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Irish Times
15-05-2025
- Politics
- Irish Times
Marriage equality: ten years on, has Ireland's progressive optimism disappeared?
It is ten years since the country voted to legalise same-sex marriage. This victory for progressive politics was followed by another when abortion rights were won in 2018. But what is sometimes called 'the progressive agenda' has since had setbacks, including last year's defeated referendums on family and care. So how relevant is progressivism to Irish politics now, and where does that energy go next? Labour leader Ivana Bacik, columnist Gerard Howlin and political editor Pat Leahy join Hugh Linehan on today's Inside Politics podcast to look back at the 2015 referendum campaign and assess its legacy.
Irish Times
07-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Irish Times
Cardinals gather in Rome to choose new Pope
India attacked Pakistan and Pakistani Kashmir on Wednesday with several deaths reported. Pakistan is calling the assault a 'blatant act of war'. Dublin City Council have opened a Mobility School in Eamonn Ceannt Park, Crumlin, a fun and safe environment to learn and practise cycling. Video: Bryan O'Brien Just outside of Kinsale, Co Cork, a community group have banded together in an effort to buy a local pub, the Harbour Bar. Video: Enda O'Dowd Pat Doherty of the Doagh Famine Village shows us the damage inflicted by a fire over the weekend on the family owned museum in County Donegal. Video: Joe Dunne US President Donald Trump has ordered a new 100% tariff on all movies made outside of the US, claiming Hollywood is dying a 'very fast death'. Still producing work in his Dublin studio, the artist Michael Kane celebrates his 90th birthday this year. Video: Bryan O'Brien Political Editor of The Irish Times, Pat Leahy, reviews the beginning of Micheál Martin's second term as Taoiseach. Video: Dan Dennison Philip Pullella, a Vatican expert, explains how the sequestered cardinals will elect a successor to Pope Francis. (Reuters) 100 days into the new Government, childcare campaigners protest at Leinster House calling on the Government to tackle the childcare crisis. Video: Dan Dennison
Irish Times
03-05-2025
- Politics
- Irish Times
100 days of the Government
Political Editor of The Irish Times, Pat Leahy, reviews the beginning of Micheál Martin's second term as Taoiseach. Video: Dan Dennison Still producing work in his Dublin studio, the artist Michael Kane celebrates his 90th birthday this year. Video: Bryan O'Brien Philip Pullella, a Vatican expert, explains how the sequestered cardinals will elect a successor to Pope Francis. (Reuters) 100 days into the new Government, childcare campaigners protest at Leinster House calling on the Government to tackle the childcare crisis. Video: Dan Dennison US treasury secretary Scott Bessent announced the deal on X, saying it 'signals the Trump Administration's commitment to a free, sovereign, prosperous Ukraine." Michael Gaine's wife Janice (L) and his sister Noreen O'Regan (R) made a public appeal for help with the farmer's disappearance, now upgraded to a homicide. Students from Dublin Gaelscoileanna protested outside Leinster House, calling for the Gaelcholáiste promised last September to be built. Video: Dan Dennison Donald Trump has held a campaign-style rally in Michigan celebrating his first 100 days in office, with a speech in which he touted his 'economic victories'. A protest organised by Ireland-Palestine Solidarity Campaign has called on the Central Bank to stop regulating Israeli Bonds. Video: Alan Betson Former Sinn Féin president Gerry Adams has taken the BBC to court over a 2016 programme which, he claims, defamed him. Video: Enda O'Dowd
Irish Times
03-05-2025
- Politics
- Irish Times
Artist Michael Kane at 90: 'I find myself living in the moment'
Political Editor of The Irish Times, Pat Leahy, reviews the beginning of Micheál Martin's second term as Taoiseach. Video: Dan Dennison Still producing work in his Dublin studio, the artist Michael Kane celebrates his 90th birthday this year. Video: Bryan O'Brien Philip Pullella, a Vatican expert, explains how the sequestered cardinals will elect a successor to Pope Francis. (Reuters) 100 days into the new Government, childcare campaigners protest at Leinster House calling on the Government to tackle the childcare crisis. Video: Dan Dennison US treasury secretary Scott Bessent announced the deal on X, saying it 'signals the Trump Administration's commitment to a free, sovereign, prosperous Ukraine." Michael Gaine's wife Janice (L) and his sister Noreen O'Regan (R) made a public appeal for help with the farmer's disappearance, now upgraded to a homicide. Students from Dublin Gaelscoileanna protested outside Leinster House, calling for the Gaelcholáiste promised last September to be built. Video: Dan Dennison Donald Trump has held a campaign-style rally in Michigan celebrating his first 100 days in office, with a speech in which he touted his 'economic victories'. A protest organised by Ireland-Palestine Solidarity Campaign has called on the Central Bank to stop regulating Israeli Bonds. Video: Alan Betson Former Sinn Féin president Gerry Adams has taken the BBC to court over a 2016 programme which, he claims, defamed him. Video: Enda O'Dowd
Irish Times
25-04-2025
- Politics
- Irish Times
Will there be a teacher's strike in the autumn?
Pat Leahy and Jack Horgan-Jones join Hugh Linehan to look back on the week in politics: Pope Francis passed away on Easter Monday at the age of 88. Thoughts now turn to the election of his successor and whether they will be viewed to be as tolerant and progressive as the late pontiff. Minister for Education Helen McEntee has her work cut out for her to keep secondary school teachers onside with both the Teacher's Union of Ireland and the Association of Secondary Teachers of Ireland voting to ballot on industrial action if plans to reform the Leaving Certificate from this September are not paused. And the Government has told RTÉ that State funding of more than €60 million for its redundancy plan will hinge on the broadcaster hitting yearly targets as it reduces its headcount. Plus, the panel picks their favourite Irish Times pieces of the week: Bill Clinton on a polarized America 30 years on from the Oklahoma bombing , Ireland needs to tread carefully with the EU on tariffs, and have we reached an empathy crisis ?
