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    Budget Day Special

    06/10/2026 | 54 mins.
    Cormac presents a special Budget Day edition of The Late Debate from the Buswells Hotel across from Leinster House.
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    Economists perspective on Budget

    01/10/2026 | 54 mins.
    How can the budget address issues relating to childcare, retirees, hauliers, farmers, the struggling masses and the squeezed middle? We ask economists Niall Conroy, Senior Economist IFAC; Kevin Timoney, Chief Economist at Davy; Dr Emma Howard, Economics Lecturer at TU Dublin. Cormac is also joined by a panel of: Elaine Dunne, Chairperson, Federation of Early Childhood Providers; Ger Hyland, President of the Irish Road Haulage Association; Louise Bayliss, Head of Social Justice and Policy SVP; Francie Gorman, President IFA; Michelle Murphy, Policy Analyst Social Justice Ireland; Joan Carthy, Head of Advocacy Irish Wheelchair Association; Sean Moynihan, CEO Alone.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
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    The Drumcree impasse continues

    30/09/2026 | 19 mins.
    Cormac is joined by a panel of: John Burrows, MLA for North Antrim, Ulster Unionist Party; Conor Sheehan, TD Labour, Limerick; Peadar Toibin TD Aontú, Meath West; John Connolly, TD Fianna Fáil, Galway West; Mary Regan, Political Editor, Irish Independent.
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    FAI before Oireachtas Committee

    30/09/2026 | 21 mins.
    Cormac is joined by a panel of: Conor Sheehan, TD Labour, Limerick; Peadar Toibin TD Aontú, Meath West; John Connolly, TD Fianna Fáil, Galway West; Mary Regan, Political Editor, Irish Independent.

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    Public sector workers begin work-to-rule

    30/09/2026 | 11 mins.
    Cormac is joined by a panel of: John Burrows, MLA for North Antrim, Ulster Unionist Party; Conor Sheehan, TD Labour, Limerick; Peadar Toibin TD Aontú, Meath West; John Connolly, TD Fianna Fáil, Galway West; Mary Regan, Political Editor, Irish Independent.
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Join Cormac Ó hEadhra for news, lively debate and analysis as he puts the issues that matter most to you to the people in power.
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