Ellen Coyne

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622 appearances 9 recordings 5 series first heard Apr 2026 last heard 18 Jun

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Today with David McCullagh · Could we see one off payments for EV’s and heat pumps? · 27 Apr 2026 podcast

So they'll be looking at it through the tax group within the Department of Finance and also through available capital, really burning through that surplus at a rate of knots at the moment.

But yeah, for this to have any political effect, it would have to be soon.

The Last Word with Matt Cooper · How A Cheating Scandal Shocked The World Of Irish Dancing · 21 Apr 2026 podcast

Ellen Coyne is a political correspondent at the Irish Times, but her new book, well, it's about a different type of politics.

It's about the politics of an organisation.

It's called Dirty Dancing, the book, which of course is a play on a very famous movie from the United States of the 20th century.

Ellen Coyne, tell us about your interest in Irish dancing and about the scandal which hit Irish dancing in recent years.

Well, to just confess, first of all, I had zero interest and in fact, zero knowledge of Irish dancing before this kind of landed in my lap.

Did you not do it as a child?

Well, only in the compulsory way that all of us do, but the very rudimentary set dancing.

I was nowhere near the glamour that you'd see in the INAC down in Clarny every February, like the gowns and the sparkle and probably most relevantly to me, the sporting prowess that's involved.

I just didn't really have that.

So it was never troubled by the world of Irish dancing until October 2022.

I got this weird anonymous email.

I still don't know who it was from or why it was sent to me.

Has it ever written about Irish dancing before?

And it had all this weird stuff in the subject line about how there was brown envelopes and backhanders and even...

an allegation of some sort of sex scandal in the world of Irish dancing.

So obviously I knew nothing about Irish dancing, but I did know a little bit about what a scoop is.

And I think that I could tell instantly that if even half of what this person was saying was true, it would be a very important and relevant story.

But had I known in 2022 that I'd still be writing about it in 2025, I don't know if would I have been as eager to reply as quickly as I did to that email.

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