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Last weekend's referendum defeats have jolted the political establishment. How could all major parties and many other players have got it so badly wrong - and does the failure reveal something deeper going on?To discuss this, Hugh is joined by Jack Horgan Jones, Theresa Reidy and Jane Suiter. They discuss the the impact of the results on Irish politics, the role and effectiveness of citizens assemblies, and whether opposition to 'wokeness' is a genuine force in Irish politics. Dr Theresa Reidy is a senior lecturer and head of department at the Department of Government and Politics, University College Cork.Jane Suiter is Professor in DCU's School of Communications and director of DCU's Institute for Future Media, Democracy and Society. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Ciara Doherty speaks to Brian Leddin TD, Thomas Gould TD, Hugh O'Connell, Jane Suiter, Keith Gavin & Olivia Kelly Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Het is zonder twijfel het meest heikele vraagstuk op het Ierse eiland: moeten Ierland en Noord-Ierland weer worden herenigd? Er wordt al over gesoebat sinds de opdeling van het eiland, iets meer dan 100 jaar geleden, met als dieptepunt uiteraard de bloedige terreurperiode van de troubles. Lang leek de kwestie een verre toekomstdroom, maar sinds de brexit is het gesprek erover in een stroomversnelling gekomen. Het Britse vertrek uit de Europese Unie wordt door Sinn Féin, de partij die in het noorden al de grootste is, en waarschijnlijk ook in het zuiden de volgende verkiezingen zal winnen, gezien als een unieke kans om de missie van een Verenigd Ierland te voltooien. De snelle groei van het katholieke, pro-Ierse deel van de bevolking in het noorden, plus de aantrekkingskracht van de economische voorspoed in het zuiden, maken dat de domino's langzaamaan in de richting van hereniging aan het vallen zijn. Volgens sommigen, zoals Irish Times-columnist Una Mullally, kan het zelfs over tien jaar al zover zijn. Toch zullen de Ieren een enorme kluif hebben aan een eventuele hereniging. De economische kloof tussen het noorden en het zuiden is groot, zo vertelt econoom Barra Roantree van Trinity College. Ook wordt de historische pijn van de troubles nog altijd gevoeld door de diverse gemeenschappen. En dan zijn er nog de vele praktische problemen, zo benadrukt politicoloog Jane Suiter, die maken dat veel Ieren in theorie wel oren hebben naar een hereniging, maar het niet altijd als een prioriteit zien. Toch zal Sinn Féin erop gebrand zijn om de kwestie bovenaan de politieke agenda te krijgen. Zullen de Ieren dit trage en delicate proces in goede banen weten te leiden, of starten ze hiermee hun eigen polariserende traject van brexitachtige proporties op? Over de maker Joost Dobber is correspondent in het Verenigd Koninkrijk voor Het Financieele Dagblad. Ook was hij te horen op BNR Nieuwsradio en te lezen in Trouw en De Tijd. Hij woont sinds 2019 in Londen, van waaruit hij verslag doet van de Brexit en van het komen en gaan van Britse premiers.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Het is zonder twijfel het meest heikele vraagstuk op het Ierse eiland: moeten Ierland en Noord-Ierland weer worden herenigd? Er wordt al over gesoebat sinds de opdeling van het eiland, iets meer dan 100 jaar geleden, met als dieptepunt uiteraard de bloedige terreurperiode van de troubles. Lang leek de kwestie een verre toekomstdroom, maar sinds de brexit is het gesprek erover in een stroomversnelling gekomen. Het Britse vertrek uit de Europese Unie wordt door Sinn Féin, de partij die in het noorden al de grootste is, en waarschijnlijk ook in het zuiden de volgende verkiezingen zal winnen, gezien als een unieke kans om de missie van een Verenigd Ierland te voltooien. De snelle groei van het katholieke, pro-Ierse deel van de bevolking in het noorden, plus de aantrekkingskracht van de economische voorspoed in het zuiden, maken dat de domino's langzaamaan in de richting van hereniging aan het vallen zijn. Volgens sommigen, zoals Irish Times-columnist Una Mullally, kan het zelfs over tien jaar al zover zijn. Toch zullen de Ieren een enorme kluif hebben aan een eventuele hereniging. De economische kloof tussen het noorden en het zuiden is groot, zo vertelt econoom Barra Roantree van Trinity College. Ook wordt de historische pijn van de troubles nog altijd gevoeld door de diverse gemeenschappen. En dan zijn er nog de vele praktische problemen, zo benadrukt politicoloog Jane Suiter, die maken dat veel Ieren in theorie wel oren hebben naar een hereniging, maar het niet altijd als een prioriteit zien. Toch zal Sinn Féin erop gebrand zijn om de kwestie bovenaan de politieke agenda te krijgen. Zullen de Ieren dit trage en delicate proces in goede banen weten te leiden, of starten ze hiermee hun eigen polariserende traject van brexitachtige proporties op? Over de maker Joost Dobber is correspondent in het Verenigd Koninkrijk voor Het Financieele Dagblad. Ook was hij te horen op BNR Nieuwsradio en te lezen in Trouw en De Tijd. Hij woont sinds 2019 in Londen, van waaruit hij verslag doet van de Brexit en van het komen en gaan van Britse premiers.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Nederland mag zich in het verleden graag als gidsland hebben gezien, maar het Europese land dat die die titel de afgelopen jaren met recht zou kunnen claimen, is Ierland. Het land blinkt uit in zijn tolerante omgang met migranten. Zo kwamen er vorig jaar 100.000 Oekraïners, en is inmiddels 20% van de inwoners afkomstig van buiten Ierland. In de meeste andere landen zou dat resulteren tot grote weerstand bij een deel van het electoraat, maar in Ierland is dat uitgebleven. De golf van politiek populisme heeft Ierland nooit bereikt. Dat komt deels door het vrij unieke politieke landschap in het land, zoals populismekenner Jane Suiter van Dublin City  University uitlegt. In plaats daarvan is Ierland na de klap van de financiële crisis door een diepe periode van introspectie gegaan, die resulteerde in een heuse sociale transformatie, zo vertelt Una Mullally, columnist van de Irish Times en chroniqueur van de Ierse maatschappij. Kroon op dat werk waren de twee referendums waarmee het van oudsher behoudende land het homohuwelijk en abortus legaliseerde. Inderdaad: terwijl de Britten worstelden met hun brexitstemming, wisten de Ieren op ordentelijke wijze via een referendum twee gevoelige maatschappelijke debatten af te sluiten. Des te groter was de schok toen eind november opeens de vlam in de pan sloeg in de Ierse hoofdstad Dublin. Een woedende groep Ieren, opgejut door haat tegen immigranten, sloeg aan het rellen en plunderen, als reactie op een akelige steekpartij bij een school. Veel Ieren doen het af als incident, en de afkeer van immigranten is zeker geen breed gedeeld sentiment onder het volk dat zelf zoveel ervaring met emigratie heeft. Maar het is wel een teken dat zelfs in gidsland Ierland, vooral vanwege de grote huizencrisis, de druk aan het oplopen is. Over de maker Joost Dobber is correspondent in het Verenigd Koninkrijk voor Het Financieele Dagblad. Ook was hij te horen op BNR Nieuwsradio en te lezen in Trouw en De Tijd. Hij woont sinds 2019 in Londen, van waaruit hij verslag doet van de Brexit en van het komen en gaan van Britse premiers.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Nederland mag zich in het verleden graag als gidsland hebben gezien, maar het Europese land dat die die titel de afgelopen jaren met recht zou kunnen claimen, is Ierland. Het land blinkt uit in zijn tolerante omgang met migranten. Zo kwamen er vorig jaar 100.000 Oekraïners, en is inmiddels 20% van de inwoners afkomstig van buiten Ierland. In de meeste andere landen zou dat resulteren tot grote weerstand bij een deel van het electoraat, maar in Ierland is dat uitgebleven. De golf van politiek populisme heeft Ierland nooit bereikt. Dat komt deels door het vrij unieke politieke landschap in het land, zoals populismekenner Jane Suiter van Dublin City  University uitlegt. In plaats daarvan is Ierland na de klap van de financiële crisis door een diepe periode van introspectie gegaan, die resulteerde in een heuse sociale transformatie, zo vertelt Una Mullally, columnist van de Irish Times en chroniqueur van de Ierse maatschappij. Kroon op dat werk waren de twee referendums waarmee het van oudsher behoudende land het homohuwelijk en abortus legaliseerde. Inderdaad: terwijl de Britten worstelden met hun brexitstemming, wisten de Ieren op ordentelijke wijze via een referendum twee gevoelige maatschappelijke debatten af te sluiten. Des te groter was de schok toen eind november opeens de vlam in de pan sloeg in de Ierse hoofdstad Dublin. Een woedende groep Ieren, opgejut door haat tegen immigranten, sloeg aan het rellen en plunderen, als reactie op een akelige steekpartij bij een school. Veel Ieren doen het af als incident, en de afkeer van immigranten is zeker geen breed gedeeld sentiment onder het volk dat zelf zoveel ervaring met emigratie heeft. Maar het is wel een teken dat zelfs in gidsland Ierland, vooral vanwege de grote huizencrisis, de druk aan het oplopen is. Over de maker Joost Dobber is correspondent in het Verenigd Koninkrijk voor Het Financieele Dagblad. Ook was hij te horen op BNR Nieuwsradio en te lezen in Trouw en De Tijd. Hij woont sinds 2019 in Londen, van waaruit hij verslag doet van de Brexit en van het komen en gaan van Britse premiers.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Prof. Jane Suiter is Director of the Institute for Future Media, Democracy and Society at DCU; James Lawless, Fianna Fáil TD for Kildare North and Chair of the Oireachtas Committee on Justice

