On this week's podcast, Theo tells Mick about what he learned while adapting the Anglo Irish Treaty debates into a six-hour theatrical production

What does the year ahead hold for politics?

What about the childer’? So went the cry of faux outrage a few weeks ago when it was announced that the crib in Dublin’s Mansion House would be without live animals.

Mayor of Killarney Niall Kelleher join's Mick on this week's podcast

Should Roy have gone to the World Cup? Which one, says you. The past reared up from the grave during the week with a screening of a programme on Saipan.

Michael O’Flynn and Rory Hearne are this week’s guests on the Mick Clifford podcast

The Civil War killings were far more tragic than those of the Easter Rising’s leaders. The savagery was not confined to one side

This week’s guest on the podcast is Robert Schmuhl, emeritus professor at the University of Notre Dame

David Quinn is for many a standard bearer of conservative Catholicism, through both his commentary in the media and his stewardship of the Iona Institute.

Catherine O’Brien has had a varied business career flitting between law, the florist business, a veterinary products company and moving in the bloodstock world.

Around 600 people attend the Dublin Rape Crisis Centre in a normal year, according to the chief executive.

Throughout Europe, far right parties have been having electoral success this year

“He was more popular within the ranks of Sinn Féin and there was a kind of dormant resentment of Mary Lou because of her background. "

Leading Irish tenor Gavan Ring was so desperate for work during the pandemic that he applied for the job of press officer for the Social Democrats.

A woman who has been imprisoned in connection with serious mental health difficulties is being confined to a cell on her own and is 'really struggling because she likes to be around people'

This week's guest, Aoife O’Connell, has found that despite the excavation of the past adopted people are still not afforded the access to their own details that should be a human right

Paramilitary kept her condition a secret for nine months so escape plot could be hatched

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. 

Retired chief superintendent John O’Brien spoke on the podcast about a case that plumbs some murky depths

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

Laura O’Connell tracks how she first came into contact with Egan, how things developed to the point where Egan was harassing her on a nearly daily basis and what happened when she was forced to go to court to ensure her own safety

The enveloping inflation spiral and cost of living crisis is dominating public life today and practically everybody has been impacted in one form or another.

Dr Mary McAuliffe and Dr Hilary Dully joined Mick on the podcast for some fascinating insights in the role of women in the Civil War.

Martin McMahon, an activist and podcaster who has had cancer for the last 13 years, speaks about his experiences on this weeks podcast.

Filmmaker Neil Atkinson, who presents the popular Anfield Wrap podcast was one of those present on the night of the Champions League final in Paris.

Court reporter Eoin Reynolds attended every day of the trial and he is this week’s guest

Willie McGee, a former member of the garda fraud squad, speaks to Mick Clifford about his experiences and his new book.

Ronan McGreevy’s new book, Great Hatred, the assassination of field marshal Sir Henry Wilson MP, provides context, colour and plenty of evidence from the time, the lead up to the killing

Ed Honohan tells the podcast about how he tried to assist lay litigants, why the courts are inaccessible to most people and why one day he felt it necessary to break a window in his court.

The only Irish writer shortlisted for this year’s €100,000 Dublin Literary Award is Cork-born Danielle McLaughlin for her debut novel, The Art of Falling.

Two US army veterans in their 80s have been convicted of interfering with the operation of Shannon Airport as part of an anti-war protest three years ago.

Polina Bashkina is a Ukrainian journalist who is now living in Co Galway with her six-year-old son.

Mick Fealty, founder and editor of the current affairs online publication Slugger O’Toole, believes the election is now Sinn Féin’s to lose

Irish Examiner Political Editor Daniel McConnell joins Mick on this week's pod to discuss the many political issues the Government is currently grappling with

Oxfam Ireland’s Aideen Elliot told The Mick Clifford Podcast that we cannot respond differently to refugees fleeing different wars

While the focus of the world is on the war and humanitarian crisis in Ukraine, there is an ongoing refugee crisis in southern Europe

Claire Ryan is among a number of people who have battled for 15 years for a resolution to the issues posed by fire safety defects in their homes

In the current housing market, there are some who will use the crisis to exploit vulnerable people

Natalya talks on the podcast about how her family are coping, and the guilt she feels being so removed from them and her friends.

Housing is the defining issue of Irish politics at the moment but what do we talk about when we talk about housing?Lorcan Sirr has assembled a collection of experts to give their views on how housing impacts all aspects of life, from attitudes to ...

Conor Brady, former chair of the Garda Ombudsman joins Mick on this week's podcast

On Dangerous Ground: A memoir of the Irish Revolution is edited by Hilary Dully and she is this week’s guest on the podcast

Peter Sweetman joins Mick on this week's pod

Thalidomide survivor Finola Cassidy is Mick's guest this week

Irish Examiner political correspondent Aoife Moore is a native of Derry. She is also a niece of one of those murdered on that day, Patrick Doherty. 

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