Red Lines
By BBC Radio Ulster
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The back-stop’s here? Bad puns with top political coverage from Northern Ireland. Red Lines brings you essential analysis and commentary by BBC NI’s politics team.
| Episode | Date |
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Contest or coronation
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Jan 07, 2026 |
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The Review of 2025
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Dec 17, 2025 |
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Stormont: A bicker a day?
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Dec 10, 2025 |
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The One Where Rachel Increased Tax on Lattes.
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Nov 26, 2025 |
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Stormont 2.0
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Nov 12, 2025 |
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Yellow plateau?
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Oct 29, 2025 |
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Fintan versus Sam: The united Ireland debate.
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Oct 14, 2025 |
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Labour intensive
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Oct 01, 2025 |
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IMF fear for Keir
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Sep 17, 2025 |
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The Lord Alderdice Interview
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Aug 27, 2025 |
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The Hilary Benn Interview
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Aug 20, 2025 |
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The Colum Eastwood Interview
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Aug 13, 2025 |
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The Sorcha Eastwood Interview
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Aug 06, 2025 |
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The Pat Cullen Interview
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Jul 30, 2025 |
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The Angela Smith Interview
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Jul 23, 2025 |
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The Julian Smith Interview
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Jul 16, 2025 |
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The George Mitchell Interview
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Jul 09, 2025 |
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The Doug Beattie Interview
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Jul 02, 2025 |
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Stormont's Report Card - Who made the grade?
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Jun 25, 2025 |
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Leo Varadkar - Unity's poster boy or unionist bogeyman?
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Jun 19, 2025 |
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Casement spark?
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Jun 11, 2025 |
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Jailhouse Unlocked
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May 28, 2025 |
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It's Show time
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May 14, 2025 |
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The Race for the Áras
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Apr 30, 2025 |
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Trump, Tariffs and Trade deals
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Apr 16, 2025 |
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Sting Statement
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Mar 26, 2025 |
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Capitol Skill
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Mar 12, 2025 |
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The case for the Defence
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Feb 26, 2025 |
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Green, White House, and Orange
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Feb 12, 2025 |
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Trump Power
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Jan 29, 2025 |
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Next year delivery
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Jan 15, 2025 |
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The Big 2024 Review
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Dec 19, 2024 |
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The South Poll
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Nov 13, 2024 |
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The Big Budget Special
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Oct 31, 2024 |
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The 200th Episode
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Oct 16, 2024 |
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Get with the Programme!
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Sep 11, 2024 |
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The Denis Bradley Interview
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Aug 30, 2024 |
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The Máirtín Ó Muilleoir Interview
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Aug 23, 2024 |
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The Edwin Poots Interview
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Aug 16, 2024 |
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The Claire Hanna Interview
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Aug 02, 2024 |
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Red Faces
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Jul 10, 2024 |
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The Constituency Profiles: Fermanagh South Tyrone, West Tyrone and Mid Ulster
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Jul 02, 2024 |
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The Constituency Profiles: Belfast North, South, East and West.
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Jun 26, 2024 |
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The Constituency Profiles: North, South and East Antrim.
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Jun 19, 2024 |
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The Constituency Profiles: Lagan Valley, Upper Bann and Newry & Armagh
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Jun 12, 2024 |
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The Constituency Profiles: Foyle & East Londonderry
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Jun 05, 2024 |
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The Constituency Profiles: N Down, S Down and Strangford.
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May 29, 2024 |
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Stop the votes?
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May 15, 2024 |
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From unionism to unity
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May 09, 2024 |
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The Stormont Insider - Money for nothing
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Apr 17, 2024 |
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Pact to the future
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Mar 27, 2024 |
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Casement snark
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Feb 21, 2024 |
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Back to School
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Feb 06, 2024 |
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Red Lines: The Michelle O'Neill interview
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Feb 01, 2024 |
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Is anyone in charge?
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Jan 17, 2024 |
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The Long and the Short of 2023
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Dec 13, 2023 |
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Red, White and New
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Nov 24, 2023 |
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Sinn Féin: Will their day come in 2024?
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Nov 08, 2023 |
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Has Sir Jeffrey played a blinder?
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Oct 11, 2023 |
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Blue Lights
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Sep 14, 2023 |
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Red Lines: The Eamonn McCann Interview
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Aug 23, 2023 |
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Red Lines: the Ciarán Hinds Interview
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Aug 16, 2023 |
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Red Lines: The Kate Hoey Interview
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Aug 09, 2023 |
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Red Lines: The Joe Brolly Interview
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Aug 02, 2023 |
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Season Finale - What next?
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Jul 11, 2023 |
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The Troubles: Disputed narratives.
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Jul 05, 2023 |
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Self Defence
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Jun 29, 2023 |
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Stuffed or stuck? What next for the SNP & Scottish independence?
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Jun 21, 2023 |
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United Ireland: For richer or poorer?
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Jun 14, 2023 |
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Trading the Union
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Jun 07, 2023 |
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Three Derry Corner
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May 31, 2023 |
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Red Lines: Redrawing the electoral map?