EPISODE SUMMARY This week we ask: What is going wrong with our democracy, and how we might fix it? EPISODE NOTES In this episode we're discussing elections, referenda, and how to fix our democracy, with none other than our long-time podcast host, Alan Renwick. In his inaugural lecture, Alan described democracy as rule for, and by, all, and suggested that the UK's democratic system is falling short of that ideal. We discuss three suggested "fixes": electoral reform, improving citizen's access to reliable information, and the use of citizen's assemblies. One of the central commitments in Prof Alan Renwick's work is to the importance of the citizen, and our role in the democratic process. He is a leading expert on citizens assemblies, and his fourth book, Deliberative Mini-Publics examines how these can contribute to the policy process and even revitalise democracy. Most recently, Alan's research examines the public's attitudes about democracy, and democratic institutions, post Brexit. Mentioned in this episode: Democracy in the UK after Brexit. The Constitution Unit, UCL Deliberative Mini-Publics: Core Design Features. Alan Renwick, Nicole Curato, David Farrell, Brigitte Geissel, Kimmo Grönlund, Patricia Mockler, Jean-Benoit Pilet, Jonathan Rose, Maija Setälä and Jane Suiter. A Citizen's Guide to Electoral Reform. Date of episode recording: 2023-06-01T00:00:00Z Duration: 39:47 Language of episode: English (UK)

