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Ep 957: Kinahan's Gang Rule Extends Into Prisons

Nicola Tallant, Investigations Editor at The Sunday World, talks to Eamon.

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Ep 956: Brexit - Heading for Chaos Driven by Boris Johnson and Michael Gove

Verona Murphy, Independent TD for Wexford and former President of the Irish Road Haulage Association, talks to Eamon about the impact of Brexit on the transport of goods.

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Ep 955: EU Attitude To Brexit Hardens As Talks Run Out of Time

Naomi O'Leary, Europe Correspondent for The Irish Times and Host of The Irish Passport, talks to Eamon.

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December 2020

2 episodes

12/02
Ep 957: Kinahan's Gang Rule Extends Into Prisons
12/01
Ep 956: Brexit - Heading for Chaos Driven by Boris Johnson and Michael Gove

November 2020

33 episodes

11/30
Ep 955: EU Attitude To Brexit Hardens As Talks Run Out of Time
11/30
Ep 954: Premier League Review
11/30
Ep 953: Colm Tóibín - On Donald Trump and His People
11/28
Ep 952: Covid-19 - Sweden Got it Wrong
11/27
Ep 951: Not Gone, Not Forgotten – Trump Owns The Republican Party
11/27
Ep 950: Covid-19 - We're About to Make a Terrible Mistake
11/26
Ep 949: Maradona - "Maybe the Greatest of Them All"
11/26
Ep 948: The World's Economy in Uncharted Territory
11/25
Ep 947: In Praise of Brexit, A Lament For The Donald
11/24
Ep 946: Covid-19 Vaccine - A Triumph For Science and Humanity
11/23
Ep 945: Life After The Pandemic - A Good News Story
11/23
Ep 944: Premiership Review and Reflection on Ireland's Performances Last Week
11/21
Ep 943: Labour's Anti-Semitism Lets Boris Off the Hook
11/20
Ep 942: American Democracy Faces Its Darkest Hour
11/19
Ep 941: Cummings Departure and Biden Victory May Get Brexit Done
11/18
Ep 940: Covid-19, Brexit - A Unionist Perspective
11/17
Ep 939: Brexit - As Time Runs Out No Signs Of Hope For A Deal
11/17
Ep 938: Covid-19 Vaccine - When Will We Have? How Will It Work?
11/16
Ep 937: Collapse of the Mansfield Empire Leads to the Special Criminal Court
11/16
Ep 936: Surge in Cases Tests Sweden's Resolve
11/14
Ep 935: Right Wing Hacks, After Dinner Speakers and Journalists - No Way to Govern
11/13
Ep 934: Trump Down But By No Means Out
11/12
Ep 933: Weak and Disorganised Boris Blunders Towards a Chaotic Brexit
11/10
Ep 932: Trump - His Presidency Over But Trumpism Lives On
11/10
Ep 931: No Easy Answer to the Seamus Woulfe Puzzle
11/10
Ep 930: Covid-19 – Great News on the Vaccine, But Some Way To Go Before We're Safe
11/09
Ep 929: Covid-19 - Wrong Policy Doomed to Fail
11/09
Ep 928: Players Being Pushed Beyond Their Limit - Injury Crisis Inevitable
11/05
Ep 925: Covid-19 - Why Europe Is Failing the Covid Test
11/04
Ep 924: US Election Special – No Winner Yet in Tight Race
11/03
Ep 923: Trump v Biden - Important But Not The End of History
11/03
Ep 922: Covid-19 - The Economy Going Places It's Never Gone Before
11/02
Ep 921: Nobby Stiles - An Appreciation

October 2020

36 episodes

10/31
Ep 920: Corbyn Provides Good News for Embattled Boris (Again)
10/30
Ep 919: America Decides, The World Waits
10/30
Ep 918: Covid-19 - Virus Out of Control in Putin's Russia
10/29
Ep 917: Covid – A Dissident Voice
10/28
Ep 916: Angela Merkel - The Leader Germany and Europe Can Ill-Afford to Lose
10/27
Ep 915: Racist Donald Versus Sleepy Joe - America And The World to Play For
10/27
Ep 914: The Rise and Fall of John Gilligan
10/26
Ep 913: Liverpool Ahead of the Rest - Sky and BT Sport Rip-Off Loyal Customers
10/25
Ep 912: Boris Waits For US Election Result Before Making His Brexit Move
10/23
Ep 911: 42 Million Votes Cast – Has America Already Decided?
10/23
Ep 910: Spain Prepares for Saddest Clasico Ever In A Country Bitterly Divided by Covid Pandemic
10/22
Ep 909: No Justice for House of Horrors' Victim
10/22
Ep 908: Boris Seeks Redemption Through Brexit
10/21
Ep 907: Covid-19 - Victory Over The Virus No Longer Assured For Sweden
10/20
Ep 906: Six Week Lockdown Welcome But We Must Use Time Wisely
10/19
Ep 905: Covid-19 - Lockdown Alone Will Not Solve The Covid-19 Crisis
10/19
Ep 904: VAR Farce Spoils Another Exciting Premier League Weekend
10/17
Ep 903: Brexit - Boris Puts It Up To Europe
10/16
Ep 902: Polarised and Fearful – America Votes
10/15
Ep 901: Budget 2021 - Doing Whatever it Takes
10/14
Ep 900: All-Island Approach A Must To Beat Covid-19
10/14
Ep 899: Can A No Deal Brexit Be Avoided Now?
10/13
Ep 898: Why The Germans Do it Better
10/12
Ep 897: International Soccer - Greed Killing the Beautiful Game
10/09
Ep 896: America on the Brink
10/09
Ep 895: Reasons for Optimism But We Need a Goalscorer
10/08
Ep 894: Boris – Exposed and Clueless, The Myth Dissolves
10/07
Ep 893: Paschal Donohoe, Minister for Finance – Hope for the Best and Plan for the Worst
10/07
Ep 892: Crime In A Time Of Covid
10/06
Ep 891: Covid-19 - In Trouble and Heading for Worse
10/05
Ep 890: Covid-19 - Reckless Trump Administration A Threat To All
10/05
Ep 889: Man Utd Demolished, Liverpool Get a Wake-Up Call
10/03
Ep 888: Boris’s Britain Catches a New Virus: Incompetence
10/02
Ep 887: Trump Struck Down By The Virus, Others In His Circle At Risk
10/02
Ep 886: Crunch Time For Brexit As Boris Meets Ursula Von Der Leyen
10/01
Ep 885: Covid-19 - How Australia is Beating the Virus

September 2020

36 episodes

09/30
Ep 884: Trump Plumbs New Depths in Presidential Debate
09/30
Ep 883: Covid-19 - Facing Economic Waste Land
09/29
Ep 882: Covid-19 - Unless We Abandon Our Defeatist Strategy We're Looking at 35,000 Deaths
09/28
Ep 881: Post-Covid - Will The Old Politics Survive?
09/28
Ep 880: Humiliation for Man City - Pogba Exposed Again
09/26
Ep 879: White Collar Job Security A Thing of the Past
09/25
Ep 878: Trump v Biden – A Defining Moment for a Troubled Nation
09/25
Ep 877: Boris – Trumpian Exposed as Workshy Laughing Stock
09/24
Ep 876: Covid-19 – In Sweden, the Jury is Still Out
09/23
Ep 875: Health v Wealth - Political Leadership Required to Get the Balance Right
09/22
Ep 874: Covid In Europe And Brexit Talks On The Brink
09/21
Ep 873: Death of US Supreme Court Justice - Stakes Just Got Higher in Presidential Race
09/21
Ep 872: Without Major Changes Manchester United Will Struggle
09/21
Ep 871 : Champagne Football - How John Delaney Brought the FAI To Its Knees
09/18
Ep 870: Trump Makes Himself the Issue, Biden Exceeds Low Expectations
09/18
Ep 869: The Future Fianna Fáil – A Strong Left-of-Centre Party
09/17
Ep 868: The Slow and Painful Exposure of Boris
09/16
Ep 867: Two Northern Communities – Further Apart Than Ever
09/15
Ep 866: Boris's Brexit – Bad for Britain, Bad for Ireland, Bad for Europe
09/14
Ep 865: Jose Mourinho – Yesterday's Man
09/14
Ep 864: Personal Behaviour the Key to Winning the War With Covid
09/11
Ep 863: Bad Week for Trump But Will It Hurt Him With His Fans?
09/11
Ep 862: Leeds Back in the Premier League - John Giles Recalls the Great Leeds Team He Played For
09/10
Ep 861: Johnson/Cummings Moonshot Politics Drive Us Towards the Cliff Edge
09/09
Ep 860: Boris's Britain - Land of Soap and Glory
09/08
Ep 859: Chaos in the World's Most Potent Democracy
09/08
Ep 858: Covid-19 - Ireland and Europe Trending Towards Trouble
09/07
Ep 857: Stephen Kenny, Taking the Road Less Travelled
09/07
Ep 856: "Shock" in Brussels and Dublin at Boris's Delinquency
09/05
Ep 855: Get Real or Get Ready for a Terrible Winter
09/04
Ep 854: Seamus Coleman Missed as Ireland Escape in Sofia
09/04
Ep 853: The Witness
09/03
Ep 852: Poisoning Putin's Enemies - A Russian Perspective
09/02
Ep 851: American Dream Is Becoming A Nightmare
09/02
Ep 850: No Good News for the Kinahan Cartel
09/01
Ep 849: Hard Brexit Looming For A Weakened Tory Party