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May 23, 2023 |
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'Vote till you boke'
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May 17, 2023 |
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#LE23 Other
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May 10, 2023 |
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#LE23 - Nationalists
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May 03, 2023 |
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#LE23 - Unionists
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Apr 26, 2023 |
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Getting the band back together
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Apr 19, 2023 |
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The President is coming to town.
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Apr 05, 2023 |
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GFA#3 The Dealmakers
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Mar 29, 2023 |
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From our own Correspondents
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Mar 22, 2023 |
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Playing the part
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Mar 15, 2023 |
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Taking on the trolls
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Mar 08, 2023 |
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Unravelling the Windsor knot
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Mar 01, 2023 |
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GFA#2 Women of the hour
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Feb 22, 2023 |
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D(UP)-Day
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Feb 15, 2023 |
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Reading the Right
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Feb 08, 2023 |
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Coiled springs?
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Feb 01, 2023 |
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GFA25: Ep 1 - The Fourth Estate
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Jan 25, 2023 |
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Caution;Tunnel Ahead
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Jan 18, 2023 |
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Protocol, pounds and patients
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Jan 11, 2023 |
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Review of the Year
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Dec 20, 2022 |
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Leo V 2.0
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Dec 14, 2022 |
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Let's Stick Together
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Dec 07, 2022 |
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Malcolm in the Middle
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Nov 30, 2022 |
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The Seven Year Itch
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Nov 23, 2022 |
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The Brady Bunch
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Nov 16, 2022 |
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University challenges
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Nov 09, 2022 |
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Premature election
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Nov 02, 2022 |
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North Poll at Christmas?
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Oct 26, 2022 |
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Brought to book
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Oct 20, 2022 |
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Mission Impossible?
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Oct 12, 2022 |
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Tory story
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Oct 05, 2022 |
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In Liz we Truss?
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Sep 28, 2022 |
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New beginnings?
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Sep 21, 2022 |
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Red Lines: The Claire Sugden Interview
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Aug 24, 2022 |
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Red Lines: The Bernadette McAliskey Interview
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Aug 17, 2022 |
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Red Lines: The Conor Burns Interview
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Aug 10, 2022 |
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Red Lines: The Michelle O'Neill interview
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Aug 03, 2022 |
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What about us?
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Jul 07, 2022 |
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The bonus episode: Leo Varadkar
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Jul 04, 2022 |
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What a difference a year makes
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Jun 29, 2022 |
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Constitutional conundrum
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Jun 22, 2022 |
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Peter Weir: My political autopsy
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Jun 14, 2022 |
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Is it bye bye Boris?
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Jun 08, 2022 |
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Kelly's Goodbye
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Jun 01, 2022 |
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Mervyn's story
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May 25, 2022 |
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Hybridity working?
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May 18, 2022 |
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Election reflection
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May 11, 2022 |
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The last lap
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May 04, 2022 |
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Breaking the boundaries: North, South, East and West Belfast
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Apr 27, 2022 |
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Breaking the boundaries: Foyle and East Londonderry
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Apr 13, 2022 |
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Breaking the boundaries:North Down, South Down and Strangford
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Apr 06, 2022 |
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Breaking the boundaries: North Antrim, East Antrim, and South Antrim
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Mar 30, 2022 |
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Breaking the boundaries: Fermanagh & South Tyrone, Mid Ulster, and West Tyrone
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Mar 23, 2022 |
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Breaking the boundaries: Lagan Valley, Upper Bann and Newry & Armagh
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Mar 16, 2022 |
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And they're off...
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Mar 09, 2022 |
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A devolution revolution?
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Mar 02, 2022 |
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What state is political nationalism in?
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Feb 22, 2022 |
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The troubles with Belfast
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Feb 15, 2022 |
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It's the way you tell'em...
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Feb 09, 2022 |
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The art of politics and the politics of art
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Feb 02, 2022 |
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What's another year?
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Jan 26, 2022 |
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Sinn reign?
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Jan 19, 2022 |
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2022 vision
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Jan 12, 2022 |
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100 not out
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Dec 21, 2021 |
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Paperback Writers
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Dec 15, 2021 |
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Reporting the Republic
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Dec 08, 2021 |
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Hidden history
|
Dec 01, 2021 |
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Poll Positions
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Nov 23, 2021 |
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Anglo-Irish disagreements
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Nov 17, 2021 |
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State of the Union
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Nov 10, 2021 |
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Riot Grrrls
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Nov 03, 2021 |
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Time to catch our breath
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Oct 27, 2021 |
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Political fact and fiction
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Oct 20, 2021 |
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It's Complicated!
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Oct 13, 2021 |
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Conference calling
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Oct 05, 2021 |
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Pact Hunch
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Sep 29, 2021 |
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Northern Writes
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Sep 22, 2021 |
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Writ and Wrong
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Sep 15, 2021 |
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Here we go again...
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Sep 08, 2021 |
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The rise & fall of Edwin Poots
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Jun 23, 2021 |
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Sinn Féin's gambit?
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Jun 16, 2021 |
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How to make capital on the Hill
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Jun 09, 2021 |
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I'm a Politician... Get Me Out of Here!
