The Party Line

Jenny Maguire, Aoife Grace Moore, Rory Rowan and Oisín Gilmore join Eoghan McNeill of The Ditch to talk about getting Left voices heard.
Filmed at the Whistleblower bookshop and café for its opening on May 23rd 2026.
Recording and editing: Emmet White
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Has capitalism's American-led empire sown the seeds of its own military defeat?
The Professor of Imperial and Global History at King's College London, Richard Drayton, joins the pod to talk about how military technology, and the political economy it's embedded in, have yet again changed the face of war.
The Party Line is a podcast from The Ditch, ontheditch.com – hosted by Harry Browne and Niamh Ní Bhriain, with Paulie Doyle from The Ditch.
'RTÉ faces potential investigation over GAA Allianz programme' https://www.ontheditch.com/rte-faces-potential-investigation/
'Chambers's business class flight and five-star hotel' https://www.ontheditch.com/jack-chambers-enjoyed-business-class/
'Maybe we should ask Ireland’s small population of Jews what they think about anti-Semitism' https://tinyurl.com/ytwfrk6e

Music: Fionn Dempsey
Recording: Emmet White and (for Drayton interview) Harry Browne
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Former MEP Clare Daly talks about politics, corruption, Europe, and the future of the Left.
The Party Line is a podcast from The Ditch, ontheditch.com, with Niamh Ní Bhriain, Harry Browne and Eoghan McNeill of The Ditch.
'Patrick O'Donovan didn't admit secret call with Coimisiún na Meán about media examination': https://www.ontheditch.com/patrick-o-donovan-secret-call/
'Patrick O’Donovan’s department didn’t disclose his secret Coimisiún na Meán call in meeting minutes': https://www.ontheditch.com/patrick-odonovans-department/
'Ireland Aims to Join Next Phase of Flagship EU Defense Loan Fund': https://tinyurl.com/mr2w3pzd
'Ireland ends deployment as UN Security Council fails to renew mandate on Mediterranean mission': https://www.thejournal.ie/ireland-irish-defence-forces-operation-irini-un-security-council-rome-italy-7051229-May2026/
Music: Fionn Dempsey
Recording: Justin Young
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Missile and drone components to Israel, AI-powered gun-turrets from France – Ireland's place in the global weapons trade is growing.
But so is the resistance.
The Party Line is a podcast from The Ditch, ontheditch.com. Niamh Ní Bhriain and Harry Browne are joined by Roman Shortall of The Ditch.
'Palestine Action Éire target Acra Control in Dublin': https://x.com/wereontheditch/status/2056450102512996583?s=20
'Elbit Germany sending target acquisition system to Israel as Ulm Five face "show trial"': https://www.ontheditch.com/elbit-germany-sending/
'Robots in the military': https://tinyurl.com/3bwvndh9
'Revealed: Ireland approved €20m in dual-use exports to IDF and Israeli Defence Ministry at height of Gaza war': https://thecurrency.news/articles/226977/revealed-ireland-approved-e20m-in-dual-use-exports-to-idf-and-israeli-defence-ministry-at-height-of-gaza-war/
Music: Fionn Dempsey
Recording: Emmet White
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Paul Holden is back on the pod to mark another phase in the collapse of the Keir Starmer project. It's got so bad that a Labour MP trolled the British prime minister by visibly carrying Paul's book, The Fraud, in the House of Commons.
The Party Line is a podcast from The Ditch, news and comment from Ireland – ontheditch.com. It's hosted by Niamh Ní Bhriain and Harry Browne, with Paulie Doyle from The Ditch.
Ditch stories discussed: https://www.ontheditch.com/fine-gael-byelection-candidate-sean-kyne/ and https://www.ontheditch.com/ray-mcadam-used-lord-mayors-car/
'Good Jews, Bad Jews' in Equator: https://www.equator.org/articles/good-jews-bad-jews-barnaby-raine
Vashti Media: https://www.vashtimedia.com/
Shadow World Investigations: https://shadowworldinvestigations.org/
Music by Fionn Dempsey
Recording by Emmet White
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