The Party Line

Highlights from the first 20 episodes of The Party Line, a podcast from The Ditch – hosted by Harry Browne and Niamh Ní Bhriain, with the team of Ditch journalists: Eoghan McNeill, Paulie Doyle and Roman Shortall.
Big thanks to Art O'Connor at the Whistleblower, and to Emmet White, for helping The Party Line improve and grow.
02.10 Eman Muhammed on The Ditch (ep03)
02.43 Eoghan on being arse-dialled (ep08)
03.36 Paulie on serious guys (ep13)
05.03 Roman on Taoiseach lying (ep04)
06.27 Paulie on Taoiseach (ep02)
06.58 Paulie on election candidate lying (ep06)
08.00 Eoghan on liberal indifference (ep17)
09.34 Roman on direct action in Ulm (ep11)
11.40 Eoghan on compradors (ep19)
14.04 Paulie on Boy George (ep10)
14.41 Eoghan on Pascal Donohoe (ep19)
16.36 Andy Storey on Pascal Donohoe (ep06)
17.22 Eoghan and Clare Daly on Helen McEntee (ep12)
19.33 Paddy Bresnihan and Pat Brodie on FDI nationalism (ep07)
21.00 Betty Purcell on Brendan O'Connor (ep20)
22.00 Nausicaa Renner on who reads DropSite (ep08)
22.54 Harry and Jodi Dean on the AI debate (ep19)
25.18 William Wall on liberals and fascists (ep14)
27.02 Paul Holden on Labour Together and antisemitism (ep2 and ep10)
28.51 Matt Kennard on US military Nazis and gangs (ep15)
30.40 Richard Drayton on the new arms gap (ep13)
31.55 Khem Rogaly on who profits from military spending (ep16)
33.07 Eman on evacuating Gaza under Obama (ep03)
34.49 Zena Tahhan and Leila Warah on the Occuplied Territories Bill (ep17)
37.11 John Reynolds on book burning (ep18)
39.15 Rebecca O'Keeffe on FIFA hypocrisy (ep04)
41.07 Tadhg Hickey on Israeli escalation (ep09)
42.09 Niamh on pigeon-holing the fuel protest (ep09)
43.40 Eoghan and Niamh on unaffordable homes (ep17)
44.45 Niamh on French AI weapons for Ireland (ep05)
45.54 Niamh on the Cuba blockade (ep04)
47.37 Niamh and panel on the EU presidency and Tayto (ep18)
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RTÉ, Ireland's national broadcaster, is hammered by scandal – and hampered by a combination of deference to government and devotion to commercial imperatives.
Betty Purcell, former radio and TV producer in RTÉ – who also sat as the elected staff representative on the RTÉ Authority – joins The Party Line, hosted by Harry Browne and Niamh Ní Bhriain, with Eoghan McNeill of The Ditch.
'The Ditch investigation into Dublin investment firm Elkstone's Epstein deal subject of bogus complaint, deleted from Google' https://www.ontheditch.com/dublin-investment-firm-elkstones-epstein-deal/
'Report card: How RTÉ has performed on TV and radio during challenging times' https://tinyurl.com/sp7d3pcv
Music by Fionn Dempsey
Recording by Justin Young
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The tech lords' vision of the power and inevitability of AI is directly opposed to any vision for socialism.
The powerful American political thinker Jodi Dean joins The Party Line, a podcast from The Ditch – hosted by Harry Browne and Niamh Ní Bhriain, with Eoghan McNeill of The Ditch.
'Mason Hayes & Curran chairperson, Meta's lawyer was going to attend cancelled Peter Thiel event' https://www.ontheditch.com/mason-hayes-curran-chairperson-metas-lawyer-was-going-to-attend-cancelled-peter-thiel-event/
'Did We Make the Wrong Bet on Big A.I.? https://tinyurl.com/3rev883h
Jodi Dean's Substack: https://jodi7768.substack.com/
Music by Fionn Dempsey
Recording by Emmet White
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A lot of pro-Palestine activism rests on legal concepts and language – genocide, apartheid, and the illegality of the Israeli occupation.
But in Gaza, they're burning international-law books for fuel.
Are we wasting time and energy by seeking justice through the courts? Critical legal scholar John Reynolds of Maynooth University joins the pod to argue out the contradictions.
The Party Line is a podcast from The Ditch, hosted by Harry Browne and Niamh Ní Bhriain, with Paulie Doyle of The Ditch.
'Irish energy regulator was going to attend Thiel event in Powerscourt Hotel' https://www.ontheditch.com/energy-regulator/
'EU presidency ceremony almost went down without a hitch, but Zelenskiy dig was copped by all' https://tinyurl.com/5dxsvkfj
John Reynolds' fortcoming book with Noura Erakat: https://www.haymarketbooks.org/books/2851-confronting-zionism
Music by Fionn Dempsey
Recording by Emmet White
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Palestinian journalists Leila Warah and Zena Tahhan explain why Ireland disappoints them, and how they continue to cover an increasingly brutal and catastrophic Israeli occupation.
And host Niamh Ni Bhriain joins Eoghan McNeill of The Ditch to consider the cruelties of 'affordable' housing, and what liberal discourse about Anglo-Irish relations always manages to leave out.
The Party Line is a podcast from The Ditch, with co-host Harry Browne.
'Council executive: rents will rise no matter what councillors vote' https://www.ontheditch.com/council-executive-rents-will-rise/
Fintan O'Toole, 'The aftershocks of Brexit’s failure could be gaining strength – a fearful prospect for Ireland' https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/jun/22/aftershocks-brexit-failure-fearful-prospect-ireland
Leila Warah https://www.instagram.com/leila.shw/?hl=en
Zena Tahhan https://www.instagram.com/zenatahhan/?hl=en
Music by Fionn Dempsey
Recording and editing by Emmet White
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