Hugh Linehan is joined by Cormac McQuinn and Jennifer Bray to discuss the week in politics:

· The last fortnight has seen several incidents of councillors being verbally and physically attacked while out canvassing for the forthcoming local elections. A disturbing trend that hasn’t been a feature of previous elections.

· The panel dig into what the Irish Times/Ipsos B&A poll results say about the volatility of public opinion right now.

· And neither current First Minister of Northern Ireland, Michelle O’Neill, or former First Minister of Northern Ireland, Arlene Foster, came away from the UK Covid-19 inquiry unscathed.

Bellringing for 65 years: ‘It’s great exercise but now that I’m 90 I only ring the lighter ones’

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Irish primary schoolchildren have been taught for generations that spring begins on February 1st, but is that true?

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‘A lot of things boys seem to instinctually love, we tend to be more dismissive of or even concerned about’

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Eli Hewson of Inhaler: ‘There’s so much nepotism in every facet of life’

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And the panel pick their favourite Irish Times pieces of the week:

· Ronan McGreevey writing 50 years on from the Dublin-Monaghan bombings.

· Laura Kennedy does the arithmetic of emigration.

· Stephen Collins writes of Micheál Martin’s political enemies postponing their big move.

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