August 2020

34 episodes

08/31
Ep 848: Irreconcilable Differences Make Messi's Man City Move More Likely
08/29
Ep 847: Covid-19 – Another Lockdown Would Be Ruinous
08/28
Ep 846: Biden Victory No Done Deal
08/28
Ep 845: Messi Talks to Pep and Looks Good to Go to City
08/27
Ep 844: Covid-19 – No Governing Consensus
08/26
Ep 843: Lionel Messi for the Premier League?
08/26
Ep 842: As Trump and Boris Reign, The Centre Cannot Hold
08/25
Ep 841: Commissioner Hogan on the EU Exit Ramp?
08/25
Ep 840: Belarus - People Take to the Streets to Protest Rigged Election
08/24
Ep 839: Covid-19 – Sweden Serenely Plays The Long Game
08/24
Ep 838: No Party For PSG As Bayern Lift The Cup
08/21
Ep 837: Biden Exceeds Expectations In Acceptance Speech, Yet Polls Tighten
08/21
Ep 836: Covid-19 – Official Ireland Breaches Its Own Rules
08/20
Ep 835: Covid-19 – No Leadership, No Convincing Policy
08/20
Ep 834: Covid-19 – The Terrifying Prospect of Businesses Collapsing and Mass Unemployment
08/19
Ep 833: Barcelona's Humiliation
08/18
Ep 832: Meat Processing Plants - Fertile Ground for Covid-19 Virus
08/17
Ep 831: Re-opening Schools - A Gamble That Could Go Wrong
08/17
Ep 830: Impressive Bayern To Be Champions - Trouble For Man United And ‘Pep’
08/14
Ep 829: Populists Exposed By Covid Pandemic
08/13
Ep 828: Justice Served - 40 Years for Aaron Brady
08/13
Ep 827: Spain Tortured By Coronavirus
08/12
Ep 826: Harris Strengthens the Biden Ticket
08/12
Ep 825: With the Arrest of Jimmy Lai, China Instils Fear in Hong Kong
08/11
Ep 824: FAI Crisis – Visionaries' Vision Looking a Bit Blurred
08/10
Ep 823: Covid-19 – Austerity Not the Answer to Economic Disaster
08/10
Ep 822: Overhyped Man City Won't Win the Champions League
08/07
Ep 821: Trump Running Against Himself as Biden Stays Home
08/07
Ep 820: More Trouble at the FAI – The Mess Shane Ross Left Behind
08/06
Ep 819: Covid-19 – The Next Ten Days Are Critical
08/05
Ep 818: Politicians v Plutocrats - Can Washington Tame Tech Giants?
08/04
Ep 817: On The Passing Of John Hume Eamonn McCann Talks About The Man He Knew
08/04
Ep 816: October Budget A Real Test For Uneasy Coalition
08/01
Ep 815: Covid-19 – Sweden Plays The Long Game

July 2020

19 episodes

07/31
Ep 814: Republicans Beginning To Distance Themselves From Trump
07/30
Ep 813: Boris Threatens the Union, Bad News for Ireland
07/29
Ep 812: Cervical Check Scandal – Official Ireland's Shameless Torture of Its Victims
07/29
Ep 811: The View from Russia
07/28
Ep 810: Democracy Is Asleep While Tyrants Grow Bolder
07/28
Ep 809: Brexit - Boris Must Deliver on Time
07/27
Ep 808: Liam Brady Joins Eamon To Review The Premiership Season
07/25
Ep 807: Government Stimulus Welcome but Brexit Looms Ugly in the Background
07/24
Ep 806: Rapidly Spreading Coronavirus Bodes Ill for The Donald
07/24
Ep 805: As The Kinahan Cartel Is Brought Down it Leaves a Legacy of Fear, Hatred and Division
07/23
Ep 804 – China Well Prepared for the Coming Cold War
07/21
Ep 803: Angela Merkel Takes the Lead as Europe Meets the Challenge of Covid-19
07/21
Ep 802: Covid-19 - Absence of Clear Thinking May Prove Costly
07/06
Ep 801: Hong Kong Fights for Its Life
07/05
Ep 800: Barcelona and Messi – The Sad End to a Glorious Era
07/03
Ep 799: Another Dismal Week for Donald Trump
07/03
Ep 798: Europe Divided On Pandemic Bailout – Angela Merkel's Greatest Challenge
07/02
Ep 797: Robert Fisk - No End to Israeli Expansion
07/02
Ep 796: Lack of Covid Leadership is Dangerous

June 2020

31 episodes

06/30
Ep 795: More Bad News for the Kinahan Mob
06/30
Ep 794: Send in the Clowns - Johnson and Cummings Drive Britain to the Cliff Edge
06/29
Ep 793: New Government Will Need To Show Plenty of Bottle
06/29
Ep 792: Liverpool – The Real Deal
06/23
Ep 785: Covid-19 - Low Numbers Can Lie, The Virus Is Around and Dangerous
06/22
Ep 784: Our Political Crisis - Micheál Martin and the Green Party Play for High Stakes
06/22
Ep 783: John Giles and Liam Brady On Football Without Fans
06/20
Ep 782: Can The Blueshirts Learn To Love Fianna Fáil?
06/19
Ep 781: Trump Gambles All On A Healthy Economy and a Disappearing Virus
06/19
Ep 780: Covid-19 - Not Listening to the Science Comes with Risks Attached
06/18
Ep 779: Premier League Returns With Impressive Show Of Solidarity Against Racism
06/17
Ep 778: Brexit - A Mess Made in Britain
06/16
Ep 777: China On the Back Foot as Covid-19 Spikes in Beijing
06/15
Ep 776: Johnson’s Britain Blunders On
06/15
Ep 775: New Government to See the End of Civil War Politics
06/12
Ep 774: Trump Tacks To His Base As Polls Favour Biden
06/12
Ep 773: Dithering Boris Being Exposed
06/12
Ep 772: Daniel Kinahan Hits The Big Time
06/11
Ep 771: Covid-19 – Mitigate, Suppress, Eliminate – It's Time to Decide
06/09
Ep 770: Trump Leads America Into the Unknown
06/09
Ep 769: Britain - No Quick Fix for Institutional Racism
06/08
Ep 768: Time For Ireland to Get Back to Work
06/08
Ep 767: Covid-19 - Sweden Fears Tegnell May Be Wrong
06/06
Ep 766: When We Get Back to Business, Support Your Local High Street
06/05
Ep 765: A Defining Moment for Trump and America
06/04
Ep 764: Boris Intent on No Deal Brexit
06/03
Ep 763: Covid-19 – Ireland Heading for Second Surge
06/03
Ep 762: John Giles Remembers The Busby Babes
06/02
Ep 761: America's Mood Darkens
06/02
Ep 760: While Trump Retreats to Isolation Putin Seeks Allies in Europe
06/01
Ep 759: Who Murdered Olof Palme?

May 2020

34 episodes

05/29
Ep 758: As America Burns, Trump Stokes The Fire
05/29
Ep 757: Boris Shedding Allies and Credibility
05/29
Ep 756: Millennials – The Jinxed Generation
05/28
Ep 755: Dr. Superstar Leads Sweden's Battle With The Virus
05/27
Ep 754: People - Our Principle Export And Emigration Not An Option This Time
05/26
Ep 753: China Gets Tough with Hong Kong Protesters
05/26
Ep 752: The Greats We Played With
05/25
Ep 751: Brazen Boris Stakes Everything on Dominic Cummings
05/24
Ep 750: Little Richard - An Appreciation
05/22
Ep 749: Searching for Enemies, the Trump Presidency Grows Ever More Surreal
05/22
Ep 748: Brexit - Even Britain's Friends Are Confused
05/21
Ep 747: Government Formation Talks – Greens Throw A Spanner in the Works
05/20
Ep 746: The Life and Death of Larry Dunne
05/20
Ep 745: Real Jobs, Real Fear, Real Pain
05/19
Ep 743: Uncharted Waters - The Greatest Economic Crisis in Modern History
05/18
Ep 742: Covid-19 - Ireland Needs Leadership We Can Trust
05/18
Ep 741: The Bundesliga is Back
05/17
Ep 740: Wearing the Green Jersey
05/15
Ep 739: As Trump Stumbles On, No Show From Biden
05/15
Ep 738: Covid Debt Crisis Poses Mortal Threat to Europe
05/14
Ep 737: Daniel Kinahan Now A Leading Player In Global Boxing
05/13
Ep 736: Britain’s Covid Tragedy - Is the Media Really to Blame?
05/12
Ep 735: Covid-19 - As Things Stand Ireland is in Trouble
05/11
Ep 734: Michael Robinson - An Obituary and Dark Clouds on the Political Horizon
05/08
Ep 733: Trump Assaults Justice
05/08
Ep 732: Covid-19 – Strong Political Leadership Needed
05/08
Ep 731: Jack Charlton 85 Today - The Man We Knew
05/07
Ep 730: Britain's Covid-19 Disaster – Boris Tries To Spin His Way Out
05/06
Ep 729: Alan Kelly, Labour Party Leader. We Can't Go Back to the Old Ireland
05/06
Ep 728: Dangerous Divide - the US and China Face into a New Cold War
05/05
Ep 727: Covid 19 - Though Fatalities Rise Sweden Sticks With the Game Plan
05/03
Ep 726: Living the Dream
05/02
Ep 725: Covid-19 – No Surrender from Under Pressure China as Party Fights Back
05/01
Ep 724: Trump's Gamble Opening Up America

