Six points that explain Ireland's 2020 election

The Irish Passport

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🗓️ 7 October 2020

⏱️ 16 minutes

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Ireland goes to the polls on February 8th. We break down six points that explain the election. Who are the players? Why was the election called? What are the main issues? How will the election work? What are the likely results? And what do the Black and Tans have to do with it? This is an episode of Halfpints, the bonus episodes of The Irish Passport podcast we make specially to thank our supporters on Patreon. You can find a whole archive of extra content over at https://www.patreon.com/theirishpassport. Follow us on Twitter and Facebook: @PassportIrish.

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0:16.6	Okay. Hello and welcome to half-pines, the bonus content of the Irish Passport podcast we make to thank our patron supporters.
0:44.1	In this episode, we're going to break down six things you need to know to understand Ireland's election on February 8th.
0:50.5	Who are the players? Why was the election called? What are the main issues? How will the election work? What are the likely results? And finally, what do the black and tans have to do with it?
1:03.5	One. So who are the players in all this? There are three big parties in this election. There's Finnegale that by current Taoiseach Leo Varadkar, which has been in
1:11.8	Paris since 2011. To sum them up, Finnegale are often described as centre or centre right, or a
1:17.9	liberal conservative party. How can a party be liberal, conservative, you ask? Well, it basically
1:24.4	means that Irish political parties don't fit neatly into the left-right
1:28.1	dichotomies of other anglophone nations.
1:31.5	But it also means this is the party that introduced the landmark liberal reforms of equal
1:36.2	marriage and legalized abortion, but that also likes to cut taxes and prides itself on limiting
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