Mick Clifford
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415 appearances
4 recordings
2 series
first heard Apr 2026
last heard 23 Aug
Mick Clifford’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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So I don't know what has changed since then in terms of the Messiah coming to rescue Fianna Fáil from this psychodrama.
I'm not saying there isn't a disconnect I'm just saying these so-called heaves which amount to tips against Micheál Martin they're continuous and I just wonder whether this is another one they suspect that it is even though things have changed he won't be there at the next election Derek I think Clare Scott and Jennifer Bray actually have quite a good piece analysing the week that was but you know they were saying all three perceived front runners had numbers behind them if they chose to act
I would have my suspicions.
There could well be some councillors, for instance.
I would have my suspicions about that there are any or maybe one or two TDs are suggesting it's above 10.
They're in hoopla mode because they had a very good protest in terms of how they came out of it.
And Ashley was talking there about, you know, no direction in the country.
Unfortunately, in my opinion, the only direction there seems to be in general around Western democracies at the moment that is new is that of the populist or far right.
And the only representative we have of anything that could be described anywhere near that in this country would be independent Ireland.
They might dispute that, and fair enough, but in terms of their politics, if you look at them...
Whether they can grow into an alternative force, I think, is very debatable because generally what we've seen in scenarios like this is that the mainstream parties adapt and shift themselves from where they are exactly in the centre ground to try and head off those type of entities.
We are relatively unusual in Western Europe.
that we don't have that kind of a populist right party.
Oh, definitely.
I mean, they've done that.
The most obvious thing there is after the 24 family in care referendum, which was perceived as, I think it's an awful term, that term wokeness was perceived as a backlash against that.
The three main parties on move to the right in immigration straight away and they shelled a hate speech law on the basis that, and they've consistently done that kind of thing.
But a lot of it depends on if we hit very bad economic straits,
Everything's up for grabs then, you know.
The root causes, though, I mean, you get back to that in America, you're talking about the Rust Belt states who are manufacturing the union jobs are all gone.
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