April 2020

34 episodes

04/30
Ep 723: Best All-Ireland Soccer Team
04/29
Ep 722: Covid-19 – As UK Numbers Soar, Tide Beginning to Turn on Boris
04/28
Ep 721: Covid-19 - Solutions Can't Be Left to the Doctors
04/28
Ep 720: Covid-19 - The Numbers And What They Mean
04/27
Ep 719: No Answer to Covid-19, No Answer to Viktor Orbán. What's the EU for?
04/27
Ep 718: A View from Russia - On Putin, Covid-19 and Other Things
04/25
Ep 717: Covid-19 - Steadfast Sweden Not for Turning
04/24
Ep 716: Trump's Theatre of the Absurd
04/23
Ep 715: The Best Premier League Team Ever
04/23
Ep 714: Post Covid-19 - Capitalism But Not As We've Known It
04/22
Ep 713: This Is Not A Muddle-through Moment for Europe - Merkel Must Show Leadership
04/22
Ep 712: Crime in a Time of Covid-19
04/21
Ep 711: Care Home Scandal - Minister Harris and Taoiseach Need to Show Leadership Now
04/21
Ep 710: Political Cupboard Bare Without Big Boris
04/20
Ep 709: Covid-19 - Capitalism's Greatest Challenge
04/18
Ep 708: A Pivotal Moment For Europe
04/17
Ep 707: Trump Turns Covid Crisis Into Campaign Tool; Biden Invisible
04/17
Ep 706: Norman Hunter – A Leeds and England Legend
04/17
Ep 705: Covid-19 - The Long and Testing Road Ahead
04/16
Ep 704: Covid-19 – Facing a Mountain of National Debt, Can We Walk Away?
04/15
Ep 703: Battle of Britain - When Celtic beat Leeds 50 years ago today. John Giles remembers
04/14
Ep 702: Diarmaid Ferriter - Business as usual not an option after the Covid-19 crisis
04/13
Ep 701: Liam Brady - Italian Football in its Golden Era
04/11
Ep 700: Corrupt and Inept – Leaders Shame the Glory Game
04/10
Ep 699: A Divided Nation – Trump Fools Half The People All The Time
04/09
Ep 698: Covid-19 – No Happy Ending
04/09
Ep 697: Didi Hamann – Liverpool Wrong To Furlough Staff, Bundesliga Back In May?
04/08
Ep 696: Spain - Covid-19 Takes a Heavy Toll
04/07
Ep 695: COVID-19 Britain - The Wrong People In The Wrong Position At The Wrong Time
04/06
Ep 694: Death of a Gangland Hitman
04/06
Ep 693: Premier League Players Will do their Bit But Leadership is Sadly Lacking
04/03
Ep 692: Britain Pays The Price For Government By Slogan
04/02
Ep 691: Trump Exposed – America Tested Like Never Before
04/02
Ep 690: Covid-19 – Sweden Rolls The Dice

March 2020

33 episodes

03/31
Ep 689: Plunging into the unknown, no one knows where this will end
03/31
Ep 688: We Need Strong Government but that Won't Easily be Achieved
03/31
Ep 687: NOT TO BE MISSED!
03/30
Ep 686: Europe Must Unite or We Face Catastrophe
03/30
Ep 685: More Questions for John Delaney
03/27
Ep 684: Niall Stanage reports from Washington
03/27
Ep 683: Sweden - An Oasis Of Calm In A Troubled World
03/26
Ep 682: Covid-19 Special – Death, Despair, and No Easy Answer as Pandemic Sweeps the World
03/25
Ep 681: Covid-19 Lockdown Causes Dramatic Increase In Domestic Violence
03/24
Ep 680: Every Chance This Could End Badly
03/23
Ep 679: Decisive on the Economy Wavering on Health - Boris's Moment of Truth
03/23
Ep 678: Italy's Tragedy - Liam Brady and Paddy Agnew on the Country They Love
03/20
Ep 677: Recession Looms - Trump Could be in Trouble
03/20
Ep 676: Facing an Economic Wasteland if Governments Fail to Deal with Crisis
03/19
Ep 675: EU May Not Survive Covid-19 Economic Woes
03/18
Ep 674: Prof. Paddy Mallon - What You Need to Know about Covid-19
03/18
Ep 673: Britain discovering there is such a thing as society
03/17
Ep 672: Liverpool should be crowned champions but they need a stand-in goalkeeper
03/16
Ep 671: Biden on the Brink of Victory in Florida, But Covid-19 Chaos Overshadows All
03/16
Ep 670: Prof John Crown – Cheltenham was madness, an ounce of prevention is a pound of cure
03/16
Ep 669: Draconian Measures Work – The Lesson from Asia
03/13
Ep 668: Amid Coronavirus Fears, Trump and Merkel Hold Keys to the World Economy
03/11
Ep 664: Certain to Face Trump, Can Joe Biden Be America's Redemption?
03/10
Ep 663: Status Quo is not an Option for New Government.
03/09
Ep 662: Covid-19 Could Lead to Economic Devastation
03/09
Ep 661: Solskjaer deserves credit for Man U progress; Mourihno is yesterday's man
03/06
Ep 660: Biden Favourite To Face Trump But Comes With Risks Attached
03/05
Ep 659: Coronavirus - Economically Dangerous But Hard to Predict
03/05
Ep 658: Boris's New Britain - Confident, Autocratic, Dangerous
03/04
Ep 657: Game On - Biden Bounces Back
03/04
Ep 656: Spanish Giants in Steep Decline
03/03
Ep 655: Eamonn McCann: Can You Govern a State You Don't Recognise?
03/02
Ep 654: An Off Day for Liverpool, Bruno Fernandes Good but No Scholes

February 2020

33 episodes

02/28
Ep 653: Crunch Time for Bernie Sanders as Super Tuesday Looms
02/27
Ep 652: Unionist Fears Rise Following Sinn Féin Surge and As Mistrust of Boris Sets In
02/26
Ep 651: CAB Takes the War on Drugs to Rural Ireland
02/25
Ep 650: Champions League Special – Redemption for Real if they can overcome City
02/24
Ep 649: Six Nations - Last Tango In Paris for Ireland
02/24
Ep 648: VAR Shambles Must Be Reformed and Fair Play To Ole Gunnar Solskjaer
02/24
Ep 647: Boris' Britain – Johnson's New Order
02/21
Ep 646: Bloomberg Battered, Trump as Strong as He's Ever Been
02/21
Ep 645: Ireland's Triple Crown Challenge
02/19
Ep 644: Champions League Special – Didi Hamann on Sancho, City, and Neymar
02/19
Ep 643: 750m People in Coronavirus Lockdown – Peter Goff reports from China
02/18
Ep 642: Rui Pinto – The Man Exposing the Football Mafia
02/17
Ep 641: No Way Back for City in 'all out war' with UEFA
02/17
Ep 640: A Shattered Dream – John Giles & Liam Brady on City's UEFA woes
02/14
Ep 639: Trump on a roll, Bloomberg Looms in Democrat Race
02/14
Ep 638: Sinn Féin Sends Shiver Down Loyalist Spines
02/13
Ep 637: Burned – Exposing the Cash-For-Ash Scandal
02/12
Ep 636: Ireland back On track And ready for the next big test at Twickenham
02/11
Ep 635: All to play for, but economics will decide – Bertie Ahern on the election
02/11
Ep 634: Lionel Messi - Unhappy at Barca. Bound for Premier League?
02/10
Ep 633: After the Surge History Beckons
02/07
Ep 632: Six Nations - Ireland's Season on the Line
02/07
Ep 631: A Radical Green Agenda
02/06
Ep 630: Triumphant Trump, Chaotic Democrats
02/06
Ep 629: Election Special – Richard Boyd Barrett
02/05
Ep 628: Election Special – Eamon Ryan
02/05
Ep 627: The knockout blow – Media coverage of Election 2020
02/04
Ep 626: Ireland Booms and Suffers – we ask two economists why
02/04
Ep 625: Chaos In Iowa
02/04
Ep 624: Britain after Brexit - Changed, Changed Forever
02/03
Ep 623: Six Nations Rugby - A Tough Year for Ireland, says Neil Francis
02/03
Ep 622: Robert Fisk
02/01
Ep 621: Sanders Surges as Biden Falters

