Guests Fintan O'Toole, Una Mullally, Harry McGee and host Hugh Linehan take a deep breath, dive into the recent past and review 2015 in politics, featuring:

- water protests

- a marriage referendum

- economic recovery

- competence (or less incompetence?) of the Government

- Fianna Fail's raison d'etre,

- the Sinn Fein conundrum

- and more besides.

Finally, Fintan expresses optimism for Irish society and a prediction for the general election.

Happy Christmas to all our listeners from the Inside Politics team.