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Hugh Linehan @hlinehan.bsky.social · 06/05/2026

Thanks to everyone who came along to our live show in Galway last night. We had great fun (which is obviously the most important thing) but also got great questions from the audience who were also polite enough to laugh at our jokes. www.irishtimes.com/podcasts/ins...

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Inside Politics Live in Galway: Who can win the Galway West byelection?

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Hugh Linehan @hlinehan.bsky.social · 09/04/2026

The Irish Times Inside Politics team are saddling up and heading into the west for a LIVE BY-ELECTION SPECIAL in Galway City on May 5th. Booking details here. events.irishtimes.com/events/159271

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Hugh Linehan @hlinehan.bsky.social · 12/12/2025

Thanks to everyone for the many thoughtful and thought-provoking responses we received to Wednesday’s Inside Pilitics. On today’s Friday wrap with Ellen and Jack we touch on some of that alongside other issues of the week. www.irishtimes.com/podcasts/ins...

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Will Fianna Fáil’s presidential campaign review put more pressure on Martin?

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Hugh Linehan @hlinehan.bsky.social · 02/12/2025

‘At its worst, the programme descends into the familiar parade of sectoral advocates and veteran pundits. You know the voices before you hear the names; you know the lines before they say them.’ My column today on Morning Ireland. www.irishtimes.com/media/2025/1...

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Does RTÉ's Morning Ireland need a refresh?

It would be easy to leave the State’s most popular radio programme untouched. But that would be a mistake

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Hugh Linehan @hlinehan.bsky.social · 11/11/2025

“For freelancers – who make up the bulk of arts journalists – the picture is even starker. Pay hasn’t matched inflation for decades, while the pool of outlets commissioning reviews has contracted, leaving patchwork careers held together by goodwill and side jobs.” www.irishtimes.com/business/202...

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Hugh Linehan: Is the newspaper arts review dying or could it be rescued by subscribers?

If one culprit looms behind these shifts, it is the early digital consensus that everything should be free

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Hugh Linehan @hlinehan.bsky.social · 21/09/2025

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Ellen Coyne @ellenmcoyne.bsky.social · 31/08/2025

Slight change of plan: we'll be on stage at the later time of 5.15 today so more time for a lie in if you need one ☀️ @hlinehan.bsky.social @irishtimes.com

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Ellen Coyne @ellenmcoyne.bsky.social · 29/08/2025

See you on Sunday 😊 🎪 🎵 🍻

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Hugh Linehan @hlinehan.bsky.social · 29/08/2025

Come and join @ellenmcoyne.bsky.social Jack Horgan Jones, Pat Leahy and me for the Inside Politics live show at noon on Sunday in Mindfield at #electricpicnic.

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Hugh Linehan @hlinehan.bsky.social · 19/08/2025

‘On the one hand, the most grandiose predictions of imminent machine overlords or silicon utopias seem, at best, premature. On the other, the technology is already reshaping fundamental aspects of how we work, learn and communicate.’ My cilumn today www.irishtimes.com/business/202...

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Hugh Linehan: Forget the futuristic dystopias - AI is changing the world right now

The backlash against changes to ChatGPT reveals how it is being used by users in their daily lives

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Hugh Linehan @hlinehan.bsky.social · 11/08/2025

The opening episode of our latest Inside Politics series drops today. Pat Leahy and I tell the story of three catastrophic years when hubris and deception came home to roost. Part one: bonfires in Offaly. www.irishtimes.com/podcasts/ins...

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Hugh Linehan @hlinehan.bsky.social · 08/08/2025

All those places are too hot and sunny for Donald.

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Brian Caulfield @briancaulfield.bsky.social · 23/07/2025

I joined @hlinehan.bsky.social and Pat Leahy this morning on the @irishtimes.com Inside Politics podcast to discuss yesterdays National Development Plan review launch. www.irishtimes.com/podcasts/ins...

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Will the Government’s big projects survive the next downturn?

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Hugh Linehan @hlinehan.bsky.social · 06/06/2025

I’m standing over this controversial view. Where do you go for a swim in Westport?

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Hugh Linehan @hlinehan.bsky.social · 16/05/2025

Looking forward to discussing America’s current political moment with Senator Bernie Sanders and his chief adviser Jane O’Meara Sanders in Vicar Street on May 27th. www.ticketmaster.ie/artist/52285...

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Hugh Linehan @hlinehan.bsky.social · 16/05/2025

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Hugh Linehan @hlinehan.bsky.social · 31/03/2025

www.irishtimes.com/business/202... Today’s column

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Hugh Linehan @hlinehan.bsky.social · 27/03/2025

Garron Noone controversy: ‘It propelled him into a different stratosphere, which is the culture war realm’ On today’s In the News podcast I discussed Garron Noone’s interesting week www.irishtimes.com/podcasts/in-...