January 2020

26 episodes

01/31
Ep 620: Election Special – Micheál Martin, Leader of Fianna Fáil
01/30
Ep 619: A New Dawn for Irish Rugby
01/29
Ep 618: Is there an alternative to civil war politics?
01/29
Ep 617: The Pension Debate – A French Perspective
01/28
Ep 616: High Stakes Poker – How Elections are Won and Lost
01/27
Ep 615: The Death of An American Icon
01/24
Ep 614: Trump Safe, Sanders the Democrat to watch
01/24
Ep 613: Liverpool – Ability and Attitude in footballing harmony
01/23
Ep 612: Britain after Brexit
01/21
Ep 611: The drug-crime crisis – brazen killers, under resourced Gardaí, and a new cartel in Dublin
01/20
Ep 610: Trump Impeached; Democrats Divided
01/20
Ep 609: John Giles talks to Eamon about the weekend football
01/17
Ep 608: The health crisis: where does the buck stop?
01/17
Ep 607: Surfing the Green Wave
01/16
Ep 606: Murder of 17-year-old Keane Mulready-Woods Crosses a Line
01/15
Ep 605: Crisis At Barcelona
01/14
Ep 604: Election Special – The Most Important Contest Since Haughey v FitzGerald
01/13
Ep 603: Liverpool Confirm their Champion's Mentality, Man City's Ruthless Rout at Aston Villa
01/13
Ep 602: The Happy Brexiteer – Brendan O'Neill sees a bright future for Britain
01/10
Ep 601: Donald Does It His Way – Will It Work?
01/09
Ep 600: Mark Tighe on the FAI – New appointments, same old problems
01/08
Ep 599: Facebook – Scarier Than The Department of Defense
01/07
Ep 598: Save the planet, commit political suicide
01/06
Ep 597: US / Iran tensions escalate - Niall Stanage reports on the mood in Washington
01/06
Ep 596: Pogba, the most important person in Old Trafford and Solskjaer, on the way out
01/04
Ep 595: One Man's Terrorist – A Political History of the IRA

December 2019

19 episodes

12/23
Ep 594: SDLP on the rise, Sinn Féin and Corbyn Slump
12/20
Ep 593: Trump Impeached – Democrats Own Goal?
12/20
Ep 592: Two tribes as far apart as ever – Billy Hutchinson on the world post-Boris
12/19
Ep 591: The Dangers and Opportunities of Brexit
12/19
Ep 590: Cartels Under Pressure; Can the Lunney case be cracked?
12/18
Ep 589: A Bloody Ugly Picture
12/17
Ep 588: Warning! Strong language in this podcast – Eamon interviews the Waterford Whisperer
12/16
Ep 587: Shocking Arsenal Decline; No Stopping Liverpool
12/13
Ep 586: The Boris Revolution
12/12
Ep 585: New trade deal a big win for Trump, Democrats struggle to find a candidate
12/10
Ep 584: No Love for Boris, And No Border Poll on Loyalist Agenda
12/10
Ep 583: FAI in Crisis - More and Worse to Come
12/09
Ep 582: Didi and Eamon review the weekend soccer and the crisis at Bayern Munich
12/09
Ep 581: Change our ways or die – The climate change challenges facing Ireland
12/06
Ep 580: Surviving Denis O'Brien and dealing with a media in crisis
12/06
Ep 579: Trump – Impeached in December, Vindicated in January, Elected in November?
12/05
Ep 578: The Most Important UK Election for Decades
12/03
Ep 577: Brexiteers holding their nose and voting for Boris
12/02
Ep 576: Liverpool out of reach - City can't catch them and Leicester won't

November 2019

28 episodes

11/29
Ep 575: Bloomberg Enters The Race – Democrats in Trouble Despite Impeachment Hearings
11/29
Ep 574: Hong Kongers Back the Protestors According to Poll
11/28
Ep 573: Live Fast Die Young
11/28
Ep 572: The Great Enlightenment - Sarah Keane, President, Olympic Federation of Ireland
11/27
Ep 571: Joe Schmidt – Great Coach, Pity About the Book
11/26
Ep 570: We Have To Be Honest – No Easy Fix for Housing Crisis
11/25
Ep 569: Manchester United in trouble; Liverpool in a class of their own
11/22
Ep 568: Suspects questioned over Kenny Lunney assault.
11/21
Ep 567: Impeachment - Trump Faces Damning Evidence
11/21
Ep 566: British General Election - Outcome Remains Unclear
11/20
Ep 565: Hong Kong - A City On The Edge
11/20
Ep 564: Pochettino Out And The Special One In
11/19
Ep 563: Our Best Performance in Years
11/19
Ep 562: Minister for Finance Paschal Donohoe on Power and Responsibility
11/18
Ep 561: The Murder of Mr Moonlight
11/15
Ep 560: Brexit Election – Confusion Abounds
11/14
Ep 559: Trump Impeachment – No Smoking Gun Yet
11/13
Ep 558: Our Water Woes – No End In Sight
11/12
Ep 557: Dublin Jimmy – The Ugly face of border anarchy
11/11
Ep 556: Liverpool Crush City – Is the title race over already?
11/08
Ep 555: The Donald – Bad news on The Hill, good news in the polls
11/08
Ep 554: The Biggest Game of the Season (So Far)
11/08
Ep 553: Ireland's Showman – Colm Tóibín on Gay Byrne
11/07
Ep 552: The torture of Kevin Lunney: are border criminals above the law?
11/06
Ep 551: Brexit at Risk as Leavers Divide
11/05
Ep 550: Brexit lies will come back to haunt us all, Chris Johns tells Eamon
11/04
Ep 549: VAR must be reformed - Eamon and John differ on soccer's big question
11/01
Ep 548: Trump Impeachment Gathers Momentum – Does it matter when the economy is booming?

October 2019

29 episodes

10/31
Ep 547: Robert Fisk on Trump, Journalism, and the Middle East
10/30
Ep 546: Draghi saved the Euro, can Lagarde save the Eurozone?
10/29
Ep 545: The end of the Joe Schmidt era, and the future under Farrell
10/28
Ep 544: Liverpool look good for the title, Pochettino should leave White Hart Lane
10/25
Ep 543: Republicans Stand By Trump
10/25
Ep 542: No Going Back To Normal After Brexit
10/23
Ep 541: Phil Coulter – The Music Man
10/22
Ep 540: Eamonn McCann on Brexit – Boris Betrays the Unionists
10/22
Ep 539: No Quick End to Catalan Troubles
10/21
Ep 538: Found Wanting Again – Ireland's Rugby World Cup is over
10/21
Ep 537: Premier League Review – VAR not yet working
10/18
Ep 536: Ireland Can Win
10/18
Ep 535: Bertie Ahern on Brexit – Win or lose for Boris, the real challenges lie ahead
10/17
Ep 534: Troubles Mount for Trump
10/16
Ep 533: Euro Soccer - Ireland left hoping for a big night against the Danes
10/16
Ep 532: Protection at a price – how taxpayers' money ended up in criminal hands
10/14
Ep 531: Crunch time for Mick McCarthy
10/14
Ep 530: Rugby World Cup – Neil Francis reviews a stormy weekend
10/11
Ep 529: A bad week for Trump, and the Kurds
10/10
Ep 528: Brexit - Leavers pin their hopes on Boris!
10/09
Ep 527: Crime Profile – George 'The Penguin' Mitchell
10/08
Ep 526: Athletics in the frame, but is any sport clean?
10/08
Ep 525: Ireland's Continuing Shame – the legacy of the Mother and Baby homes
10/07
Ep 524: Premier League Review
10/07
Ep 523: British Brexit Proposal – Very bad news for the North
10/04
Ep 522: The Donald – This time it's serious
10/04
Ep 521: Down but not quite out – Ireland's Rugby World Cup continues
10/01
Ep 520: Stardust Tragedy – Will the new inquest get the truth at last?
10/01
Ep 519: Brexit Britain – a failed state?

