Hello and welcome to the Red Box Politics Podcast and the Times I'm Matt Surely.

Now sometimes on the podcast we tried to cover issues which aren't in the news

agenda this week we thought we'd cover something which aren't in the news agenda. This week we thought

we'd cover something which turned out to be a rather too live a news story. In a moment

you'll hear us discussing what is happening in Ireland but just after we finished

recording it was announced that Francis Fitzgerald,

the Irish Deputy PM, was going to resign.

So if in the course of the next 10 minutes anybody sounds like they're suggesting she

definitely won't resign, please just ignore that. next 10 minutes anybody sounds like they're suggesting she definitely

won't resign please just ignore that. Disclaimer over. This week I'm

joined by Times columnist Hugo Rifkin who worries that the Tories are kitten

killers and Ashworth Times Money, warns that we are all still losing interest,

but first Patrick McGuire political reports with the Times,

who tries to explain the troubles in Ireland.

An ill-a-lavised snap election, a minority government and Brussels talks hanging the balance.

Remind you of anyone, as the Irish administration heads for collapse, Leo Varagka's luck might soon run out.

If neither T-Shuck nor the opposition

blinked today, Ireland could be headed for a Christmas election and London and even bigger Brexit

headache.

So, Patrick, what you're going to do is give us a crash course in Irish politics which should be easy to follow because they speak English and yet they don't speak English every

Every name party name job title is in Gaelic and nobody can understand what's going on.

So to start at the very beginning, Leo Veradka is the Tishik, he's the Prime Minister

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