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In this week’s episode, former Fianna Fáil minister and current Ireland South MEP Billy Kelleher talks about his role in helping Micheál Martin oust then Taoiseach Brian Cowen. He speaks about being assaulted as a minister during the period of the IMF Troika bailout and the damage Confidence and Supply did to his party since 2016.

In this week’s episode, Paul Hosford speaks to People Before Profit TD Paul Murphy about his dramatic election to the Dáil in 2014 off the back of the water charges protest movement. Murphy speaks candidly about the tactics used by the radical left to become a mass movement, his role in the controversial Jobstown protest and why he does not believe Joan Burton was terrorised.

In this week’s episode, Sinn Féin’s Louise O’Reilly sits down with Paul Hosford to talk through the early troubled days for Mary Lou McDonald after she succeeded Gerry Adams. She reveals how and why the party got it so wrong in the 2018 Presidential Election and the 2019 Local and European elections, only for the party to enjoy its greatest election success in early 2020. O’Reilly also makes clear her party will talk to anyone about forming the next Government when the time comes.

In the final episode in Series 1, we look at the circumstances of the resignation of then Tánaiste Frances Fitzgerald and the snap Christmas General Election that nearly was in 2017. Befuddled by a failure to answer clearly about the State’s treatment of Garda whistle-blower Maurice McCabe, Fitzgerald found herself at the epicentre of a firestorm and demands for her resignation from Fianna Fáil, which was supporting the minority government. O’Callaghan sits down with Daniel McConnell to detail his central role in those dramatic events.

With the 50th anniversary of Ireland’s entry into Europe upon us, in this episode former Taoiseach Bertie Ahern discusses his historic presidency of the EU in 2004, the enlargement of the union from 15 to 25 countries on his watch and the successful negotiation of a new EU constitution. Ahern also speaks candidly about his troubles with the Mahon Tribunal and why he turned down the offer to be President of the EU Commission.In this series, we look back at some of the most dramatic episodes in recent Irish political history from the unique perspective of one of the key players.Produced by Paul Hosford and Daniel McConnell.

Very few people know it, but in 2012, Ireland developed over many months a secret plan to reprint the punt as fears of a collapse of the Euro currency came close to being a reality.In this episode, former Labour leader and then Public Expenditure Minister Brendan Howlin reveals the details of that secret plan, which could have led to a new currency with the face of Michael D Higgins on it.In this series, we look back at some of the most dramatic episodes in recent Irish political history from the unique perspective of one of the key players.Produced by Paul Hosford and Daniel McConnell.