September 2019

30 episodes

09/30
Ep 518: John Giles and Eamon review the Premier League and disagree about 'Pep'
09/30
Ep 517: John Delaney resigns but this story isn't over
09/29
Ep 516: Rugby World Cup Special – Shocked by Japan, but still in the ball game
09/27
Ep 515: Climate Change - Good intentions are not enough
09/26
Ep 514: Trump Impeachment – Will it help or hurt the Democrats?
09/26
Ep 513: Can the Greens take a seat in Mayo? Saoirse McHugh tells us why she's willing to try
09/24
Ep 512: Soccer Special – Spanish giants in trouble
09/24
Ep 511: Brexit Special – British Supreme Court triggers a 'constitutional earthquake'
09/23
Ep 510: Time's up for Solskjaer as Manchester United slide towards mid-table
09/23
Ep 509: Ireland makes the perfect start
09/20
Ep 508: Trump re-election no forlorn hope; Democrats could implode
09/20
Ep 507: Rugby World Cup Preview – Neil Francis gives Ireland a chance
09/19
Ep 506: Brexit Crisis – Does anyone believe in Boris?
09/18
Ep 505: The People's Game – Rotten to the core
09/17
Ep 504: Still Dicing With Death – The Government fails to close the Priory Hall loophole
09/16
Ep 503: Brexit Crisis – Our backstop consensus is wrong
09/16
Ep 502: 'You Can't Fake Belief' – Liverpool on a roll, but City don't show up
09/13
Ep 501: Brexit – A Remainer's lament?
09/13
Ep 500: Climate change – the nuclear option?
09/11
Ep 499: Brexit Crisis - Anger and Chaos in Westminster
09/11
Ep 498: Hawk, John Bolton, leaves Trump's White House
09/10
Ep 497: Bertie Ahern on Brexit – In a dangerous time, the next two weeks are vital
09/09
Ep 496: Chef Mark Moriarty
09/06
Ep 495: Ruthless Schmidt chops Toner
09/06
Ep 494: Ireland Win A Fighting Point; Lionel Messi's Barca Contract
09/06
Ep 493: Harry Crosbie - The Comeback Kid
09/05
Ep 492: Brexit Crisis. Boris Johnson - vicious and trapped
09/03
Ep 491: The Downfall of 'Bomber' Kavanagh and death in Drogheda
09/02
Ep 490: Premier League Review
09/02
Ep 489: Colm Tóibín – "Boris Johnson seems to be a born bluffer"

August 2019

23 episodes

08/30
Ep 488: Trump re-election looks less secure
08/30
Ep 487: Eoin 'Bomber' Liston – Kerry Can Take Sam
08/28
Ep 486: Brexit - Boris pulls an audacious stroke
08/27
Ep 485: Brexit – Facing up to the cliff-edge
08/27
Ep 484: Brexit Chaos Looming for Irish Retailers
08/27
Ep 483: Ireland's Rugby World Cup hopes look bleak
08/26
Ep 482: Ole Gunnar Solskjær won't last; Pochettino should leave 'Spurs
08/22
Ep 481: Bad news for Trump - Greenland is not for sale and shadows loom over the economy
08/21
Ep 480: Brexit – A Dangerous Time for Ireland
08/21
Ep 479: Failed by the system. Stephen Teap on the loss of his wife Irene
08/20
Ep 478: Climate Change - Business as usual no longer an option. The Nuclear alternative.
08/19
Ep 477: Brexit - As no deal chaos looms Britain's political system falls apart
08/19
Ep 476: Premier League review
08/16
Ep 475: Minister for Finance Paschal Donohoe on Brexit – Europe Won't Let Us Down
08/15
Ep 474: Tug-of-war for Neymar as Spanish football descends into soap opera
08/14
Ep 473: A profile of Nigel Farage – the man who could still be decisive in the Brexit saga
08/12
Ep 472: Jeffrey Epstein - A sordid story of sex, power and immunity in the USA
08/12
Ep 471: Pogba delivers as Manchester United destroys Chelsea
08/09
Ep 470: Brexit - Unprecedented chaos in the event of no deal
08/07
Ep 469: Spanish giants fight back
08/07
Ep 468: Previewing the Premier League season
08/06
Ep 467: Brexit - Brexiteers don't trust Boris
08/05
Ep 466: No gun law change despite the horror of Dayton and El Paso

July 2019

15 episodes

07/19
Ep 465: Bob Dylan - like nobody else
07/18
Ep 464: "I'm a bit frightened" – Bertie Ahern on Brexit
07/18
Ep 463: A Conspiracy Of Lies - A novel set in the wake of the Dublin-Monaghan bombings
07/17
Ep 462: Is time up for the Kinahan Cartel?
07/16
Ep 461: Trump plays the race card
07/12
Ep 460: Brexit – Facing calamity but still in denial
07/12
Ep 459: The Donald – Looking good for re-election?
07/11
Ep 458: Stephen Kenny – Passionate and Optimistic
07/10
Ep 457: Brexit – Back From The Brink
07/09
Ep 456: The Beatles - the band that changed the world
07/08
Ep 455: Jack Charlton profile
07/05
Ep 454: Trump - Damaging America and the world
07/03
Ep 453: The Housing Crisis – a government paralysed; a generation betrayed
07/02
Ep 452: From Beef to Bankers to the Backstop
07/01
Ep 451: Manchester United – A great club in decline

June 2019

20 episodes

06/28
Ep 450: Biden falters in Democrats' race to take on Trump
06/28
Ep 449: FAI Under Pressure
06/27
Ep 448: A profile of Roy Keane
06/26
Ep 447: Brexit - the looming catastrophe. Chris Johns talks to Eamon
06/24
Ep 446: Cocaine - in a pub or restaurant near you
06/24
Ep 445: Meltdown at Westminster as Brexit and Boris push Britain closer to the brink
06/20
Ep 444: Donald Trump launches his bid for a second term
06/20
Ep 443: Real Madrid and Barcelona – The Spanish giants spend big
06/19
Ep 442: Cervical Check scandal - The fight for justice with solicitor Cian O'Carroll
06/18
Ep 441: Speeding towards the cliff edge - the Brexit calamity looming
06/17
Ep 440: Bombers rule at the US Open golf
06/14
Ep 439: Trump trains his sights on the 2020 Presidential Election
06/13
Ep 438: Boris Johnson - The troubling rise of Tory populism
06/12
Ep 437: Brexit - The dangers facing Ireland, Europe and Britain from nostalgic Tories
06/11
Ep 436: Ireland's Cocaine Epidemic – Who makes the money, and how much?
06/10
Ep 435: John Giles and Liam Brady review the international weekend with Eamon
06/07
Ep 434: Body in Europe, mind back home – The Donald survives his old world adventure
06/06
Ep 433: Boris – The Tories' unlikely saviour
06/03
Ep 432: Playing politics with justice
06/03
Ep 431: Liverpool's Champions League triumph

May 2019

30 episodes

05/31
Ep 430: How to manage Trump, a problem for Democrats and Republicans
05/31
Ep 429: The Ian Bailey trial
05/31
Ep 428: Champions League final preview and Europa League final review
05/29
Ep 427: Another gangland killing
05/29
Ep 426: Preview of the Europa League Final
05/28
Ep 425: Brexit: Tories on the edge of the abyss. Britain divided as never before.
05/27
Ep 424: The Gucci Gang's demise
05/27
Ep 423: Real Madrid and Barcelona: Spanish giants in meltdown
05/24
Ep 422: First time author, Ian Maleney, speaks about Minor Monuments.
05/24
Ep 421: The politics of insult: governance as farce in Washington.
05/22
Ep 420: Ian Bailey faces French justice
05/21
Ep 419: No winners, Ireland included
05/20
Ep 418: Patricia McKenna on the Euro Elections.
05/20
Ep 417: Man City - very good but not great. Pep gets angry at the post-Cup Final press conference.
05/17
Ep 416: Trump takes the fight to America's enemies.
05/16
Ep 415: Is Kerry about to give up its darkest secret?
05/14
Ep 414: Brexit - Nigel Farage calling all the shots.
05/14
Ep 413: The FAI's troubles: FIFA arrives in Dublin.
05/13
Ep 412: Spanish soccer giants in troubling decline.
05/13
Ep 411: A great Premier League season.
05/10
Ep 410: Niall Stanage on Trump, tariffs, trade battle with China and the 2020 Election.
05/10
Ep 409: Neil Francis on Leinster's bid for the Champions Cup.
05/10
Ep 408: English Football's Amazing Week
05/09
Ep 407: Climate change - is it too late?
05/08
Ep 406: Growing fears about the Drogheda gangland feud.
05/07
Ep 405: Still all to play for
05/03
Ep 404: War on The Hill. Niall Stanage reports
05/03
Ep 403: Nicola Tallant talks to Eamon about the trial of Patrick Quirke.
05/03
Ep 402: Liverpool can still reach the Champions League Final
05/02
Ep 401: Clare Daly on why she seeks her future in Europe.

