Pat is joined by Minister of State Brian Hayes, Senator Daragh O Brien, Breda O Brian columnist with the Irish Times, Barrister Noel Whelan and journalist Noireen Heagerty, to discuss the past weeks events.
A manhunt is going on both sides of the Border for the gang who shot dead Detective Garda Adrian Donohue in County Louth on Friday. Some clues are beginning to emerge. The PSNI are examining a burned out car found in South Armagh – 25 miles from the scene of the shooting at Lordship Credit Union in Bellurgan , on the Cooley peninsula. There are suspicions that the group involved in the robbery and murder are a cross border crime gang which operates in Louth and South Armagh. Valerie Cox has been to Cooley where she spoke to some of ...
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 ...
So what is the biggest story arising from yesterday’s by-election in Meath East? The fact that a government candidate took the seat in the midst of the toughest austerity drive in the history of the state? The fact that a party lambasted in the last general election has made a dramatic fight back? Or is it the fact that the junior party in government dropped their vote by over three quarters in two years? Myles was joined in studio by former Labour Party National organiser, Pat Magner; barrister Noel Whelan and Fionnan Sheahan of the Irish Independent.