EU

Another year, another Christmas recap episode! Steve and Richie go through some notable people (and dogs) from the past year and decide who should be celebrated and who should get in the bin with the rest of 2020.…

Gross domestic product: The metric politicians and economists use to measure how "well" things are going. What is it? What's wrong with it? How does it tie into our last episode about work? Why is the episode artwork a crappy horse costume?…

Most of us have a very clear idea of what an Irish American is and have an overview of the community's journey from the Famine to the White House. The Irish community in Britain is a different and far more complicated story, however. And…

Meet John Hyland, an Irish NGO worker whose career took him to Brussels where he fell in love with a French woman. A perfect European love story which led, as these things do, to a perfect European family. But what happens when this most…

As the 2010s draw to a close, we’ll be looking back at one of the most significant decades in the Irish history since the Civil War. It is a decade that began and ended with critical moments for Ireland’s relationship with the European…

Mancando means dying away. It is one of the many Italian musical terms my guitar teacher hands me to learn off as the news breaks of the Notre Dame cathedral; as it was mancando. The pictures displayed it in blazing rapture. I mentioned it,…

The letter A (and her saucy sister, Á) are the subject of today's episode, a pronunciation masterclass with Darach, Peadar, Éimear and Ola . We'll be meeting cats, boats, cakes, bad weather, terrible puns and showing you where a fada makes…

The Irish for Passport is pas, which can also mean an episode in time or a fit (of rage or madness, for example). This week Darach is joined by journalist Naomi O'Leary, who has written extensively about EU matters and co-presents "The…

For many people of my generation, 1989 was a defining year. The geopolitical map of the world shifted and the post-World War II, tripartite Cold War arrangement came to an end. As the Iron Curtain lifted, and the ideological rivalry of…

Months of procrastination on the part of the British political class finally came to an end on March 29th with the triggering of Article 50. It may seem redundant, if not outright pompous, to say Brexit could have been prevented nearly a…