April 2019

24 episodes

04/30
Ep 400: Paul Howard on the loving of Liverpool
04/29
Ep 399: Solskjaer should drop de Gea and get rid of Pogba.
04/26
Ep 398: John Giles and Liam Brady review the week's Premier League games.
04/26
Ep 397: Niall Stanage on Joe Biden's bid for the Democratic nomination.
04/24
Ep 396: Brexit - threatening the established political order in the UK.
04/24
Ep 395: Old Failures, New IRA. Eamonn McCann reports from Derry.
04/23
Ep 394: The New IRA, who are they and what happens next?
04/23
Ep 393: Manchester United: History repeats itself
04/19
Ep 392: Mueller Report - winners and losers
04/19
Ep 391: Liverpool can win the double
04/18
Ep 390: More troubling allegations of Garda misconduct
04/18
Ep 389: French citizenship and the infinite sadness of the Notre Dame Inferno
04/15
Ep 388: Tiger Woods - Sport's greatest story?
04/15
Ep 387: Liam Brady and John Giles talk to Eamon about the week's soccer
04/15
Ep 386: John Delaney and the latest on the unfolding FAI scandal
04/12
Ep 385: Didi Hamann and John Giles on this week's Champions League games.
04/11
Ep 384: Brexit - Patricia McKenna talks to Eamon
04/10
Ep 383: A nation humbled - Britain's Brexit chaos.
04/10
Ep 382: Uncertainty and chaos - Brexit with 48 hours to the deadline.
04/08
Ep 381: Football with John Giles and Liam Brady
04/04
Ep 380: Brexit - Mistake after Mistake
04/03
Ep 379: John Delaney, uncut
04/02
Ep 378: Mueller – a win for the Donald?
04/01
Ep 377: Eamon's back and talking to John Giles and Didi Hamann.

March 2019

21 episodes

03/29
Ep 376: "They have no understanding how catastrophic 'no deal' would be".
03/29
Ep 375: B-Day disaster for Brexiteers
03/26
Ep 374: Seeking justice for the killing of Shane O'Farrell
03/26
Ep 373: Mueller report - the verdict
03/21
Ep 372: Niall Stanage reports from Washington
03/20
Ep 371: No deal Brexit looms large
03/19
Ep 370: The Internet: friend or deadly foe? Dash Winterson talks to Eamon.
03/18
Ep 369: Premier League and FA Cup review with John Giles and Liam Brady.
03/18
Ep 368: Neil Francis reviews the 2019 Six Nations with Mick Clifford
03/15
Ep 367: Niall Stanage reports from Washington.
03/15
Ep 366: Brexit - Brendan O'Neill of Spiked Online talks to Mick Clifford.
03/14
Ep 365: Champions League with John Giles and Liam Brady
03/12
Ep 364: Facebook - Start-up engineer Dash Winterson talks to Eamon
03/11
Ep 363: Premier League review with John Giles
03/08
Ep 362: Champions League review
03/07
Ep 361: Neil Francis on why Ireland will beat France this Sunday
03/06
Ep 360: Niall Stanage reports from Washington
03/04
Ep 359: The Border. The key piece in the Brexit jigsaw.
03/04
Ep 358: John Giles and Liam Brady review the weekend's Premier League with Hugh Cahill
03/01
Ep 357: Niall Stanage reports from Washington.
03/01
Ep 356: Crisis at Real Madrid

February 2019

25 episodes

02/28
Ep 355: Chaos at Westminster: a brexiteer's view.
02/27
Ep 354: Winners and losers in the Brexit drama
02/26
Ep 353: Brexit - the nightmare scenario
02/25
Ep 352: Didi Hamann and John Giles review weekend soccer.
02/22
Ep 351: Crunch time for Liverpool
02/21
Ep 350: Regency trial collapses
02/20
Ep 349: Why the Sean Fitzpatrick trial collapsed
02/18
Ep 348: Trump's State of Emergency attacked by friend and foe alike.
02/18
Ep 347: A defining week for Man U, Liverpool, Man City and Chelsea
02/17
Ep 346: From hero to (almost) zero, Macron fights for his political life.
02/15
Ep 345: Brexit: No deal crash out looms large.
02/13
Ep 344: Jeff Bezos goes to war with the National Enquirer and Donald Trump
02/13
EP 343: Champions League and Gordon Banks
02/13
Ep 342: Government in crisis over Children's Hospital
02/12
Ep 341: Champions League with Didi Hamann
02/12
Ep 340: Can we prepare for Brexit?
02/11
Ep 339: Man City and Liverpool back to their best
02/08
Ep 338: Big news ahead of Scotland clash
02/07
Ep 337: The National Children's Hospital - a joke, but no fun
02/06
Ep 336: The State of Trump's Union
02/05
Ep 335: Liverpool feeling the pressure?
02/05
Ep 334: The Regency attack - 3 years on
02/04
Ep 333: Pressure building in the Premier League title race
02/01
Ep 332: Liverpool still favourites for the Premier League
02/01
Ep 331: Rugby - Ireland can beat England and win the World Cup

January 2019

21 episodes

01/30
Ep 330: Brexit – no good options for Ireland
01/29
Ep 329: The Donald: No longer in his comfort zone.
01/28
Ep 328: Manchester United's spectacular revival.
01/25
Ep 327: Brexit: will Europe throw Ireland to the wolves?
01/24
Ep 326: Trump: Fighting on all fronts.
01/22
Ep 325: No sign of peace in drug related killings
01/21
Ep 324: Didi Hamann and John Giles
01/18
Ep 323: Vicky Phelan - Fighting for her life
01/16
Ep 322: Shane Ross is not helping with Brexit preparations
01/16
Ep 321: Brendan O'Neill
01/15
Ep 320: Trump says he's not a Russian spy
01/15
Ep 319: What will Brexit cost Ireland?
01/14
Ep 318: Onwards and upwards for Manchester United
01/13
Ep 317: Karl Deeter
01/10
Ep 316: Can Macron survive the Gilets Jaunes?
01/10
Ep 315: Trump ups the stakes over the wall
01/09
Ep 314: Dermot Gilleece on Pádraig Harrington
01/08
Ep 313: Another Garda whistleblower emerges
01/07
Ep 312: The sad death of a great English occasion
01/04
Ep 311: Trump faces unwelcome change
01/04
Ep 310: Football with Liam Brady

December 2018

22 episodes

12/31
Ep 309: Who's Elon Musk and why is everyone talking about him?
12/31
Ep 308: Liverpool or Manchester City?
12/23
Ep 307: What's wrong with Rory?
12/26
Ep 306: Hugh Cahill
12/21
Ep 303: Ted Walsh
12/24
Ep 305: Liam Brady & the weekend soccer review
12/21
Ep 302: Jo Spain
12/20
Ep 301: CAB hits its targets
12/20
Ep 300: The walls close in on Trump
12/18
Ep 299: Imports, Exports and Brexit
12/18
Ep 298: Mourinho gets the bullet
12/17
Ep 297: Didi Hamann on Liverpool v Manchester Utd and the Champions League draw
12/17
Ep 296: Premier League review
12/14
Ep 295: Trump - the net tightens
12/14
Ep 294: Champions League review
12/13
Ep 293: Bertie Ahern on Brexit
12/11
Ep 292: More startling disclosures in the INM story
12/10
Ep 291: The weekend's Premier League review with Liam Brady & John Giles
12/07
Ep 290: Europe - Truth, lies and threats
12/06
Ep 289: Special Counsel Mueller closes in
12/06
Ep 288: Premier League no foregone conclusion for City
12/03
Ep 287: Euro 2020 draw, the end of Mourinho and Arsenal’s extraordinary revival

November 2018

24 episodes

11/30
Ep 286: Trump's woes worsen
11/29
Ep 285: Another whistleblowing scandal?
11/27
Ep 284: Tom Lyons
11/26
Ep 283: Mick McCarthy & the Premier League
11/23
Ep 282: No Thanksgiving ceasefire for Trump
11/23
Ep 281: Who is going to pick the next Ireland manager?
11/22
Ep 280: Colm Tóibín
11/21
Ep 279: Hitmen for hire
11/20
Ep 278: O'Neill's Ireland Hits Rock Bottom
11/19
Ep 277: Rugby's Beautiful Night
11/16
Ep 276: Neil Francis
11/16
Ep 275: Time to look at John Delaney
11/15
Ep 274: More chaos in the White House
11/14
Ep 273: Maurice McCabe the final say
11/12
Ep 272: Mourinho a busted flush
11/11
Ep 271: Nicola Tallant
11/09
Ep 270: Trump drama continues
11/08
Ep 269: Live rugby special
11/08
Ep 268: Bernadette Devlin McAliskey
11/06
Ep 267: Stuart Carolan
11/06
Ep 266: Premier League with Didi Hamann and John Giles
11/01
Ep 265: Frank McDonald
11/01
Ep 264: John Connors
11/01
Ep 263: Mid-terms loom for Trump and the Democrats

October 2018

23 episodes

10/31
Ep 262: Maurice McCabe leaves the Gardai
10/30
Ep 261: Brazil elects a fascist
10/29
Ep 260: Femmes Fatales
10/26
Ep 259: Big trouble at Real Madrid
10/25
Ep 258: Trump's enemies in the firing line
10/24
Ep 257: The last word on the Charleton Report
10/23
Ep 256: Justice for Duck Egg
10/22
Ep 255: Premier League and tennis balls
10/19
Ep 254: The Notorious and Rory McIlroy
10/18
Ep 253: Trump's Saudi dilemma
10/17
Ep 252: Ireland hit the wall
10/16
Ep 251: O'Neill and Keane on the brink
10/16
Ep 250: Johnny Sexton
10/14
Ep 249: Paddy Cosgrave
10/12
Ep 248: Sergeant Maurice McCabe vindicated
10/11
Ep 247: The case for Conor McGregor and MMA
10/09
Ep 246: A good week for Donald Trump
10/09
Ep 245: Premier League review
10/05
Ep 244: Kerry babies case reopened
10/05
Ep 243: Premier League preview
10/03
Ep 242: Washington waits on FBI report
10/02
Ep 241: Football with John Giles
10/02
Ep 240: Matt Cooper on turbulent times for Michael O'Leary

