Pat Leahy and Ellen Coyne join Hugh Linehan to look back at the week in politics:

• Rent reform: the announcement of Minister for Housing James Browne’s plans to change the rules around rent pressure zones dominated the week. But why was the rollout so haphazard?

• Adjustments to residential property tax received less attention but the changes also carry political risk

• Israel’s attacks on Iran add further uncertainty to a fraught geopolitical moment

• Anti-immigrant riots in Northern Ireland: was the violence exacerbated by political interventions?

Plus the panel pick their favourite Irish Times articles of the week on topics including the dull ache brought on by remembering Ireland’s past attitudes to women, a critique of Irish media’s coverage of gender issues and how social media firms used the ‘like’ button to turbocharge their business models. 

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