Inside Politics with Hugh Linehan

Wednesday April 2nd is when US president Donald Trump is expected to announce tariffs on a wide range of imports from several countries, probably including the European Union. But what can the EU do in response? Cliff Taylor and Jack Power join Hugh. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Pat Leahy and Sarah Burns join Hugh Linehan to look back on the week in politics: ·       The Dáil will enter uncharted territory next Tuesday as a motion of no confidence in Ceann Comhairle Verona Murphy will be debated in the Dáil. Mary Lou McDonald and Labour leader Ivan Bacik are united in their insistence that Mur

Sally Hayden talks to Hugh Linehan about her experiences reporting from Syria and Lebanon. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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Jack Horgan-Jones and Pat Leahy join Hugh Linehan to look back on the week in politics: Jack reports from Brussels where EU leaders have been meeting to discuss issues including defence and rearmament. Paschal Donohoe used the sidelines of an EU summit to deliver a stark warning on the impact of tariffs on the economy.

The idea that a country can't increase the size of its territory by taking it over another has been a principle of Western foreign policy for decades. If that changes it will be a profound shift. "Once that genie's out of the bottle, it will be very hard to put back in", says Tom Wright, the Irishman who was a member o