What If... : 2006 - 2007 Archive 

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Programme 51: 26th August 2007
If we'd kept the Trams         
Guests: Frank McDonald and James Wickham
(First broadcast 18/02/07)

Programme 50: 19th August 2007
If Synge had lived 
Guests: Terry Dolan and Fintan O'Toole
(First broadcast 21/01/078)

Programme 49: 12th August 2007
If the McGee case had been turned down
Guests: Monica Barnes and Ivana Bacik
(First broadcast 24/09/06)

Programme 48: 5th August 2007
If there had been no miserable Irish childhoods   
Guest: Colum Toibin
(First broadcast 31/12/06)

Programme 47: 29th July 2007
If James Connolly had survived 1916
Guests: Francis Devine and Caitríona Crowe
(First broadcast 11/02/07)

Programme 46: 22nd July 2007
If there had been social workers in the 1960s?
Guests; Noirin Kearney and Caroline Skehill
(First broadcast 19/11/06)

Programme 45: 15th July 2007
If Pope's visit had been later?
Guests; Margaret McCurtain and Ted Fleming
(First broadcast 15/10/06)

Programme 44: 8th July 2007
If Derry March had been permitted?
Guests; Denis Bradley and Susan McKay.
(First broadcast 8/10/06)

Programme 43: 1st July 2007
If Ryanair had gone bust?
Guests; Pat Byrne, City Jet and Eoin Corry 
(First broadcast 10/09/06)

Programme 42: 24th June 2007
If ROSC had continued?
Guests; Robert Ballagh and Medbh Ruane

Programme 41: 17th June 2007
If there had been no foreign investment in Ireland?
Guests; Chris Coughlan and Kieran Allen

Programme 40: 10th June 2007
If Patrick Kavanagh had stayed in Monaghan?
Guests; Antoinette Quinn and Fr. Tom Stack

Programme 39: 3rd June 2007
If there had been no Eucharistic Congress?
Guests; Finola Kennedy and Brian Maye

Programme 38: 27th May 2007
What if the Kerry Babies Tribunal had reached different conclusions?
Guests; Prof. Tom Inglis and Mary Higgins

Programme 37: 20th May 2007
What if there had been no National Pay Agreements?
Guests; Jimmy Somers and Finbar Flood

Programme 36: 13th May 2007
What if there had been no 'Ne Temere Decree and no boycott?
Guests; Justice Catherine McGuinness and Sr. Margaret McCurtain

Programme 35: 6th May 2007
What if the Pike had not been prosecuted for the Rose Tattoo?
Guests; Lee Dunne and Gerard Whelan

Programme 34: 29th April 2007
What if the Irish electoral system was different?
Guests; Richard Synott and Nora Owen

Programme 33: 22nd April 2007
What if Parnell had lived?
Guests; Margaret O'Callaghan and Frank Callanan

Programme 32: 15th April 2007
What if cricket had become Ireland's national game?
Guests; Eoghan Corry and Paul Rause

Programme 31: 8th April 2007
What if there had been no Second Vatican Council?
Guests; Fr. Tom Stack and Cathy Molloy

Programme 30: 1st April 2007
What if the Irish language had not been made compulsory?
Guests; Prof Michael Cronin of Dublin City University and writer Hugo Hamilton

Programme 29: 25th March 2007

Programme 28: 18th March 2007
What If there had been no St. Partick's Day Parades
Guests: Terry Dolan, University College Dublin Dept. of English
Mike Cronin, Boston College, Dublin

Programme 27: 11th March 2007
What if RTE television had been set up as an independent station
Guests: Bob Collins, former Director General of RTE and Michael Foley Dublin Institute of Technology

Programme 26: 4th March 2007
If Michael Collins had survived the Civil War
Guests: Tim Pat Coogan and Maurice Manning

Programme 25: 25th February 2007
If there had been no Dublin Theatre Festival
Guests: Chris Morash and Tony O'Dalaigh

Programme 24: 18th February 2007
If we had kept the trams
Guests: Frank McDonald and James Wickham

Programme 23: 11th February 2007
If James Connolly had survived 1916
Guests: Francis Devine and Caitríona Crowe

Programme 22: 4th February 2007
If George Colley had become leader of Fianna Fáil
Guests: Des O'Malley and Jim Downey

Programme 21: 28th January 2007
If the IFA and FAI had united in the 1930's
Guests: Eoghan Corry and Mike Cronin

Programme 20: 21st January 2007
If JM Synge had lived
Guests: Terry Dolan and Fintan O'Toole

Programme 19: 14th January 2007
If there had been no reclaim the streets march in 1978
Guests: Susan McKay and Gemma Hussey.

Programme 18: 7th January 2007
If Paddy Donegan had not made his speech about Cearbhaill O'Dalaigh.
Guests: Stephen Collins and Jim Duffy.

Programme 17: 31st December 2006
If there had been no miserable Irish Childhoods
Guests: Colum Toibin

Programme 16: 17th December 2006
If Ian Paisley had opted more for religion than politics
Guests: Suzanne Breen and Deaglán de Bréadun

Programme 15: 10th December 2006
What if Irish Students in the 1960's had been more radical.
Guests: Margaret McCurtain and Jim Lockhart

Programme 14: 3rd December 2006
If Dev had signed the Treaty.
Guests: Michael Hopkinson and Micheal Kennedy

Programme 13: 26th November 2006
If there had been no film tax breaks.
Guests: Ruth Barton and Roddy Flynn

Programme 12: 19th November 2006
If there had been social workers in the 60's
Guests: Noirin Kearney and Caroline Skehill

Programme 11: 12th November 2006
If the seventies had been socialist.
Guests: Niamh Breathnach and Brian Trench

Programme 10: 5th November 2006
If the Abbey had failed after its foundation
Guests: Michael Cronin and Christopher Fitzsimons

Programme 9: 29th October 2006
If Clann na Poblachta had won more seats in the 1947 election
Guests: Kevin Rafter and Noel Whelan

Programme 8: 22nd October 2006
If there had been no artists tax exemption.
Guests: Marion Fitzgibbon and Peter Sheridan

Programme 7: 15th October 2006
If the Pope's visit had been later.
Guests: Margaret McCurtain and Ted Fleming

Programme 6: 8th October 2006
If the Derry march had been permitted
Guests: Denis Bradley and Susan McKay

Programme 5: 1st October 2006
If the referendum to join the EEC had been defeated
Guests: Bridget Laffan and Eamon Ryan TD

Programme 4: 24th September 2006
If the McGee case had been turned down by the Supreme Court.
Guests: Monica Barnes and Ivana Bacik

Programme 3: 17th September 2006
Declan Costello had become leader of Fíne Gael
Guests: Maurice Manning and Brendan Halligan

Programme 2: 10th September 2006
If Ryanair had gone bust in 1991
Guests: Pat Byrne, City Jet and Eoin Corry

Programme 1: 3rd September 2006
If DeValera had said yes to Churchill's offer of unity in 1941
Guests: Brian Girvin and Senator Martin Mansergh