Don O'Leary is the director of the Cork Life Centre, which caters for youths who are unsuited to the confines of the education system. 

Naoise Connolly joins Mick Clifford on this week's pod to discuss her fight for justice for her late husband, Mick Ryan

Mick's guest today is Prof Gary Murphy of DCU, who has written a compelling account of Haughey’s life 

The cost of fast fashion is not just abuses of working and human rights, but also damage to the environment is now being acknowledged

A BBC series in 2017 on murder mysteries that looked at the case of John Twiss came to the conclusion he was wrongly convicted and hanged for murder. It was time for his family to act, reports Mick Clifford

Last week the cabinet recommended a presidential pardon for John Twiss, a 34-year-old man who was hanged for a murder he didn’t commit in 1895

Having three Cabinet members photographed looking at a digitised version of history is about as serious as the 100th anniversary of the signing of the Anglo-Irish treaty gets

Did the Treaty really represent, as Michael Collins claimed at the time, the freedom to achieve freedom?

The Mitchelstown killings shocked a community. What happened to prompt this tragedy and could anything have been done to prevent it?

Mick's guest this week is former Fianna Fáil TD, Frank O'Rourke

Imelda Wickham spent twenty years as a prison chaplain in one of Ireland’s largest prisons.

Grace and Siobhán Odumosu, who suffered prolonged abuse as children at the hands of their uncle, spoke to Mick Clifford about their experience with the legal system.

Mick's guest this week is longtime caretaker and tour guide for Skellig Michael, Robert Harris

On this week's pod, Irish filmmaker Ronan Tynan tells Mick about his latest documentary, 'Bringing Assad to Justice'

On this week's pod, Mick is joined by political economist, Aidan Regan

Author and environmental scientist Tara Shine is Mick’s guest on this week’s pod

How harmful is the culture of Facebook and Instagram and what can be done to protect young people in particular from the worst excesses in pursuit of profit?

On this week's episode, Mick talks to author and TCD professor Ian Robertson about his new book: How Confidence Works

Dr Johnny Ryan joins Mick on this week's podcast to discuss big tech 

Donal Hickey joins Mick on this week's podcast to discuss the case of 'Baby John'

Distant relatives and fantastic fortunes are this week's topic on The Mick Clifford Podcast. 

In 1976 the Cork-Dublin mail train was robbed setting off a series of events that led to a major miscarriage of justice.  Osgur Breatnach was one of three men convicted and later cleared of the robbery.

Dalal Alshohaib's story is one of stuggle and ultimate triumph. 

From his home in the city of Sochi, Bryan McDonald spoke to the podcast about how the fall of Afghanistan to the Taliban is being viewed in his adopted country

Mick's guest this week is environmental scientist and writer Cara Augustenborg

Mick's guest this week is Kylie Stevenson, co-producer of the podcast series Lost in Larimah

Sociolinguistics professor Vera Regan speaks to Mick Clifford about why we use the words we use

Dr John Borgonovo speaks to Mick about the aftermath of the War of the Independence 

Ian Bailey speaks to Mick about how two recent documentaries on the murder of Sophie Toscan du Plantier in 1996 have awoken interest in the case

This week's pod sees Mick joined by Journalist and author Susan McKay, who discusses her new book  Northern Protestants: On Shifting Ground

Mick's guest this week is Irish Examiner Deputy Political Editor, Elaine Loughlin

Why, in the popular imagination, is Arthur Griffith not held in higher esteem? 

Limerick transition year student Saoirse Exton is Mick's guest this week

Caolan Robertson is Mick's guest on this week's show

Irish Examiner Political Editor Daniel McConnell joins Mick on this week's episode

This week the podcast guests are two millennials, Ryan O’Rourke and Shauna Bowers.

Author Mark O’Connell spent two years travelling around the globe meeting individuals and groups who are preparing for, well, the end.

In a wide-ranging interview, the cop portrayed by Al Pacino in the eponymous movie discusses being shot 50 years ago, racism in the US following the Derek Chauvin guilty verdict, and his long career in and out of the blue uniform

Frank Serpico spoke to Mick Clifford about NYPD corruption, his shooting, the future of policing in the US after Derek Chauvin's conviction for the murder of George Floyd, and finding new hope in nature. 

Mick Clifford spoke to Brian Cuthbert about the impact lockdown has had on the development of children.

Michael Clifford interviews the first woman Provost of Trinity College Dublin

Trinity College Provost Linda Doyle talks to Mick about growing up in Cork and her career to dat

Leas Ceann Comhairle of the Dáil, Catherine Connolly is this week's guest

Mick's guests this week are urban designers Jude Sherry and Frank O'Connor

Derek Scally talks to Mick Clifford about his new book, The Best Catholics In The World

Dr Seamus O'Mahony, an author and consultant, is this week's guest on the Michael Clifford podcast. 

Mick Clifford's guests this are economist Seamus Coffey and trade unionist Brendan Ogle

To mark the War of Independence, the Irish Examiner is publishing a four-part podcast series focussing on some of the events from those turbulent times.

This week a married couple, both solicitors, were jailed for an elaborate fraud that robbed banks of credit unions of at least €400,000.

Worrying activity online and the targeting of high profile individuals from a minority background formed the basis of an investigative piece of journalism by Irish Examiner reporters Aoife Moore and Paul Hosford.