 Presenter:Emily McTernan Guests: Alan Renwick Producer: Eleanor Kingwell-Banham

Day 11 of the RTÉ controversy and more damning details have emerged in the papers today. Joining Gavan to go through the latest updates on the situation is Niamh Smyth, Chair of the Oireachtas Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media and TD for Cavan Monaghan and North Meath, along with Jane Suiter, Professor in the School of Communications DCU.

Jane Suiter, Professor and Director at DCU's Institute for Future Media, reacts to ongoing controversy over undisclosed payments to RTÉ's highest paid presenter.

In this episode we're discussing elections, referenda, and how to fix our democracy, with none other than our long-time podcast host, Alan Renwick. In his inaugural lecture, Alan described democracy as rule for, and by, all, and suggested that the UK's democratic system is falling short of that ideal. We discuss three suggested "fixes": electoral reform, improving citizen's access to reliable information, and the use of citizen's assemblies.One of the central commitments in Prof Alan Renwick's work is to the importance of the citizen, and our role in the democratic process. He is a leading expert on citizens assemblies, and his fourth book, Deliberative Mini-Publics examines how these can contribute to the policy process and even revitalise democracy. Most recently, Alan's research examines the public's attitudes about democracy, and democratic institutions, post Brexit.  Mentioned in this episode:Democracy in the UK after Brexit.  The Constitution Unit, UCLDeliberative Mini-Publics: Core Design Features. Alan Renwick, Nicole Curato, David Farrell, Brigitte Geissel, Kimmo Grönlund, Patricia Mockler, Jean-Benoit Pilet, Jonathan Rose, Maija Setälä and Jane Suiter.A Citizen's Guide to Electoral Reform.

