafe Classrooms?

Ep 1304: Premier League Holiday Review - Manchester United in Big Trouble

Ep 1303: David Bowie And The Astonishing Endurance of ABBA

Ep 1302: The Rise and Fall of Charlie Haughey

Ep 1301: No Clear Path to The United Ireland We Say We Want

Ep 1300: Boris Johnson, A Posthumous Prime Minister

Ep 1299: Premier League May Need a Mid-Season Break - Can They Afford It?

Ep 1298: Omicron Variant - Things Will Get Worse Before They Get Better

Ep 1297: Inflation, Omicron and Bumbling Boris - Britain Hit By Perfect Storm

Ep 1296: Columbian Mob Boss With Links to Kinahan Cartel Caught

Ep 1295 - Increasingly Audacious China Disappears Wimbledon Tennis Champion

Ep 1294: Covid-19 - Without Adhering To Basic Public Health Norms We Could Be Facing A Perfect Storm

Ep 1293: Even For The Top Three There Are No Easy Games In The Premier League

Ep 1292: The Beatles As Never Seen Before

Ep 1291: Biden Presidency Stalled With Little Cause For Optimism

Ep 1290: Boris - One Scandal From Oblivion

Ep 1289: Paschal Donohoe - Facing Into Tough Times But We’ve Shown Our Resilience As a People

Ep 1288: Covid-19 - No Happy Ending If We Continue As We Are

Ep 1287: Covid-19 - I Did It My Way, By Michael Martin

Ep 1286: Covid-19 - Despite 15,000 Covid Deaths Swedes Remain Sanguine and Party On

Ep 1285: Man U - John Giles and Liam Brady Agree Ralf Rangnick Makes an impressive Start

Ep 1284: Unvoiced In the Age of Covid-19, The Road Haulage Crisis Moving Our Way

Ep 1283: Brexit - Biden’s Steel Tariffs A Warning to Britain On Northern Protocol Dispute

Ep 1282: The US Supreme Court - Trump’s Enduring Gift To Conservatives

Ep 1281: Covid-19 - The Economic Dangers We Face

Ep 1280: Covid-19 - Too Early To Be Sure But Omicron Variant Could Be Serious

Ep 1279: Germany After Merkel - New Coalition Government Faces Many Challenges

Ep 1278: Who’s in Charge in Old Trafford? (Gary Neville Wants to Know)

Ep 1277: Bumbling Boris Safe for Now

Ep 1276: Biden Ratings Slump As a Result of Six Per Cent Inflation

Ep 1275: Covid-19 - The Omicron Variant, What Does it Mean for Ireland?

Ep 1274: Compromise the Favoured Solution for Northerners In Boris’s Dispute With EU

Ep 1273: If Approved Vaccination For 5-12 Year Olds Must Be A Priority

Ep 1272: Is Xavi The Messiah To Save Barca?

Ep 1271: Manchester Utd - Strong Coach Required But Do the Glazers Want One?

Ep 1270: Drug Cartels Cynically Groom The Young And Marginalised

Ep 1269: The Brexit Boomerang - The Making and Breaking of Boris

Ep 1268: Biden's Big Win On Capitol Hill

Ep 1267: Post Pandemic We May Be Living With A New Normal

Ep 1266: Changing World - How Does Europe Pass the Putin Test?

Ep 1265: Cop26 - Glasgow Summit Hints At Hope But No Promise

Ep 1264: Covid-19 - We're Sleepwalking Our Way Into Another Lockdown Or A Crisis In Our Hospitals

Ep 1263: Stephen Kenny Has Earned His Contract Extension

Ep 1262: Lazy, Dishonest, Dangerous Boris A Threat to All

Ep 1261: Our American Dream Turning Into a Nightmare

Ep 1260: Sean Fitzpatrick - Anglo, The Bank That Changed Our World

Ep 1259: Cop 26 - Pledges Not Enough to Curb Global Warming

Ep 1258: COVID-19 - Pfizer’s Anti-Viral Pill A Real Game Changer

Ep 1257: ABBA - Their Triumphant Return

Ep 1256: Liverpool Must Get Serious about Defending

Ep 1255: The Irish Civil War - Between Two Hells

Ep 1254: Tories Turn on Lying Boris

Ep 1253: Bad Week for Biden and The Democrats

Ep 1252: US Resolve Strengthened As China Intensifies Pressure On Taiwan

Ep 1251: Boris Lies To Hide the Brexit Truth

Ep 1250: Big Clubs Run By Small Men, The Real Cause of Spurs' and Man U’s Problems

Ep 1249: Cop26 - The Last Best Chance To Find Consensus On A Climate Solution

Ep 1248: Democrat Divisions Put Biden Presidency on the Line

Ep 1247: The New Tories - Dishonest, Aggressive With No Opposition to Worry About

Ep 1246: Covid-19 - Despite Vaccines, Reopening Is a Fingers Crossed Operation

Ep 1245: Cop26 - Solutions Hard To Find Without Political Consensus

Ep 1244: Antonio Conte A Perfect Fit For United But Will the Glazers Want Him?

