Mary Regan

speaker

767 appearances 11 recordings 4 series first heard Apr 2026 last heard 12 Sep

Mary Regan’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.

Trend

recordings per month · last 12 months

Recordings per month over the last 12 months — 11 in all, peaking in Jun 2026 with 3.

Appearances

newest first · ▶ plays the moment

The Indo Daily · Indo Politics: Sinn Féin’s identity crisis, the Soc Dem surge and the growing battle over OTB · 30 May 2026 podcast

It was always the case that the left couldn't get their act together to coalesce, to form a government, that there was too much in fighting between them.

Then it seemed they rallied around Catherine Connolly and they thought, OK, there's a future here for an alliance of the left, for a potential government of the left.

And it didn't really last very long.

And then you had the Galway West result, a victory for Sean Cain, Fine Gael candidate, drawing comparisons to Noel Tracy, who won a by-election for the government back in the early 80s.

But Sean Cain won largely because of transfers, mainly from Fianna Fáil.

So you're also seeing a sort of transfer-packed thing growing between Fianna Fáil and Fine Gael, which is going to complicate competition between them because...

whichever one of them gets ahead in a particular constituency will gobble up the votes of the other.

So it's kind of coming to this sort of European style politics where it's all about building alliances and relationships and no party kind of breaking through bigger than the other.

And what you're left with is loads of kind of medium sized parties.

So it's a very different political future than what we've known in the past.

going into the next government.

Definitely, and the number one lesson I think for parties coming from these by-elections is choose your candidates really, really, really carefully because it really does matter.

Well, at least we have the Siannads by-elections to look forward to in the summer.

That's it from us for now.

Thanks Maeve for chatting to us here in studio today.

If you liked listening, please subscribe to our YouTube channel where you'll find plenty more

on IndoPolitics.

Until next week, thanks for watching.

The Indo Daily · By-Elections: Daniel Ennis leads the way in Dublin as Sinn Féin and Fianna Fáil falter · 23 May 2026 podcast

This is an Irish Independent podcast.

Hi, Conal here from the Irish Independence Politics team.

Showing 481–500 of 767 · page 25 of 39