The Conference on the Future of Europe is a joint undertaking by the European Parliament, Commission and Council which aims to open a new space for debate and engagement with citizens from all corners of Europe on the future of the EU and incorporate their views on key economic, environmental and geopolitical issues into EU policymaking and strategy. This webinar explores the role of the European Parliament and of national parliaments like the Oireachtas in shaping Europe's future, and what it may mean for Ireland and the EU. This event is part of a series co-organised with the European Parliament Liaison Office in Dublin ahead of the European Citizens' Panel. About the Speakers: Guy Verhofstadt has served as an MEP since 2009, and is a former Belgian Prime Minister and a former president of the Alliance of Liberal Democrats for Europe group (ALDE) in the European Parliament. He is a member of the Committee on Constitutional Affairs (AFCO) and the Delegation for relations with the United States, and was the chair of the European Parliament's Brexit Steering Group. Deirdre Clune is an MEP representing Ireland South for Fine Gael and currently serves on the Committee on the Internal Market and Consumer Protection (IMCO), as well as the Delegations for relations with the countries of Central America (DCAM) and to the Euro-Latin American Parliamentary Assembly (DLAT). Before joining the European Parliament, she served as Lord Mayor of Cork, T.D. for Cork South-Central and a Senator for the Cultural and Educational Panel. Senator Alice-Mary Higgins was elected as an Independent on the NUI panel in 2016 to Seanad Éireann, and re-elected in 2020, where she leads the Civil Engagement Group, and is a member of the Committees on Environment and Climate Action, Finance and Public Expenditure and Reform, and on Disability Matters. Before her election to the Seanad, she was policy coordinator at the National Women's Council of Ireland, a member of the Executive of the European Women's Lobby in Brussels, and has worked for NGOs including the Older and Bolder alliance, Trócaire and Comhlámh on homecare, climate change, peace-building and anti-racism. Jane Suiter is a Professor in the School of Communications at Dublin City University (DCU), Director fo the DCU Institute for Future Media, Democracy and Society, and is an expert on the information environment in the public sphere, scaling up deliberation and tackling disinformation. She is the senior Research Fellow on the Irish Citizens' Assembly on gender equality, a founding member of We the Citizens, Ireland's first deliberative experiment and a member of the Stewarding Group on the Scottish Citizens' Assembly and of the OECD's FutureDemocracy network. Professor Suiter was named the Irish Research Council's Researcher of the Year in 2020.

Dr Jane Suiter, Director of DCU's Institute for Future Media, Democracy and Society, on a whistle blower's allegations that Facebook prioritises profit over safety.

In all the dozens of podcast interviews broadcast by the Holywell Trust, one idea to strengthen our society has been put forward repeatedly – citizens’ assemblies. They are not universally popular – both DUP and Conservative Party politicians have expressed concerns they would undermine the link between elected representatives and their constituents, threatening politicians’ legitimacy. But the experience of Ireland’s citizens’ assemblies has inspired many. Assemblies provided routes to resolving politically challenging issues: same sex marriage, abortion, climate change and, now, gender inequality. And in Northern Ireland we seem bound into a future programme of the assemblies given that New Decade New Approach commits to at least one per year, possibly more, and incoming DUP leader Edwin Poots has promised that all of the NDNA will be implemented. The principle behind citizens’ assemblies is that a randomised selection of the population, representative of the population, comes together to consider in detail a policy challenge. Members will be informed by experts and then deliberate carefully, before reaching their conclusions. The format has not only produced intelligent and careful proposals, but has been trusted by the wider population to be fair and balanced. In the latest Holywell Trust Forward Together podcast, Jane Suiter of Dublin City University provides her expert view of how citizens’ assemblies work and their strengths and weaknesses. She is one of the people most closely involved in Ireland’s citizens’ assemblies. Jane is not only professor of communications at DCU and director of its Institute for Future Media, Democracy and Society, but she is also senior research fellow with Ireland’s citizens’ assembly on gender equality, having been intimately involved with citizens’ assemblies and other forms of deliberative democracy for more than a decade. The Holywell Trust Forward Together podcasts are funded by the Community Relations Council’s Media Grant Scheme.   Disclaimer: This project has received support from the Northern Ireland Community Relations Council which aims to promote a pluralist society characterised by equity, respect for diversity, and recognition of interdependence. The views expressed do not necessarily reflect those of the Community Relations Council. 