Ep 1243: The Beatles v The Rolling Stones - No Contest, Says BP Fallon

Ep 1242: Inflation in Post-Brexit Britain Will Spread to Ireland

Ep 1241: Niall Stanage reports from Washington

Ep 1240: Limerick on Alert As the Gangsters Move Back In

Ep 1239: Dublin - The Slow But Certain Death of the Town We Loved So Well

Ep 1238: Covid-19 - A Decisive Week in the Covid Battle

Ep 1237: Premier League Review - Man Utd Hopelessly Indulging Paul Pogba

Ep 1236: Climate Change - A Challenge Like No Other in History

Ep 1235: NI Protocol - A Unionist Perspective

Ep 1234: Clash of the Clans - The Inside Story of the Kinahan - Hutch Gangland Feud

Ep 1233: China Ratchets Up the Pressure on Taiwan

Ep 1231: Poland and Hungary Find Support Among Other Member States as the EU Turns Right

Ep 1230: Danger for Ireland as UK Tries to Wreck the Brexit Agreement

Ep 1229: Stephen Kenny - The Future?

Ep 1228: Amid Chaos Deluded Boris Sees Sunny Uplands Ahead

Ep 1227: Trump Hits the Road on a High as Forlorn Biden Struggles in Washington

Ep 1226: Sláinte Care - An Establishment Coup?

Ep 1225: Britain The Loser in a Brexit it Didn’t Prepare For

Ep 1224: Life Under the Taliban - American Photojournalist Reports from Kabul

Ep 1223: The End of an Era in Spanish Football As Real and Barca Struggle

Ep 1222: Premier League Review - Liverpool Must Give Mo Salah the Contract He Deserves

Ep 1221: Boris Johnson - Campaigning In Slogans, Governing in Chaos

Ep 1220: Trump’s Republican Party Set to Capitalise on Biden’s Pyrrhic Victory

Ep 1219: Corporation Tax - Pressure on Ireland’s 12.5% Rate May Be Hard To Resist

Ep 1218: UK Chaos - Britain Pays the Price for Brexit. Without Radical Change Ireland Will Too

Ep 1217: School Testing and Tracing Should Not Be Stopped. Privacy Issues Should Not be in Play

Ep 1216: Mica - A Living Nightmare for Irish Families, A First Hand Account

Ep 1215: Premier League Review - Best Premier League Ever

Ep 1214: Incompetence Becoming the Trademark for Biden Administration

Ep 1213: Taiwanese Remain Optimistic They Can Survive Chinese Belligerence

Ep 1212: No Longer a Player in International Affairs But France Remains Sanguine

Ep 1210: Britain Faces Winter of Discontent With No Quick End to the Energy Crisis

Ep 1209: Covid-19 - Have NPHET and the Government a Winter Plan? If Not, Why Not?

Ep 1208: Premier League Review and an Appreciation of Jimmy Greaves

Ep 1207: As Angela Merkel Retires Can Germany Fill The Vacuum Left Behind?

Ep 1206: Democratic Light Fading in The United States

Ep 1205: How The Monk Was Caught

Ep 1204: European Union - Searching for a Role in a Dangerous Changing World

Ep 1203: The Tax Game - Who Wins, Who Loses

Ep 1202: Unsettled and Insecure Unionists Face Into A Hostile World

Ep 1201: Failed Transport Policy Post-Covid Not Addressing Serious Problems

Ep 1200: Premier League - Ronaldo Makes Manchester United Real Contenders

Ep 1199: Sinn Féin's Eoin Ó Broin Undaunted by the Challenge of our Housing Crisis

Ep 1198: Boris’s Chaotic Government Finally Suffers in the Polls

Ep 1197: 9/11 Commemoration - A Sombre America Reflects

Ep 1196: Warning - Cyber Criminals A Threat to All

Ep 1195: The Katherine Zappone Saga - Lies, Evasion and Cronyism the New Normal For Fine Gael?

Ep 1194: Boris's Brexit Damaging Britain More than Any Other Country

Ep 1193: Stephen Kenny - Four Games To Prove He’s the Man For the Job

Ep 1192: Covid-19 - Sweden’s Deadly Failure

Ep 1191: Real Madrid and Barcelona Wounded And Unlikely Challengers for European Honours

Ep 1190: A Very Bad Week for American Democrats

Ep 1189: Bryson DeChambeau - the New And Not Entirely Welcome Face of Golf

Ep 1188: Taiwan - Will America's Retreat from Afghanistan Embolden China?

