The Post Podcast

After weeks of intense campaigning on both sides the Eighth Amendment referendum is drawing to close with the Yes and No sides holding their final campaign events yesterday.

While polls show a clear lead for Yes, the No campaign is mounting a last-ditch effort to move the undecideds to its side and convince soft Yes voters that the government’s proposals to legislate for abortion in the event of repeal go too far.

The Sunday Business Post’s Public Affairs Editor Mary Regan is joined by Political Correspondent Hugh O’Connell to discuss the final hours of the campaign ahead of Friday’s vote.

With the civil war raging between Theresa May and her party’s extreme Brexiteers, the threat of a hard border is as real as ever. Sunday Business Post political editor Michael Brennan and political correspondent Hugh O'Connell discuss the potentially disastrous consequences for Ireland of the Tory in-fighting.

It’s two weeks since Vicky Phelan broke down in tears outside the High Court after settling her case with a US lab for misreading cervical smear tests. The Health Minister has announced a scoping exercise to find out why she and others were not informed of their inaccurate smear results earlier and to determine if the screening service is as good as it should be.

As politicians focus on the position of HSE boss, Tony O'Brien, some 900 women a day are ringing a national helpline looking for answers. In this week’s post podcast, Mary Regan is joined by Susan Mitchell, and asks if things should have been handled differently.

Hosted by Colette Sexton, Media Matters talks to industry experts on the issues that really matter on the first Wednesday of every month.

This month’s episode features Gillian Fitzpatrick, Her Channel Editor at Maximum Media, whose current role includes overseeing content for female-targeted websites including Her.ie and Herfamily.ie.

She talks about the differences between print and digital media, the changing advertising landscape - and why users now hate clickbait.

Following the controversy over his handing of the proposed INM acquisition of Celtic Media, communications minister Denis Naughten must now decide on the proposed takeover of the Irish Examiner by the Irish Times. The deal comes as a new Press Freedom report says that the highly concentrated nature of media ownership in Ireland continues to pose a major threat to press freedom. To discuss the deal and its impact, Colette sexton talks with Ian Kehoe.

Are any of the independents fulfilling their pact to do politics differently? The Independent Alliance promised to be radical but responsible. Their arguments over positioning suggest they've been neither. In this week's Post Podcast Public Affairs editor Mary Regan is joined by Political Correspondent Hugh O'Connell to talk about the performance of independent politicians and their impact on Irish politics.

Nearly a decade after they were banned as part of the bailout of the financial system, bonuses for bankers are back on the agenda. In the coming days, the Bank of Ireland and AIB will ask shareholders to ease the way for the reintroduction of bonuses. Among those shareholders is the government. So what will the state do? Ian Guider and Ian Kehoe discuss the policy and the politics of bank bonuses.

What lies in store for financial markets for the rest of 2018 after a turbulent start to the year? In the first of a series of special podcasts Gavin Curran and David Murphy of KBC Bank discuss the positive global economic backdrop, the outlook for interest rates and the return of volatility with Sunday Business Post Markets Editor Ian Guider.

New research from the Central Bank shows that the owners of more than 14,000 homes that are in long-term arrears in Ireland could lose their properties. The data also reveals almost four out of ten mortgage-holders in deep arrears are not engaging with their lender on restructuring their loan. So are we finally heading towards a tsunami of repossessions? In this special edition of the Post Podcast, Francesca Comyn and Ian Kehoe talk about the data and the thorny issue repossessions.

When Fine Gael and Fianna Fáil reached their confidence and supply deal almost two years ago, few thought they would go the distance. Fine Gael ministers believe the recent rhetoric of Fianna Fáil underscores the extent to which Fianna Fáil has now reverted to being a traditional opposition party and is determined to force an election. Hugh O'Connell and Michael Brennan discuss the two parties' conscious uncoupling as well as Micheál Martin's recent criticism of the Irish Independent on Twitter.