In episode five Dick chats to Professor Jane Suiter, Director of the Institute for Future Media, Democracy and Society at DCU about what drives the spread of disinformation and how it can undermine vaccination programmes. What is the difference between misinformation and disinformation and are they the same thing as fake news? Dick asks Jane to explain what these terms mean and they discuss the evolution of disinformation, what drives it, and what makes people susceptible to it. Jane also outlines some ways it can be tackled, by those who own or regulate social media and by us as everyday users of digital media.

Director of the School of Future Media and Journalism in DCU Dr Jane Suiter spoke about government messaging during the past year and what will be needed in 2021.

Pat is joined by Dr Jane Suiter, associate professor at the School of Communications  and Pearse Doherty, Sinn Fein TD and Party Director of Elections. Listen and subscribe to The Pat Kenny Show on Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts and Spotify.    Download, listen and subscribe on the Newstalk App.   You can also listen to Newstalk live on newstalk.com or on Alexa, by adding the Newstalk skill and asking: 'Alexa, play Newstalk'.

Sinn Féin has carved out a space for itself as the main party of left-wing opposition, and its manifesto proposes radical change. Polls show it has gained support in recent months, and it is the most popular party among those under 35. It has made the housing issue its own. Will its strategy work on February 8th? To understand the party's appeal, with its unique characteristics in Irish and even European politics, and to examine some parts of its generous manifesto, Hugh and Pat are joined by Jane Suiter, Associate Professor at DCU's School of Communications, and Aidan Regan, Associate Professor of Political Economy at UCD.

