80 years ago this week, Fianna Fail won a landslide General Election victory – and under the leadership of Eamonn de Valera, the first majority Fianna Fail came to power. Fianna Fail was the largest party in Dail Eireann at every election until 2011 when it suffered the worst defeat of a sitting government in the history of the State. So how could a political party that was so successful (even by international standards) could lose control so completely? Dr Sarah Campbell, lecturer in modern Irish history at NewcastleUniversity and Noel Whelan, author of Fianna Fail – a Biography of ...
Yesterda we played a clip of a woman with a conundrum, whether to dip her toe into politics or not! On the line is Margaret, from Dublin who says No & Pat O'Brien, from Mallow who says Yes! Catherine the lady with the conundrum also is on the line.