Tonight, Miriam O’Callaghan moderates the final debate of this election with Enda Kenny, Micheál Martin and Eamon Gilmore in studio.
If you can’t quite contain yourself until then…the first televised debate between party leaders only took place in 1982. That was between Charles Haughey and Garret FitzGerald and was the first of two that year. Prime Time has sourced all of the debates since then from the RTÉ Archives and presents them below.
February 1982: Charles Haughey and Garret FitzGerald
November 1982: Charles Haughey and Garret FitzGerald
February 1987: Charles Haughey and Garret FitzGerald
November 1992: Albert Reynolds and John Bruton
June 1997: John Bruton and Bertie Ahern
May 2002: Bertie Ahern and Michael Noonan
May 2007: Bertie Ahern and Enda Kenny
