Podcast: Crimes in the national interest

Fintan O’Toole and Kitty Holland join Hugh Linehan and Pat Leahy for discussion on abortion and tracker scandal

Could we be lurching towards an amendment to the amendment? File photographs: The Irish Times

Wed Oct 25 2017 - 15:04

On this week’s Inside Politics podcast, Hugh Linehan and Pat Leahy are joined by Social Affairs correspondent Kitty Holland and columnist Fintan O’Toole.

First on the agenda is the compromise reached last week at the abortion committee. Could we be lurching towards an amendment to the amendment?

Then we look at the history of banking "scandals" in Ireland, and why "scandal" will probably end up being the perfect word to describe the situation involving tracker mortgages: lots of hue and cry, with no-one ultimately held accountable.