When Jeffrey Donaldson was found guilty of all charges in a Newry Crown Court, it brought to an end one of the most appalling cases in recent history. Donaldson had pleaded not guilty but a jury found that he had committed multiple sex offences, including rape, against two women when they were children. In today’s podcast, a founding member of the DUP, Wallace Thompson, talks to Dion Fanning about the horrific case and what, if anything, Donaldson’s conviction means for unionism.
It is a topic that affects every household, every saver and every investor. But the relationship between inflation, risk and long-term financial planning is often misunderstood. For much of the decade following the global financial crisis, inflation seemed like a problem of the past – interest rates remained exceptionally low, cash deposits felt safe, and many people became accustomed to an environment where a rising cost of living wasn’t a major concern. But in recent years, we have been reminded that inflation never truly disappears. It can quietly erode purchasing power, it can diminish the value of savings, and it can significantly damage long-term financial outcomes. To unpack the issues around inflation, Ian Kehoe is joined in studio by Paul Callan, an investment strategist with the global wealth management firm Quilter Cheviot.
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Pope Leo spoke forcefully about the war in Iran and earned Donald Trump’s displeasure. His biographer Fr Michael Collins talks to Dion Fanning about what motivates a man his friends consider bland and the issues and intellectual obsessions that drive him.
What next for Sinn Féin? Since the by-election in Dublin Central and Galway West, the party has been scrutinised. Where does it stand on immigration? Is it moving away from the other left wing parties? Eoin Ó Broin talks to Dion Fanning and makes a case for the progressives.
Once We Were Punks tells the story of The Sons of Southern Ulster, a band made up of a group of friends from Bailieboro Co Cavan who form a band many decades after its first iteration disbanded. Film-maker Frank Shouldice talks to Dion Fanning about this story of life and loss.
Shane Ross’s new book takes a long view of the RTÉ crisis of 2023, identifying tensions and tussles that existed before RTÉ even launched in 1961. But what could have been done differently and how will RTÉ adapt to a changing world with a diminished reputation? Ross talks to Dion Fanning on today’s podcast.
Artificial intelligence — everyone’s talking about it. Companies are experimenting with it, implementing it, and embedding it across their operations. But it’s also starting to feel like AI isn’t just moving forward — it’s accelerating faster than the systems meant to keep it in check.
A new survey from PwC Ireland highlights that gap at the heart of the challenge. While most Irish companies have begun engaging with Responsible AI, far fewer have made it a core part of how they actually operate.
In the latest episode of The Tech Agenda podcast series, Keith Power, Responsible AI Leader with PwC Ireland, joins Ian Kehoe to explore what that means in practice and to offer advice to companies on their journey. The Tech agenda podcast series is sponsored by PwC Ireland.
Tony Griffin achieved huge success as a hurler as a player of 19 or 20 in a dressing room led by Ger Loughnane. Loughnane shaped these players but Griffin always had somewhere else he needed to go. He talks to Dion Fanning about an incredible journey and what young men need today to make sense of an uncertain world.
The disappearance of Tina Satchwell in 2017 became a story Ireland followed closely, because of the disquieting media appearances of her husband Richard Satchwell. Barry Cummins’s interview with Satchwell for Prime Time became a key part of the prosecution case when Satchwell’s trial began in 2025. Cummins’s new book tells that story. In this podcast, he tells Dion Fanning about his dealing with Richard Satchwell and all we still don’t know.
Backed by Rupert Murdoch and two other billionaires, Intrade was the Dublin-based company that can legitimately claim to be the world's first prediction market, 25 years before Kalshi and Polymarket achieved multi-billion-dollar valuations with similar business models. Intrade's first problem was that it was two decades ahead of its time – but that was just the start of its misadventures.
The Intrade story arc reads like a Netflix drama. When its founders left Dublin and flew home to New Jersey, they appointed a hugely ambitious young finance manager called John Delaney as the new CEO.
Delaney had grown up a house alongside the family pub in Ballinakill, County Laois and he arrived in Dublin with big dreams and a lot of attitude. He became far better known in the US than the unrelated FAI's chief executive of the same name, appearing regularly on business channels like CNBC and featuring in heavyweight publications like The Wall Street Journal and The New York Times.
Delaney was a risk-taker in the business world and outside it. In 2011, he made his second attempt to climb Mount Everest but collapsed and died when just 50 metres short of the summit. Two years after his death, Intrade suspended its customer accounts when it was discovered that almost $3 million of company funds had been transferred without explanation to bank accounts controlled by Delaney before his death.
Over the next two days, the full story of Intrade's rise and fall is told by Alan English, who was part of the management team when Delaney was first appointed back in 2000, after leaving his job in London at The Sunday Times.
There have been 40 million hits on the page for the 1926 census since its launch two weeks ago. It has been one of those national projects that captures the public’s imagination because of bold and ambitious decisions that made it come to life. The director of the National Archives, Orlaith McBride, talks to Dion Fanning about what the census tells us about Ireland.