September 2018

21 episodes

09/28
Ep 239: Brexit - a UK perspective
09/27
Ep 238: Ryder Cup preview
09/27
Ep 237: Brexit – an Irish perspective
09/25
Ep 236: Is Denis O'Brien about to bag another big state contract?
09/25
Ep 235: Trump fights on all fronts
09/25
Ep 234: Premier League review
09/20
Ep 233: The vultures feasting on Ireland's misery
09/20
Ep 232: What happened to Sean Cavanagh?
09/20
Ep 231: Man City can't win the Champions League
09/19
Ep 230: CAB's crusade against the Kinahan cartel
09/17
Ep 229: Premier League Weekend Review
09/17
Ep 228: Trump's Worst Day Yet
09/14
Ep 227: The Scally Report - Misogyny, Incompetence and Worse
09/10
Ep 226: The Final Atrocity in Syria's Long War
09/10
Ep 225: The Rise of Sweden's Far Right
09/10
Ep 224: Ireland's beating in Wales & Roy Keane's future with the Irish soccer team
09/06
Ep 223: Independent Newspapers lose big in the High Court
09/06
Ep 222: Without Reform Gaelic Football is Dying
09/05
Ep 221: Trump's worst week ever?
09/05
Ep 220: Arsenal, Spurs and Harry Arter
09/04
Ep 219: Fat Freddie gets life

August 2018

15 episodes

08/31
Ep 218: Mick Clifford
08/30
Ep 217: No way back for Mourinho
08/28
Ep 216: After the Papal visit
08/28
Ep 215: Mourinho meltdown - can he survive?
08/27
Ep 214: The rise of nativism in Sweden
08/24
Ep 213: Trouble brewing for Trump
08/23
Ep 212: David Quinn
08/22
Ep 211: Robert Fisk on the age of Trump
08/21
Ep 210: Mourinho situation pressing at United
08/17
Ep 209: BP Fallon on Aretha Franklin
08/17
Ep 208: Father Peter McVerry
08/16
Ep 207: Liverpool the biggest challengers to Man City dominance
08/14
Ep 206: Trump - Unhinged
08/10
Ep 205: Premier League preview
08/06
Ep 204: Mario Rosenstock

July 2018

13 episodes

07/28
Ep 203: In conversation with John Giles – Part 3
07/25
Ep 202: The Trump presidency reviewed
07/24
Ep 201: Brexit - even the good news is bad
07/20
Ep 200: In conversation with John Giles – Part 2
07/17
Ep 199: Trump's astonishing Helsinki press conference
07/16
Ep 198: France win the World Cup
07/13
Ep 197: World Cup final preview
07/10
Ep 196: Trump heads to Europe
07/09
Ep 195: World Cup semi-finals
07/05
EP 194: Richard Dunne
07/04
Ep 193: Mick Clifford, The Disclosures Tribunal, and Varadkar's comments
07/04
Ep 192: World Cup - Is it coming home?
07/03
Ep 191: World Cup special

June 2018

17 episodes

06/29
Ep 190: Niall Stanage
06/29
Ep 189: World Cup knock-out rounds confirmed
06/27
Ep 188: World Cup round-up
06/26
Ep 187: The Cervical Cancer Debacle
06/22
Ep 186: World Cup round-up
06/22
Ep 185: Disclosures Tribunal nears the end
06/19
Ep 184: Gary Hutch killer convicted
06/18
Ep 183: World Cup Special
06/15
Ep 182: The media at the Disclosures Tribunal
06/15
Ep 181: World Cup Special - Spanish crisis
06/14
Ep 180: Football – Live in Cork with Tesco Finest
06/13
Ep 179: Little Rocket Man, Big Rocket Man
06/09
Ep 178: Mick Clifford – Disclosures Tribunal overview
06/07
Ep 177: Simon Carswell on David Drumm and Anglo
06/05
Ep 176: Robert Ballagh
06/01
Ep 175: Another wild week in Washington
06/01
Ep 174: Football bonus episode

May 2018

14 episodes

05/30
Ep 173: Italian crisis pushes EU to the brink
05/28
Ep 172: Champions League final review
05/25
Ep 171: Disclosures Tribunal update
05/25
Ep 170: Champions League final preview
05/23
Ep 169: Niall Stanage on Trump and North Korea
05/18
Ep 168: Former commissioner Callinan takes the stand
05/17
Ep 167b: 8th Amendment Referendum: Una Mullally (YES)
05/17
Ep 167a: 8th Amendment Referendum: John Waters (NO)
05/16
Ep 166: Premier League review & FA Cup final preview
05/11
Ep 165: Mick Clifford
05/09
Ep 164: Eddie Molloy on the Irish culture of impunity
05/08
Ep 163: Donald Trump for the Nobel Peace Prize!
05/03
Ep 162: Liam Brady on Arsène Wenger's departure & the Champions League Semi-Finals
05/01
Ep 161: Nicola Tallant on a new generation of Limerick gangs

April 2018

13 episodes

04/25
Ep 160: Sam Smyth
04/24
Ep 159: Spurs going nowhere + Champions League and Arsene Wenger
04/21
Ep 158: BP Fallon on The Rolling Stones and Big Tom
04/20
Ep 157: Mick Clifford on the INM controversy
04/18
Ep 156: Trump, Comey and continuing chaos in the White House
04/17
Ep 155: Man City win the Premier League
04/13
Ep 154: Alarming evidence at the Disclosures Tribunal
04/12
Ep 153: Zuckerberg talks to Congress, Trump talks war
04/11
Ep 152: How Rory McIlroy lost the Masters
04/10
Ep 151: Champions League preview special
04/05
Ep 150: The crisis at Independent Newspapers
04/05
Ep 149: No Pep in City's step - Champions League special
04/04
Ep 148: Christy Dignam - the full story

March 2018

10 episodes

03/30
Ep 147: A conservative view
03/27
Ep 145: Michael O'Flynn not optimistic on the housing crisis
03/22
Ep 144: Trump on the attack
03/20
Ep 143: Mourinho proves his critics right
03/14
Ep 141: More mayhem in the White House
03/14
Ep 140: Mourinho's Champions League failure
03/13
Ep 139: Gordon D'Arcy
03/10
Ep 138: The Donald, the trade war, and the porn star
03/09
Ep 137: Mick Clifford - Turning tragedy into farce?
03/06
Ep 136: Italian voters reject Europe and their own elite

February 2018

10 episodes

02/27
Ep 135: It's the end for Arsene Wenger
02/20
Ep 134: Niall Stanage from Washington
02/20
Ep 132a: Exclusive - Wigan manager Paul Cook
02/20
Ep 132: Champions League special
02/16
Ep 131: Housing crisis – the truth behind the slogans
02/13
Ep 129: Mick Clifford on the Disclosures Tribunal
02/09
Ep 128: Conor Brady on newspapers and the guards
02/07
Ep 127: Football – the battle for the top four, and much more
02/06
Ep 126: Trump v the FBI - a fight to the death
02/02
Ep 125: A passionate defence of Pep Guardiola

January 2018

11 episodes

01/30
Ep 124: The year of the the Donald
01/30
Ep 123: The long, lonely road of Maurice McCabe
01/25
Ep 122: The Dapper Don is finished
01/23
Ep 121: Liverpool do it again
01/19
Ep 120: Eddie Hobbs
01/19
Ep 119: The crisis at Real Madrid with Richard Fitzpatrick
01/16
Ep 118: Mick Clifford on the Disclosures Tribunal
01/12
Ep 117: From Charleton to Bannon
01/10
Ep 116: Alice Leahy on the homeless crisis
01/05
Ep 115: Fire and Fury
01/05
Ep 114: City for the title, Mourinho for Paris

December 2017

8 episodes

12/28
Ep 113: Robert Fisk on Trump and the Middle East
12/22
Ep 112: Paul Kimmage on Chris Froome
12/19
Ep 111: Simon Carswell - a reporter's story from Anglo to Washington
12/14
Ep 110: Man City's dominance continues, but can they win the Champions League?
12/12
Ep 109: Bertie Ahern on Brexit
12/07
Ep 108: Trump on a roll
12/05
Ep 107: Katy French – Death and drugs, then and now
12/01
Ep 106: Joe Brolly uncut

November 2017

6 episodes

11/28
Ep 105: Frances Fitzgerald on the brink
11/24
Ep 104: Stick or twist with Martin O'Neill?
11/21
Ep 103: Father Peter McVerry on his despair at the government's approach to the housing crisis
11/16
Ep 102: Life inside the White House press room
11/13
Ep 101: Are we going to Russia?
11/10
Ep 100: The battle for the soul of An Garda Síochána