Ep. 1187: Air Filtration and Antigen Testing - Must Try Harder As Schools Reopen

Ep 1186: Afghanistan - Fractured Alliances Pose A Threat To The West

Ep 1185: Premier League Review

Ep 1184: Barça: The Inside Story of The World's Greatest Football Club

Ep 1183: No Hope No Glory As Britain Flees Afghanistan

Ep 1182: A Bad Week For America That May Haunt the Biden Presidency

Ep 1181: The Monk Captured At Last - A Profile of The Legendary Dublin Criminal

Ep 1180: With Masks And Good Ventilation School Re-opening is Welcome, Done Badly It’s Dangerous

Ep 1179: Afghanistan - The Graveyard of Empires Claims Another Victim

Ep 1178: First it was Trump, Now Biden Puts America First

Ep 1177: Premier League - With Fans Back the Game Has Come Alive Again

Ep 1176: Observers Believe Joe Biden Will Be a Lame Duck President in Fifteen Months Time

Ep 1175: The Open Championship - A Profile Of The Contenders

Ep 1174: Ireland’s Corporate Tax Rate - When Janet Met Paschal

Ep 1173: Euro2020 - England's Shame

Ep 1172: Euro2020 - How Southgate and England Got it Wrong

Ep 1171: Fianna Fáil’s Identity Crisis

Ep 1170: Euro2020 - The Final Previewed

Ep 1169: Disgraced Trump Still the Most Powerful Politician in the US

Ep 1168: Crime Reporter Shot on the Streets of Amsterdam

Ep 1167: Covid-19 - No Easy Option, No Quick Fix

Ep 1166: Covid 19 - Boris Gambles, We All Could Pay

Ep 1165: By Election Special - Will Dublin Bay South Buck the Fine Gael Trend?

Ep 1164: Kinahan Cartel Increasingly Powerless in Their Hometown

Ep 1163: Aggressive President Xi Jinping Sends Warning To The West

Ep 1162: Euro 2020 - Will It Be Sir Gareth Southgate?

Ep 1161: Joe Biden's Presidency – Is It a Pitstop on the Road to Hell?

Ep 1160: Murder in West Cork - The Eternal Mystery of Sophie Toscan du Plantier’s Death

Ep 1159: Euro 2020 - Football's Coming Home

Ep 1158: Covid-19 - NPHET’s Worst Case Scenario Not Necessarily The Best Guide

Ep 1157: EU Stands Idly By As Victor Orban Shreds Its Values

Ep 1156: Euro 2020 - Germany to Beat England

Ep 1155: Another Episode of the Carry On Movie That is Boris's Britain

Ep 1154: Euro 2020 - The Last Sixteen

Ep 1153: For the Biden Administration, The End May Well Be Nigh

Ep 1152: United Ireland – An Irresistible Cause, The Question Is How

Ep 1151: The Euros – France A Nation Slow To Embrace Its Team

Ep 1150: Covid-19 - Our Best and Brightest Scientists Are Being Ignored

Ep 1149: Brexit - Chickens Come Home to Roost for Boris Johnson

Ep 1148: Leo’s New Vision - Authentic or Expedient?

Ep 1147: UEFA Euro 2020 Review

Ep 1146: NI Protocol - Business Must Find the Solution that Politics Can't

Ep 1145: The Scale of China's Global Ambitions Becoming Clear

Ep 1144: Joe Biden – Warmly Received in Europe, Back in Battle Mode in US

Ep 1143: Antigen Testing – Cautious NPHET Can't Have The Last Word

Ep 1142: EU Cannot Back Down In Northern Ireland Protocol Row With UK

Ep 1141: Mica Crisis – Will The Government Save Its People?

Ep 1140: Euro 2020 – Weekend Review

Ep 1139: The Serious Consequences of Boris Johnson's Lies

Ep 1138: A Curse on Both Your Houses - Unionists Despair of London And Dublin

Ep 1137: As Joe Biden Claims America is Back Barack Obama Asks For How Long?

Ep 1136: A Preview of Euro 2020

Ep 1135: Crime Cartels Dealt a Historic Blow

Ep 1134: Covid 19 - Young People Be Careful, Long Covid Can Cause Serious Problems

Ep 1133: Empire of Pain - The Secret History of The Sackler Dynasty

Ep 1132: Covid Recovery – Unemployment A Greater Threat Than Inflation

Ep 1131: Republicans Lead The Attack On American Democracy

Ep 1130: Growing Chinese Aggression in Hong Kong and Taiwan

Ep 1129: Covid-19 – A Triumph for Science But Still Lots to Learn

Ep 1128: The Olympics - IOC Defies The Will of the Japanese People

Ep 1127: One Boy's Journey to Hell - Joey O'Callaghan's Story

Ep 1126: Constitutional Change Required To Solve Ireland’s Housing Crisis

Ep 1125: ‘Pep’ Gets it Wrong, Kanté The Greatest

Ep 1124: The Treaty - The Deal That Shaped Irish Politics To This Day

Ep 1123: Trump Still The Most Potent Force on America's Political Landscape

Ep 1122: A Week Is A Long Time In Spanish Football

Ep 1120: Dominic Cummings – The Westminster Axe Man