What If... : 2008 Archive

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Programme 27: 6th July 2008   
The last programme in the series is a compilation of the best of the current series' programmes.

Programme 26: 29th June 2008        
What if the Democratic Programme of the first Dáil had been implemented
Des Geraghty and Fr. Anthony Gaughan

Programme 25: 22nd June 2008
What if there had been no 'Women Today' programme?
Dioreann Ní Bhrian and Monica Barnes

Programme 24: 15th June 2008
What if Bloomsday had not been celebrated in 1954?
Emer Nolan and Prof. Luke Gibbons

Programme 23: 8th June 2008
What if we had lost our traditional music heritage?
Toner Quinn and Nicholas Carolan

Programme 22: 1st June 2008
What if Micheál Mac Liammoir had not come to Ireland?
Bill Golding and Prof. Chris Morash

Programme 21: 25th May 2008
What if the Gardaí had been armed from their foundation?
Tom McCaughren and Jim Herlihy

Programme 20: 18th May 2008
What if Donough O'Malley had lived?
Prof. Tom Garvin and Stephen Collins

Programme 19: 11th May 2008
What if domestic rates were not abolished following the General Election of 1977?

Dermot Lacey, Labour member of Dublin City Council
Mark Callanan, Lecturer at The Institute of Public Administration

Programme 18: 4th May 2008
What if Pádraig Flynn had not appeared on the Late Late Show in 1999?

Michael Clifford, Sunday Tribune
Michael Nugent, Writer, Blogger and Commentator

Programme 17: 27th April 2008
What if Ireland had not left the Commonwealth in 1949?

Noel Dore, Former Ambassador, Diplomat and Secretary to the Department of Foreign Affairs.
Geoffrey Robertson, Department of History UCC

Programme 16: 20th April 2008
What if Peter Robinson had been jailed following the invasion of the village of Clontibret by a loyalist mob on the 7th of August 1986?

Déaglán De Bréadún , Political Correspondent Irish Times
Dr Stephen King, Irish Examiner Columnist

Programme 15: 13th April 2008
What if the National University of Ireland was not established in 1908?

Prof. Michael Laffan, UCD
Dr. Judith Harford, UCD

Programme 14: 6th April 2008
What if the Irish Georgian Society was not established in 1958?

Robert O'Byrne, Journalist and Historian
Marian Cashman, Conservation Architect

Programme 13: 30th March 2008
What if Seán Doherty had not been interviewed on Nighthawks in 1992?

Kevin Rafter, Political Editor Sunday Tribune
Peter Murtagh, Editor Irish Times Opinion pages

Programme 12: 23rd March 2008
What if the punt was not devalued in 1993?

Paul Sweeney, Economic Advisor ICTU
George Lee, Economics Editor RTÉ

Programme 11: 16th March 2008
What if there was no Womens Franchise League founded in 1908?

Mary Cullen, Centre for Gender and Womens Studies, Trinity College
Rosemary Cullen Owens, Womens Education Research & Resource Centre, UCD

Programme 10: 9th March 2008
What if there were no Radharc documentaries?

Fr. Dermot McCarthy, Former Editor Religious Programmes(RTÉ)
Tom Savage, Chairman of the Communications Clinic

Programme 9: 2nd March 2008
What if we had responded differently to the drugs crisis of the 1980's?

Fergus McCabe, community activist
Shane Butler, Trinity College Dublin

Programme 8: 24th February 2008
What if Roger Casement had not kept a diary?

Margaret O'Callaghan, Queens University Belfast
Frank Callanan, Barrister.

Programme 7: 17th February 2008
What if the Four Courts had not been burned in 1922?

Caitríona Crowe, the National Archives
Eunan O'Hailpín, Dept. of History Trinity College Dublin

Programme 6: 10th February 2008
What if there had been a tribunal of enquiry into the Sallins Mail Train robbery?

Patsy McGarry, journalist and author of 'While Justice Slept'
Greg O'Neill, solicitor

Programme 5: 3rd February 2008
What If there had been no Munich Air Disaster?

Peter Byrne, former soccer correspondent of the Irish Times
Mike Cronin of Boston College Dublin, sports historian.

Programme 4: 27th January 2008
What if there had been no arms trial.

David Andrews, former Minister for Foreign Affairs
James Downey, journalist and columnist.

Programme 3: 20th January 2008
What if there had been proper planning?

Prof. Michael Bannon
Fergal McCabe, architect and planner

Programme 2: 13th January 2008
What if Seán McBride had remained living in France?

Elizabeth Keane, biographer
Kevin Rafter, journalist and author

Programme 1: 6th January 2008
What if Carnsore Nuclear Power Station had been built?

Frank Turvey, engineer
Oisín Coghlan, Director Friends of the Earth