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.
On February 20th, 1933, two dozen of Germany's wealthiest industrialists attended a meeting with Adolf Hitler. What transpired protected their wealth through the Nazi era and beyond. In this podcast, David de Jong, author of Nazi Billionaires, talks to Dion Fanning about how these men protected their wealth and the stories of those who were complicit and those who suffered.
A peer to pay payments company based on an escrow style concept, Trustap is signing up marketplaces across the world and is about to expand its offering to include delivery of items. In this podcast, founder and CEO Conor Lyden tells Rosanna Cooney about the advantage of starting the business right out of college, raising funds in the current climate and living as a penniless founder.
Manchester United have another new manager. Dion Fanning and Paul Flynn discuss what is needed to alter a culture in management while Sean Keyes looks at the Manchester United figures and sees some worrying developments for the club in the numbers.
Whether the EU can keep a united front in response to Russian aggression will also depend in large part on the outcome of this weekend’s runoff in the French presidential election. A President Le Pen would water down sanctions and try to rebuild relations with Putin.
To help us navigate the turbulent waters of European politics and policy at a time of war, Mujtaba Rahman talks to Ed Brophy. Mij is the Managing Director for Europe at the political risk consultancy Eurasia Group, and one of Europe’s leading political analysts. He leads and oversees Eurasia’s analysis and advisory work on Europe, helping clients to navigate the macro-politics of Brussels and its interaction with the member states across a wide range of policy areas.
Sinead O'Sullivan grew up in Armagh so it was a culture shock when she found herself in Harvard Business School, a training ground for American elites and "the home of unfettered capitalism". O'Sullivan learned the ways of American old money and, in a series for The Currency, wrote about investing in alternative assets like wine, art, watches, cars and farmland. In this podcast with Sean Keyes, she explains how the rich play a different game to ordinary investors.
“The freedom struggle begins again today against a foreign conspiracy of regime change,” Imran Khan tweeted as he departed office. He claimed that he was a victim of a US plot but as Professor Ayesha Jalal says in this podcast, he offered no proof. In this podcast with Dion Fanning, she explains why the US moved away from Pakistan and why the Biden administration were said to believe Khan was supporting Trump. Jalal also discusses what Imran Khan's departure means for relations with Russia, China as well as negotiations with the IMF, which had stalled.
Kevin Draper of the New York Times talks to Dion Fanning about how the sanctions imposed on the Kinahan gang will work and what boxing in the US and beyond will do now that the authorities have put a $5 million dollar bounty on Daniel Kinahan.
Alain Bertaud is an apostate. He trained as an architect and as a young man, worked with the renowned Le Corbusier. But over the course of a long career – in which he served as principal urban planner of the World Bank – Alain came to reject the architects' world view. Now, despite having no formal training, he could be fairly considered one of the world's foremost urban economists. In this podcast with Sean Keyes, he shares his views on what cities need from their governments, and the ways city governments get things wrong.
French people are voting this Sunday in the first round of the presidential election, with far-right candidate Marine Le Pen polling higher than ever in her challenge to the incumbent Emmanuel Macron. Dion Fanning asks Paris-based journalist Stephen Carroll and The Currency's French-born senior correspondent Thomas Hubert what is happening in a campaign overshadowed by the war in Ukraine and its consequences on the personal finances of French voters.
The Currency's Gaelic football analyst Paul Flynn and former Kerry great Marc Ó Sé discuss the chances of Kerry claiming their first All Ireland since 2014 and what Jack O'Connor's return - and the addition of critical members of the backroom team - has done for their chances.
