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RTE World Report

By peterPosted on 7th June 2012Posted in UncategorizedTagged Alex Salmond, Patrick Harvie, RTE, World Report, Yes Scotland

I made my debut on RTE’s excellent World Report on Sunday, June 3. My contribution, about the Yes Scotland launch in Edinburgh and the campaign for independence, is the third piece in. Click here to listen to my World Report piece

Talking Scottish Independence with Pat Kenny

By peterPosted on 23rd January 2012Posted in Politics, ScotlandTagged Alex Salmond, Indepdence, RTE, Today with Pat Kenny

I appeared on the excellent Today with Pat Kenny program on RTE on January 12, talking about Scottish independence referendum vote and what an independent Scotland might look like. As the Today with PK site says, ‘This is shaping up to be the UK’s most serious constitution crisis since southern Ireland quit the union in […]

#ge11 – The roadtrip analysed

By peterPosted on 13th April 2011Posted in Ireland, Politics, Society and CultureTagged #GE11, RTE

I spent election day 2011 in the company of Mick Fealty from Slugger taking a roadtrip around Ireland as part of RTE’s election coverage. Here’s what we found: As former US Senator Tip O’Neill once quipped: ‘All politics is local’. The election campaign was dominated by national issues – jobs, emigration, the economy – but […]