New Irish government Q&A livestream

The Irish Passport

Society & Culture

4.8 • 652 Ratings

🗓️ 7 October 2020

⏱️ 60 minutes

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Summary

After almost half a year of negotiations and political maneuvering, Ireland finally has a government. It’s unlike any that has come before it, and it doesn’t include the party that got the post votes in the last election, Sinn Féin. In this livestreamed podcast, Naomi and Tim answer listener questions with special guests Aoife-Grace Moore, political correspondent with The Irish Examiner, and Darach Ó Séaghdha of the Motherfoclóir podcast. Is the new government’s policy programme really the greenest ever? Why are people calling this the end of the Civil War politics? Are the Green party falling into a trap, and will Sinn Féin ultimately benefit? The new coalition is made up of old rivals Fianna Fáil and Fine Gael, with the support of the Green party. The new Taoiseach is Micheál Martin, who is supposed to be in office until the end of 2022 when he will step aside to let outgoing Taoiseach Leo Varadkar assume the role. Watch the video version of this live podcast here: https://youtu.be/E8dnapYnmig To access our full archive of bonus content head on over to our Patreon page and sign up to support the podcast www.patreon.com/theirishpassport If you liked this podcast, do share it with your friends, give us a nice rating in your podcast app, or connect with us on social media. We’re @PassportIrish on Twitter and Facebook.

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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.
0:13.4	I'm recording.
0:14.2	One, two, two, three.
0:16.6	Okay. All right. Well, welcome everyone to a very special election live stream of the Irish Passport podcast.
0:44.1	And a very special welcome, above all, to Eva Moore, who is political correspondent with the Irish Examiner,
0:49.5	who was very kindly agreed to join us for this election live stream. Hi, Yipa.
0:53.5	We will see if we will be able to make
0:57.3	contact with Dara O'Shea as well of the amazing Motherfactor podcast. He might be along later on to
1:03.7	give us his insights. But just to set the scene before I start launching into questions for both
1:10.6	of you, and correct me if I'm wrong here, we're in a very, very interesting situation with the Irish government right now.
1:17.6	The last time that we talked about this on the podcast, we were coming to you live from the RDS Count Center in Dublin, and that was a pretty historic election day because for the first time in modern history,
1:28.3	the Sinn Féin party won the majority of votes in a general election. But that left us in a really weird
1:34.3	because Sinn Féin hadn't actually run the right number of candidates or enough candidates to form a government majority by themselves.
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