Harris delivers on Stardust as McEntee fumbles the border question
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Hugh Linehan is joined by Pat Leahy and Harry McGee to look back on the week in politics: Taoiseach Simon Harris’s sure-footed performance as he delivered an apology to the Stardust tragedy victims. Less good was Minister for Justice Helen McEntee’s appearance at an Oireachtas committee, where she struggled to answer a question about the State’s handling of international protection applicants. Discussions about budget spending are starting early this year, a sign of the auction politics to come in the run-up to the general election. Plus the panel pick their Irish Times articles of the week: Justine McCarthy on the growing number of journalists becoming Government advisors. Finn McRedmond in defence of snobbery. And coverage of the dysfunction in University Hospital Limerick, as revealed by a coroner’s report on the tragic death of teenager Aoife Johnston. Sign up for Politics push alerts and have the best news, analysis and comment delivered directly to your phone Find The Irish Times on WhatsApp and stay up to date Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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