“There isn’t a demand for a centre-right party, because if there was a demand, we would have one. We’ve had ones in the past.”
Gary Murphy has long been one of the country’s most prescient and articulate political analysts. And, unlike many of his academic contemporaries, Murphy is not afraid to share his views. However, in an age of online abuse, he understands why many of his younger colleagues opt to stay off the airwaves. In this podcast with Ian Kehoe, the DCU politics professor also talks about his roots in Cork, how he got interested in politics, and how politics itself has changed over the decades. He also talks about how Irish political parties have shifted to the left, as evidenced by the economic platforms of Fine Gael and Fianna Fáil. He gives his views on Sinn Fein, the independents, and the electoral malaise of the parties of the soft left.
