The Post Podcast

Should you be investing in AIB - and will the government get a good price for the bank? As Brexit negotiations start, will Ireland get a soft border with the North? And will Leo Varadkar's first week as Taoiseach be overshadowed by a justice and policing scandal? It's all up for discussion in this week's Post Podcast.

This week Ian Guider is joined by Sunday Business Post columnist and rugby pundit Tom McGurk, Sunday Business Post Editor Ian Kehoe and award-winning commentator and economist Stephen Kinsella. There are some lively exchanges as the guests cover off everything from Theresa May's deal with the DUP, Brexit, what Leo Varadkar as Taoiseach means for Irish political life and why the Lions Tour to New Zealand is well worth it.

This week Ian Guider is joined by Political Editor Michael Brennan and Political Correspondent Hugh O'Connell to discuss the priorities for incoming Taoiseach Leo Varadkar and his government - and to speculate on who's in and who's out of the cabinet. As INM reveals it is no longer proceeding with the proposed takeover of regional newspaper publisher Celtic Media, News Correspondent Colette Sexton offers some analysis on what might have gone on behind the scenes. And we'll be talking to our Business Correspondent Jack Horgan-Jones about how AIB's plans to sell of some of its toxic loans to a friendly vulture fund could yet come unstuck.

Ian Guider speaks to David Haslam, ‎Head of Retail at Irish Life Investment Managers

This week Sunday Post Business Editor Ian Kehoe assesses whether now is the right time to sell off AIB, Political Editor Michael Brennan and Red C's Richard Colwell decipher what the current Fine Gael leadership battle means for the future of politics in Ireland, while our Legal Affairs correspondent Francesca Comyn looks back on former Anglo Irish Bank chairman and chief executive Sean Fitzpatrick's 127-day trial and the future of the ODCE.

In this week's The Post podcast, our political team Michael Brennan and Hugh O'Connell discuss the Fine Gael leadership battle while Barry J Whyte explains the secret land deal between state forestry company Coillte and Apple that has attracted the attention of the EU competition authorities. Tom Lyons, author of the 'The FitzPatrick Tapes', and Legal Affairs Correspondent Francesca Comyn reflect on "the slow car crash" that was the trial of the former Anglo chairman and Jack Horgan-Jones on whether Ireland can expect an influx of British bankers.