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Garron Noone controversy: ‘It propelled him into a different stratosphere, which is the culture war realm’

In the News podcast: Whimsical comedian’s views on immigration sparked controversy

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Hugh Linehan @hlinehan.bsky.social · 24/03/2025

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Laura Slattery @lauraslattery.bsky.social · 13/03/2025

I don’t know Kathleen, but she clearly has great taste.

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Laura Slattery @lauraslattery.bsky.social · 11/03/2025

Today’s column is my 583rd in the media slot: Blank-tape bliss can never be repeated www.irishtimes.com/business/202...

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Hannah Daly @hannahdaly.ie · 10/03/2025

I joined @eamonryan.bsky.social and @hlinehan.bsky.social on the @irishtimes.com Inside Politics podcast. We discussed the billions in fines faced by Ireland for missing EU climate commitments. podcasts.apple.com/ie/podcast/i...

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Will falling behind on climate cost Ireland billions?

Podcast Episode · Inside Politics with Hugh Linehan · 10/03/2025 · 40m

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Hugh Linehan @hlinehan.bsky.social · 08/03/2025

Argh. Broken link. ywww.irishtimes.com/culture/2025...

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Hugh Linehan @hlinehan.bsky.social · 08/03/2025

This is my last column for Ticket. It’s almost 25 years since the supplement launched under my editorship. I have a few thoughts about it all…

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Women for Election @womenforelection.bsky.social · 19/02/2025

With Ireland 99th in world for the no. of women in parliament what next for #morewomen? Listen to WfE chair, Aldagh McDonogh, @jenniferbray.bsky.social @hlinehan.bsky.social dicuss challenges & solutions to having a better politics with a balance pf men & women www.irishtimes.com/podcasts/ins...

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Hugh Linehan @hlinehan.bsky.social · 12/02/2025

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Hugh Linehan @hlinehan.bsky.social · 11/02/2025

I’ve actually talked to Michael before and challenged him on some of these issues. It may well be that I was too soft but if so it was in the hope of giving listeners an insight into a worldview they usually get indirectly (unless they spend too much time in the other place, obviously).

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Hugh Linehan @hlinehan.bsky.social · 11/02/2025

Hi Clare. I good no brief for Orban and abhor the proposed ethnic but I think it’s important listeners hear the views that are currently driving US policy. You will have heard plenty of critical voices on Trumpiam in the past and will do so again in the future.

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Hugh Linehan @hlinehan.bsky.social · 10/02/2025

On today’s podcast I talk to Michael Brendan Dougherty about why he voted for Trump and how he thinks it’s going. www.irishtimes.com/podcasts/ins...

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Michael Brendan Dougherty: how Trump won me over

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Gavin Daly @gavinjdaly.bsky.social · 09/02/2025

Brilliant portrait by @hlinehan.bsky.social of my daily reality “Everything is grimy, shabby and dispiriting. It’s in places like these that Dublin feels like a city designed by people who despise its inhabitants.” www.irishtimes.com/opinion/2025...

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Hugh Linehan: Too often, Dublin feels like a place designed by people who despise its inhabitants

But the place I walk through every day is also full of opportunity and life. It is, in its own way, quite beautiful

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Patrick Freyne @patrickfreyne.bsky.social · 07/02/2025

Rhiannon Giddens singing a song associated with the civil rights movement as part of the "insane" "woke" Irish "musical" funded by USAID (actually a US embassy event). It's great. As written about by @hlinehan.bsky.social here: www.irishtimes.com/culture/stag... www.youtube.com/watch?v=JZ8R...

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Rhiannon Giddens & Francesco Turrisi - I Shall Not Be Moved | Live at Other Voices Dignity (2022)

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Hugh Linehan @hlinehan.bsky.social · 01/02/2025

True. But AI is at the centre of developments in social media and search, as well as in copyright law and the creative economy. But yes, I should have been clearer on that.

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Hugh Linehan @hlinehan.bsky.social · 01/02/2025

‘You won’t get any of them to admit it, but there will have been glum faces among those who run the State’s culture industries when O’Donovan’s name was pulled out of Micheál Martin’s hat nine days ago.’ www.irishtimes.com/culture/2025...

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Hugh Linehan: New Culture minister Patrick O’Donovan has inherited two pressing issues. His record doesn’t instil confidence

Ireland’s cultural sector was hoping for an inspiring choice of Minister. Instead it’s faced with Trumpian weave

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