Inside Politics podcast with Hugh Linehan
Independent TD Verona Murphy in her office at Leinster House, Dublin, after she was elected as the new Ceann Comhairle. Photograph: Brian Lawless/PA WireJack Horgan-Jones and Jennifer Bray join Hugh Linehan on today’s Inside Politics podcast to discuss the week in politics:
The large influx of fresh TDs has brought a welcome joy and lack of cynicism to Leinster House. But the main event of the week wasThe Regional Group of Independents, that clan of geographically diverse TDs that includes the new Ceann Comhairle, are now set to support Fine Gael and Fianna Fáil as a partner in the next government. With Murphy out of the picture, the remaining members have
This incoming coalition faces big challenges in the years ahead, from fiscal threats to climate action and handling the Occupied Territories Bill.
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