Alan Barrett
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502 appearances
4 recordings
2 series
first heard May 2026
last heard 2d ago
Alan Barrett’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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And I think it's actually Eoghan O'Malley himself makes reference to something we haven't talked about for a long time, which is the possibility of a Sinn Féin Fianna Fáil coalition after the next election.
So huge amounts of movement, a huge amount of things happening.
And can I also say the other thing that's lurking in the background, of course, then is the by-elections.
And it's very difficult not to read the polls in the context of the by-elections and then the implications for the possibility of success, for example, of independent Ireland in Galway West.
And then where Sinn Féin will exactly, because again, normally at this stage in a political cycle, the main opposition party would be expected to be doing extremely well in by-elections if not winning them.
There seems to be a consensus that if Sinn Féin were to lose both, that that would be very, very damaging for them at this stage.
Shane, you were looking at that piece too.
Yeah, I mean, I find a lot of the discussion kind of troubling.
And I mean, Alison read out one of the headlines there was this notion of the Fine Gael TDs putting pressure for largesse in the budget.
So we began this discussion today from memories.
This was like a long time ago, talking about AI.
and the disruption that was causing.
And I think there are a lot of vulnerabilities in the Irish economy at the moment, the world economy and the Irish economy in particular.
And I think people like me have begun to really, really worry that we are now seeing things happening in a sort of a drift of discussion that mirrors a little bit around the sort of the 2006, 2007 and 2008 period.
And the comparison is in the 2006, 7, 8, that was the sort of the height of the Celtic Tiger.
So we thought there was no problem that arose that money didn't solve.
And we had a general election in 2000, which was remarkable for the extent of which the promises that were made.
So Fianna Fáil, in a sense, get a lot of blame for this.
OK, but there was plenty of other people that were urging as much spending as possible.
We're now in a situation where obviously there is a lot of money flowing into the economy, but a lot of us worry that this could be transitory.
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