October 2017

10 episodes

10/31
Ep 98: All the President's Men Face Criminal Charges
10/27
Ep 97: Didi Hamann on Bayern Munich's Situation & the Problems at Liverpool
10/24
Ep 96: David Hall, CEO of Irish Mortgage Holders, on Ireland's Delinquent Bankers
10/20
Ep 95: Colm Tóibín on the Crisis in Catalonia
10/17
Ep 94: Liverpool and Manchester United's Disappointing Stalemate
10/13
Ep 93: Donald Trump - How to Lose Friends & Make More Enemies
10/10
Ep 92: Clare Daly - A Radical View of Ireland
10/09
Ep 91: Lessons from Moldova, a Lifeline from Scotland and Everything to Play for in Cardiff
10/06
Ep 90: Tony Connelly on Brexit & All You Need to Know About the UK Leaving the EU
10/03
Ep 89: Guardiola Wins the Battle of Wits & Liverpool Fluff Their Lines Again

September 2017

11 episodes

09/29
Ep 88: Paul Howard on 20 Years of Ross O'Carroll Kelly
09/26
Ep 87: Official Ireland's Campaign to Destroy Sgt. Maurice McCabe
09/21
Ep 86: Conor McGregor - Paul Kimmage on the Fascinating Story Behind the Hype
09/19
Ep 85: Hillary by the Book
09/19
Ep 84: Eamon and John Giles on the Premier League
09/15
Ep 83: Karl Deeter - Refunds, Rebates and Shopping Around
09/12
Ep 82: Oliver Callan
09/12
Ep 81: Eamon, John and Liam on the Premier League weekend
09/08
Ep 80: Ireland - A Socialist View
09/05
Ep 79: A Humbling in Tbilisi
09/01
Ep 78: The Housing Crisis - No End in Sight

August 2017

9 episodes

08/29
Ep 77: Abortion - A Pro Life View with Maria Steen
08/25
Ep 76: Nicola Tallant on the Brutal Murder of a Mother of Six
08/22
Ep 75: Is Pep Guardiola a Mad Scientist?
08/18
Ep 74: Ireland - A Conservative View
08/15
Ep 73: Brady, Hamann & Giles on the Premier League Weekend
08/11
Ep 72: The Premier League Preview
08/08
Ep 71: Robert Fisk on War, 40 Years in Beirut and Trump (Repeat)
08/04
Ep 70: Paul Kimmage - Hunting Lance Armstrong (Repeat)
08/01
Ep 69: In Conversation with Stephen Rae

July 2017

8 episodes

07/26
Ep 68: Trump, Russia and the Looming US Constitutional Crisis
07/24
Ep 67: Disclosures Tribunal - A Special with Mick Clifford
07/21
Ep 66: In Conversation with Ronan O'Gara
07/18
Ep 65: Kevin Myers - The Man Behind the Byline
07/13
Ep 64: Exclusive - The Latest in Donald Trump's Crazy World
07/11
Ep 63: Mick Clifford on the Extraordinary Evidence at the Charleton Tribunal
07/07
Ep 62: Emmet Kirwan on Heartbreak, Riot and Leading the Rise in Spoken Word
07/04
Ep 61: Lennon to Bowie, Bono to Dylan - BP Fallon on his life in rock n' roll

June 2017

9 episodes

06/30
Ep 60: Johnny Murtagh - A Champion's Tale
06/27
Ep 59: Seán Boylan - An Irish Life from the RA to the GAA
06/23
Ep 58: The Brutal Torture of Sgt. Maurice McCabe
06/20
Ep 57: Going Against the Grain - Fathers4Justice
06/16
Ep 56: Colm Tóibín on his new novel 'House of Names'
06/13
Ep 55: Geoffrey Wheatcroft on the Tory crisis + John Giles on Ireland's draw with Austria
06/09
Ep 54: Donald Trump - Victim or Villain?
06/06
Ep 53: Security Analyst Tom Clonan on the New Terrorist Threat Facing Ireland
06/02
Ep 52: NAMA - The Institution that Answers to No One

May 2017

9 episodes

05/30
Ep 51: The Shocking Truth Behind Seán FitzPatrick's Trial
05/26
Ep 50: A Trump Special with Niall Stanage
05/23
Ep 49: Remembering the Lisbon Lions 50 Years On
05/19
Ep 48: Frank Flannery on Enda Kenny, Fine Gael's leadership contest & why Leo Varadkar excites him
05/16
Ep 47: Ronan Lyons on the Reasons for the Housing Crisis and Some Obvious Solutions
05/12
Ep 46: Ken Doherty from Hustler to Champion
05/09
Ep 45: Ken Doherty on the Long Road to Becoming World Champion
05/05
Ep 44: Ronaldo from Ferguson to Zidane
05/02
Ep 43: Mary Fitzgerald - A Foreign Correspondent's Story

April 2017

7 episodes

04/28
Ep 42: Dr. Peter Boylan Talks Exclusively to The Stand
04/25
Ep 41: Didi Casts Doubts Over Klopp's Approach
04/21
Ep 40: Conte's Big Mistake Offers Spurs a Lifeline
04/14
Ep 39: Graeme Souness Looks Back on his Illustrious Playing and Managing Career
04/11
Ep 38: A Manchester United Special with Liam Brady & John Giles
04/07
Ep 37: Nicola Tallant, Sunday World Investigations Editor, on the Kinahan-Hutch Feud
04/04
Ep 36: Dunphy on Why Roy Keane Should Stop Doing Press Conferences Before Ireland Games

March 2017

9 episodes

03/31
Ep 35: Tom Clonan on the Terror Threat and Ireland's Neutrality in a Dangerous World
03/28
Ep 34: Deputy John Halligan on the Bus Strike, Shane Ross and Being in Government with Fine Gael
03/24
Ep 33: Ronnie Whelan on Liverpool's Greatest Manager and his Difficult Relationship with Big Jack
03/21
Ep 32: The Uncertainty with Wenger
03/17
Ep 31: Professor John Crown on the Irish Health Service and Being Forced to Retire at 65
03/14
Ep 30: In Conversation with John Giles
03/10
Ep 29: Didi Hamann on Rafa, Houllier and that Special Night in Istanbul
03/07
Ep 28: Eddie Molloy on Why Irish Scandals Remain Unresolved
03/03
Ep 27: Dessie Farrell on the Gaelic Players Association's Long March for Justice

February 2017

8 episodes

02/28
Ep 26: Ibrahimovic Praised, Pogba Ridiculed
02/24
Ep 25: A Nurse's Story
02/21
Ep 24: The Decline of Barcelona and Should Wenger Stay or Go?
02/17
Ep 23: Ruby Walsh on the Golden Age of Irish Horse Racing and What the Future Holds for Him
02/14
Ep 22: Mick Clifford on the Maurice McCabe Affair
02/10
Ep 21: Damien Duff on street football's passing, playing for Mourinho and the McCarthy-Keane scandal
02/07
Ep 20: Liverpool's taste of the real world, Chelsea's biggest threat and should Ranieri go?
02/03
Ep 19: Diarmaid Ferriter on Trump, Brexit and Ireland's Foreign Policy in the Midst of the Chaos

January 2017

9 episodes

01/31
Ep 18: Liam Brady and Didi Hamann on Liverpool & Chelsea's Make or Break Match
01/27
Ep 17: Stephen Kenny on the Success, the Struggles and the Sadness
01/23
Ep 16: Eamonn McCann on the Future of Sinn Féin and What Brexit Means for Northern Ireland
01/20
Ep 15: Conte's handling of Costa, Pep's man management & Klopp needs to find another way
01/16
Ep 14: Robert Fisk on President Trump, "The Death of the Republican Party", Part 2
01/13
Ep 13: Robert Fisk on War, Journalism and 40 Years in Beirut, Part 1
01/09
Ep 12: John Waters - An Irish Dissident Silenced, Part 2
01/06
Ep 11: Is it adapt or die for Pep?
01/04
Ep 10: John Waters - An Irish Dissident Silenced, Part 1

December 2016

7 episodes

12/26
Ep 9: 'Hunting Lance Armstrong' - In Conversation with Paul Kimmage, Part 2
12/23
Ep 8: In Conversation with Paul Kimmage, Part 1
12/20
Ep 7: A Dunphy apology, John Giles on Wenger, and Liam Brady on the coach of the season
12/15
Ep 6: A tough draw for Arsenal, Pep's problems persist, and Didi vs. Jamie Carragher
12/09
Ep 5: In Conversation with Liam Brady
12/05
Ep 4: Can Guardiola work the Premier League out?
12/02
Ep 3: History is going to catch up with English football

November 2016

2 episodes

11/28
Ep 2: This is why Mourinho is toast, he's gone
11/25
Ep 1: Klopp's a one-trick pony, Mourinho's mess, and Guardiola's biggest test yet