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Jun 02, 2021 |
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Poll Position
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May 26, 2021 |
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Unpicking the Poots Putsch
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May 19, 2021 |
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Ruffling feathers in Foyle
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May 12, 2021 |
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A reformation for Protestants?
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May 05, 2021 |
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Over & Oust
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Apr 28, 2021 |
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Bengoa Calling
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Apr 21, 2021 |
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Royals, republicans and rancour
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Apr 14, 2021 |
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Funeral fallout
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Mar 31, 2021 |
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Uniting Ireland? Views from the Republic.
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Mar 24, 2021 |
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Céad Míle Zooms
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Mar 16, 2021 |
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The Impartial Reporter
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Mar 10, 2021 |
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Making a drama out of a crisis
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Mar 03, 2021 |
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Lifting lockdown
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Feb 24, 2021 |
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Red herrings & Swiss cheese
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Feb 17, 2021 |
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'United Kingdom, disunited message'
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Feb 10, 2021 |
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EU-turn if you want to.
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Feb 03, 2021 |
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Brake for the border...
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Jan 27, 2021 |
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Make America relate again
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Jan 20, 2021 |
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Zooming into Stormont
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Jan 13, 2021 |
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Union flak?
|
Jan 06, 2021 |
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Covid-19 in 2020
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Dec 16, 2020 |
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Talks, deals and a 'forty foot barge pole'
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Dec 09, 2020 |
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Legacy troubles
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Dec 02, 2020 |
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Centenary Sensitivities
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Nov 25, 2020 |
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Mandatory collision
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Nov 18, 2020 |
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The Biden Identity
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Nov 11, 2020 |
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Union flagging?
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Nov 04, 2020 |
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Polls: Leaders, parties & the border
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Oct 28, 2020 |
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Devenport departs
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Oct 21, 2020 |
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Briefing Encounters 2 - Judgement Day
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Oct 14, 2020 |
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America votes on Mass
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Oct 07, 2020 |
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Will Irish see border?
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Sep 30, 2020 |
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Presidential reflection
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Sep 25, 2020 |
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Sexism in 2020
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Sep 23, 2020 |
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Britannia waives the rules?
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Sep 16, 2020 |
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The Lord Chief Justice Interview
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Sep 10, 2020 |
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Julian Smith : Politics, persuasion & pints.
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Jul 15, 2020 |
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The Micheál Martin interview
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Jul 12, 2020 |
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Stormont in a tea cup?
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Jul 08, 2020 |
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Micheál matters?
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Jul 01, 2020 |
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Independence Days
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Jun 24, 2020 |
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'Cute Hoors' & Blueshirts.
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Jun 17, 2020 |
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O'Leary, Newton, John
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Jun 10, 2020 |
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Yes Ministers
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Jun 03, 2020 |
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Could Covid kill the Union?
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May 27, 2020 |
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Top Trumps
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May 20, 2020 |
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Getting your steps up
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May 13, 2020 |
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How the dealin's done
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May 06, 2020 |
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Briefing encounters
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Apr 29, 2020 |
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Crisis Critique
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Apr 22, 2020 |
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Frontline reporting from the back garden
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Apr 08, 2020 |
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Lock-in vs Lockdown
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Apr 01, 2020 |
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Asking the right questions?
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Mar 25, 2020 |
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RHI: Every single jot and tittle
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Mar 18, 2020 |
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Capitol Gains
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Mar 11, 2020 |
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Equality Street
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Mar 04, 2020 |
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Trading trouble
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Feb 25, 2020 |
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On SPAD-batical
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Feb 18, 2020 |
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Dáilsplaining
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Feb 11, 2020 |
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Dearg Lines
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Feb 04, 2020 |
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Brexitpast
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Jan 28, 2020 |
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Calling a SPAD a SPAD
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Jan 21, 2020 |
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Stormont returns (with added SOSNI)
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Jan 14, 2020 |
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A holding pattern in high heels
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Jan 09, 2020 |
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Clear and presenter danger
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Dec 17, 2019 |
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Paper candidates
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Dec 11, 2019 |
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Alliance & Westminster: Alliance election profile
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Dec 03, 2019 |
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Dups and downs: DUP election profile
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Nov 26, 2019 |
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Shinner thoughts: Sinn Féin election profile
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Nov 19, 2019 |
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Shrinking Down or Larger Party? SDLP election profile
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Nov 12, 2019 |
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Politics un-pact: UUP election profile
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Nov 05, 2019 |
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Will Boris trade the Union?
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Oct 30, 2019 |
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Newton lays down the law
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Oct 21, 2019 |
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When the dealin's done?
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Oct 17, 2019 |
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The writers' room
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Oct 15, 2019 |
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Tweets, trolls and tots
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Oct 08, 2019 |
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No vox popery here...
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Oct 01, 2019 |
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Joris Bohnson vs the Supreme Court
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Sep 24, 2019 |
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Finn McCool, the capybara & a tub of lard
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Sep 17, 2019 |
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Apologies in advance...
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Sep 10, 2019 |