Oct 22, 202623 minS8
Jim O’Callaghan’s stand-off with criminal solicitors just keeps on escalating. The justice minister has now accused striking solicitors of deliberately targeting rape cases. The backlash was quick, and judges are now...
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The Candidate
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The Candidate is hosted by The Journal. The show has published 117 episodes to date.
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Recent episodes include "The culture war over grandparents and justice on trial" (22 October 2026, 23 minutes), "The politest strike that has nobody losing face...yet" (15 October 2026, 20 minutes), and "Budget 2027: grand, we suppose" (7 October 2026, 26 minutes).
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The Candidate publishes roughly weekly, with episodes averaging 29 minutes across 117 episodes.
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- Oct 15, 202620 minS8
The public sector strike that saw 300,000 workers on the picket lines is the dominant political story of the week, but as yet nobody is getting pilloried over it. The unions say the government could have avoided the...
Episode #3
Budget 2027: grand, we suppose
Oct 7, 202626 minS8Budget 2027 has landed, and the reaction has been... well, extremely flat. There were tax changes, sure, and welfare increases too. Even a new savings scheme and plenty of measures aimed at the squeezed middle. But...
- Oct 1, 202634 minS8
The Garvaghy Road standoff has dragged Northern Ireland back into a dispute many thought we left in the 1990s. A proposed way out has failed, the Orange Order still wants to complete its parade, and residents remain...
- Sep 17, 202631 minS8
Donald Trump came to Ireland for 36 hours, watched a lot of golf, charmed the crowds at Doonbeg, promised to scrap tariffs on Irish whiskey and unexpectedly declared that he'd love to see a united Ireland. The...
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- Aug 25, 202647 minS7
Justice Minister Jim O'Callaghan joins us in studio for a sit-down interview. We asked him what needs to change after the M9 collision, whether the State is failing the small group of young people its youth justice...
- Jul 23, 202646 minS7
The Dáil has risen, Leinster House is quiet, and TDs are all off doing constituency work (as they tell us every year), so it's time for our political awards. Christine Bohan, Jane Matthews and Sinéad O'Carroll analyse...
- Jul 9, 202628 minS7
Nigel Farage resigned as an MP on Tuesday to trigger a byelection in which he's going to run in, and waited for the establishment to line up against him. They didn't. A handful of minor parties have put their names...
- Jul 2, 202621 minS7
Housing Minister James Browne has announced the biggest shake-up to rural planning rules in two decades. It should be easier for people to build homes in the countryside, but there's no target for how many new homes...
Episode #25
Parking Wars and parking the War on Drugs
Jun 25, 202624 minS7An Oireachtas committee spent years researching drug policy in Ireland and came back with a clear recommendation: decriminalise possession of all drugs for personal use, a shift from treating drug use as a criminal...
- Jun 18, 202625 minS7
Something unusual happened in the Dáil this week when a Sinn Féin proposal to scrap the three-day waiting period for abortion passed. An opposition bill getting through is rare enough, but this one came with a free vote...
Episode #23
We sat down with Tánaiste Simon Harris
Jun 10, 202644 minS7The Tánaiste and Fine Gael leader Simon Harris joins us in studio for a sit-down interview. We asked him why a man on a doorstep in Dublin Central called him the minister for press releases, about how Ireland is a...
- Jun 4, 202628 minS7
When Michael Healy-Rae resigned as minister in April, he walked out of the Dáil, put his fist in the air outside the gates, and told reporters he was standing with the people of Kerry. This week, he told a different...
Episode #21
Just how big could the Social Democrats get?
May 28, 202632 minS7Byelection fallout continues for Sinn Féin as Labour says Mary Lou's party is left-wing no more. And while Holly Cairns says a left-wing government is within 'touching distance', the question being asked now is just how...
Episode #20
Byelection results! What we know so far
May 23, 202618 minS7It's count day and we have the latest analysis live. In Dublin Central, Daniel Ennis of the Social Democrats has opened up a comfortable lead in what could potentially be a big moment for the party. Sinn Féin's Janice...
- May 21, 202629 minS7
Polls open on Friday in Dublin Central and Galway West, and both races are still wide open. The cost of living is the dominant issue on the doorsteps, rents have just hit record levels, and the fuel protests are still...
Episode #18
British psychodrama and Bertie's big blunder
May 14, 202624 minS7The vultures are circling Keir Starmer in a way that just doesn't happen in Irish politics. We ask why, and whether the difference between a prime minister on 19% approval and a Taoiseach on 38% is less about likability...
- May 7, 202621 minS7
Reports suggest Britain's King Charles is likely to visit Ireland on an official trip, possibly as soon as next year. His mother's visit in 2011 was a landmark moment, but it had a clear purpose along the lines of...
- Apr 30, 202630 minS7
In Dublin Central, Sinn Féin should be the favourites but the Social Democrats are quietly eating into their vote, and Gerry Hutch is back with a first-preference base that nobody should be ignoring. In Galway West...
- Apr 22, 202630 minS7
It's been nine days since a court heard that a former TD gave a character reference for a man convicted of sexually exploiting a 13-year-old boy at a children's camp. We still don't know their name, their party, or why...
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