The onslaught of the Covid 19 virus is expected to put our hospital service under severe pressure, writes writes Mick Clifford.

Eamon Dunphy has, over his lifetime, crossed the political spectrum from left to right and back again.

In the aftermath of the 2011 general election poet Theo Dorgan forecast that it was an interim moment in a long, unfolding process of change…” that would take a few elections before a new kind of politics would emerge.

After the earthquake in last Saturday’s election the country has been left with the prospect of a long drawn out dance before we arrive at a coherent government.

How was the campaign for you?

Something is happening in this election, but do we know what it is?

As the general election campaign enters its final, crucial week the podcast hears from public affairs consultant and Irish Examiner columnist Gerard Howlin.

We’re into the third week of the general election campaign, a crucial period for all those vying for your votes as people are now supposedly beginning to make up their minds.

Hitting the halfway stage in the general election campaign and the early sorting out between the various sides has been completed.

A week is a long time in campaigning.

The starting gun has sounded on the general election campaign. All parties are out of the blocks with promises and pledges but what should this election really be about?

Is the past ever behind us?

Alice Leahy has been working with people whom she categorises as Outsiders for over forty years.

Diarmuid Higgins got a call out of the blue last April telling him that an allegation of sexual abuse had been made against him as part of the garda investigation into Scouting Ireland.

Ian Bailey still lives under the shadow of a crime he has never stood trial for here, but was found guilty of in absentia in France. He now writes verse to battle a fear of extradition he tells Michael Clifford.

Immigration has entered the political arena again this week with comments from Wexford by-election candidate Verona Murphy about asylum seekers.

Journalist and broadcaster Alison O’Connor talks to Mick Clifford in this week’s podcast about two stories that have dominated the news agenda for the last week and will continue to do so in one form or another long into the future.

In this week's podcast we spoke to Michael Guerin, a senior therapist with the Cuan Mhuire treatment group.

New documentary ‘The Prizefighter’ charts the journey of boxer Gary O’Sullivan as he follows his dream of trying to become world champion. Michael Clifford met the man they call ‘Spike’.

The body of a prisoner who died by suicide was dragged out of his cell in a highly inappropriate manner, according to a whistleblower in the prison service.

A young couple died in a fire tragedy in 2002 but it would be fifteen years and another fire later before it was discovered that the building in which they died had serious defects.

The environmental group Extinction Rebellion has lost faith in the willingness of government and or the capacity of conventional governments to tackle climate change.

In a tumultuous week in UK politics, in which the government lost control of its Brexit agenda, we profile Boris Johnson.