The Floating Voter

The first leaders’ TV debate was declared a 0-0 score draw by TV3 on Twitter and well, you can’t really argue with that can you?

The Floating Voter panel of INM political correspondents, Philip Ryan and Niall O’Connor, joined Group Political Editor, Kevin Doyle, to discuss the biggest tweeted TV show since the Late, Late Toy Show, and ask, did the public really learn anything at all?

The Floating Voter also asked if Leinster House is big enough for two Healy Raes? Now that Danny is running alongside his brother Michael in Kerry, how many motorways and hospitals will Kerry be paved with if the government needs to do a deal with them?

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And they’re off…

The politicians have hit the campaign trial in earnest and so too has The Floating Voter team.

For Enda Kenny it has been something of a false start as he struggled to cut through the ‘economic jargon’.

Niall O’Connor and Philip Ryan assess who is winning and losing the opening salvos of General Election 2016.

With Alan ‘Jelly’ Kelly, or is that AK47, dominating the headlines again there is plenty to discuss.

And Nicola Anderson reports on the gossip from the Fine Gael bus where she was sadly disappointed by the Taoiseach’s absence.

As always we want you to help ignite the conversation on Twitter using #FloatingVoter.

The Floating Voter is available every Tuesday and Friday.

The phoney war is over and it’s finally time to tear apart the ‘fiscal space’, put up the posters and dig up the dirt.

Things really ramp up a gear in the latest episode of ‘The Floating Voter’ with Niamh Horan from the Sunday Independent joining the team to discuss her now infamous interview with Alan Kelly.

The panel debate whether there’s a difference being muck-raking and legitimately digging up old stories at election.

And Independent.ie’s Jason Kennedy gets to grips with some of the latest candidate theme tunes.

As always we want you to help ignite the conversation on Twitter using #FloatingVoter.

The Floating Voter is available every Tuesday and Friday

Today the team are looking at the Michael Lowry controversy that has dominated the front pages for the past week.

It’s been both a good and a bad week for the Tipperary TD depending on whether you have a national or local viewpoint, leaving plenty for INM’s political correspondents Niall O’Connor and Philip Ryan to muse over.

With the Banking Inquiry finally producing its report this week, the Irish Independent’s Public Affairs Editor Shane Phelan joins the panel to ask was it really worth €6.5m – and why is the French banker Jean-Claude Trichet the scapegoat.

Jason Kennedy from independent.ie tells us what’s making a splash on social media.

And it’s a big weekend for the Labour Party with their pre-election conference taking place in Mullingar.

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Ruth Coppinger, ISIS and the fall of the Dail debate

What you can expect from the Fine Gael Ard Fheis this weekend

And as the tit-for-tat between Joan Burton and Mary Lou reaches new levels, are gender quotas really a good thing?

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INM Group Political Editor, Kevin Doyle, is joined by political correspondents, Philip Ryan and Niall O'Connor to cut through the political soundbytes and burst some of the general election bubble that surrounds Leinster House.

It was a good week for celebrity endorsements of Irish politicians - just ask Alan Kelly and Simon Harris who got the nod from John Delaney and Gay Byrne.

It was a bad week for GSOC, while Clare Cullen, Independent.ie's social media editor, give us the political buzz on social media.

Plus, Joan Burton's appointment of David Begg - is cronyism is alive and well on the Left?