Halfpints: What the EU election results tell us about Ireland

The Irish Passport

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🗓️ 16 June 2024

⏱️ 52 minutes

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We have made this Halfpint bonus episode freely available to all our listeners. If you want to access more than 100 extra-content episodes just like this, you can sign up to support the continued making of the podcast at www.patreon.com/theirishpassport. In this edition of Halfpints, we answer questions about the recent EU and local elections in Ireland, and break down what the major consequences might be for the Irish and European political landscape.

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0:00.0	Hello, welcome to Irish Passport.
0:02.3	Let's do it.
0:03.1	Welcome to the Irish Passport.
0:04.8	I'm Tim McInerney.
0:06.0	I'm Naomi O'Leary.
0:07.0	We're friends.
0:07.7	Can you both to Naomi?
0:08.5	Anwar Fat, Tim.
0:09.9	This is your passport to Irish culture, history and politics.
0:13.2	Uh-huh.
0:13.5	I'm recording.
0:14.2	One, two, two, three.
0:16.6	Okay. Hello everyone and welcome to another bonus episode of the Irish Passport podcast that we make especially to thank our Patreon supporters.
0:45.6	And this episode is actually open to the general public. So if you're out there and you're a regular listener of the Irish Passport podcast, this is a sample of the kind of stuff that you can get
0:54.2	over on our Patreon space. So the reason that we're making it an open one today, Naomi, is
0:59.6	because we did promise everyone that we would talk about the EU elections. And that's what we're
1:04.1	going to talk about today, the fallout, the results, all kinds of stuff. And Naomi, you're going
1:08.5	to explain it to me. Yes so Ireland obviously went to the polls
1:11.3	not just in European elections but also in local elections last week and threw up some really
1:16.3	interesting unexpected results that tell us a lot about the current political landscape in Ireland.
1:20.6	So we're going to pick through it a bit. We'll also be taking some questions and comments from our
1:24.9	supporters over on Patreon and we've had loads of them recording this issue so for instance patron supporter kevin says he would love to
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