Citizens’ forum The Irish Citizens’ Assembly was formed in response to the severe social and economic crisis caused by the global financial meltdown of 2008. A group of political scientists, led by Jane Suiter and David Farrell, advocated for citizens to be included in debates about the necessary political reforms to address the failures of the executive. Deliberative mini publics innovate democracy by engaging citizens in constructive dialogue about the issues facing society. While many in parliament assumed citizens would always favor more spending and lower taxes, it turned out that voters who were presented with detailed information came to develop nuanced policy positions. After listening to presentations by experts, they actually favored higher taxes in certain areas and reached complex compromises about government spending. By doing so, they proved to lawmakers and skeptics that ordinary Irish citizens could be trusted with vital policy work. The case of abortion rights The first Citizens’ Assembly considered the issue of overturning the ban on abortion in the Irish constitution. Over the course of five weekend-long sessions, everyday citizens heard arguments from impartial experts, medical professionals, as well as activists on both sides. At the end of their deliberations, they produced a series of recommendations, which were sent to the Irish Parliament in June 2017. 64% of the Citizens’ Assembly participants recommended that abortion be legalized. In turn, Parliament put the question of legalizing abortion to the Irish public in a nationwide referendum in May 2018. It passed with 66% of the vote. The result indicates that the counsel of the Citizens’ Assembly was an accurate and meaningful representation of the Irish electorate. Since then the Assembly has given policy recommendations on issues such as how the state can make Ireland a leader in tackling climate change and how to respond to the challenges and opportunities of an aging population. Ireland is a Beacon for Democracy The Assembly has strengthened trust and communication on both sides of the democratic equation – citizens and politicians – and has bolstered the legitimacy of democracy at a time when democracies around the world are under attack. Through the innovation of using citizens’ assemblies, the Irish experience is showing a path to overcome the problems of democracy in decline. Politicians learned about the willingness and capacity of everyday people to make serious, nuanced policy choices for the good of the country. The Assembly has led many in Parliament to consider the advice of constituents in a new way, and to seek advice from their voters. Conversely, Irish citizens see the Assembly as a way to augment their democracy beyond voting. Other countries have noticed this. At the launch of Scotland’s Citizens’ Assembly earlier this year, the constitutional minister for the Scottish government praised Ireland’s success as an example to follow. Find out more: David Farrell and Jane Suiter have been collaborating in research focused on Irish citizens’ assemblies for over 10 years. During the economic crisis of 2008-2009, they led a group of political scientists who proposed that citizens should be brought into the heart of debates over constitutional and political reform. This culminated in the establishment of We the Citizens – Ireland’s first national citizens’ assembly. In 2012 the Irish government established the Convention on the Constitution: David and Jane led the academic advisory group. This was followed, in 2016, by the Irish Citizens’ Assembly: David and Jane secured Irish Research Council funding to provide research leadership. David Farrell is Head of the School of Politics and International Relations at University College Dublin. He is also a member of the Royal Irish Academy. He is formerly the research leader of the Irish Citizens' Assembly and currently a member of the Stewarding Group of the Scottish Citizens’ Assembly. Jane Suiter is Director of the Institute for Future Media and Journalism at Dublin City University as well as an Associate Professor in the School of Communications. She helped found the Irish Citizens’ Assembly (2016-2018) and the Irish Constitutional Convention (2012-2014). She is also a founding member of We the Citizens (2011), Ireland’s first deliberative experiment. The Irish Citizens’ Assembly is an exercise in deliberative democracy, placing the citizen at the heart of important legal and policy issues facing Irish society. With the benefit of expert, impartial, and factual advice, 100 citizen members have considered the Eighth Amendment of the Constitution (on abortion); making Ireland a leader in tackling climate change; challenges and opportunities of an aging population; manner in which referenda are held; and fixed term parliaments. US-based deliberative democracy projects mentioned in the episode are: James Fishkin, Center for Deliberative Democracy at Stanford University Kevin Esterling and his work with online town halls. He wrote Politics with the People, Building a Directly Representative Democracy. Citizens’ Initiative Review in Oregon You can follow David on Twitter @dfarrell_ucd, Jane @JaneSuit, and The Citizens’ Assembly @CitizAssembly.

Has the media lost our trust? If so, what can it do to regain it? More importantly, should we ever actually fully trust our media? On the night of the pivotal Ireland-Denmark Euro 2020 qualifier down the road in the Aviva Stadium, a quartet of the good and the great of Irish media gathered in Whelan's on Dublin's Wexford St as part of the Dublin Podcast Festival to discuss and debate with Off Message's Pat O'Mahony perhaps the most important issue of a business they would all see as vital to the well-being of society yet one which has long been in a state of turmoil, explaining why trust in the Fourth Estate is currently at an all time low, exploring the very real impacts this lack of trust in our media is having on everything from politics to climate change to vaccinations uptake, suggesting ways in which that trust might be restored, and arguing the toss about whether we should even trust the mainstream media in the first place. The panel: - Mark Little, CEO and co-founder of Kinzen, formerly managing director of Twitter in Ireland, CEO and founder of Storyful and RTÉ Prime Time co-presenter - Jane Suiter, Director of the Institute for Future Media and Journalism (FuJo) and Associate Professor at the School of Communications, DCU, formerly Economics Editor at the Irish Times - Gillian Fitzpatrick, Chief Commercial Officer at Maximum Media (home of JOE, her, Sports JOE and Her Family), formerly Features Editor at the Irish Daily Mail - Gavan Reilly, Political correspondent with Virgin Media News, host of On The Record on Newstalk FM and columnist with the Meath Chronicle, formerly political correspondent at Newstalk and Today FM and journalist at TheJournal.ie

How do citizens' assemblies work, and why are they suddenly so popular? Following the success of the citizens' assembly in Ireland amd around the world, Scotland plans to follow suit with a citizens' assembly in 2020. Join chair Shelagh Wright, and panellists Dr. Oliver Escobar, Jamie Kelsey-Fry and Dr. Jane Suiter at this session recorded as part of the 2019 Festival of Politics.

In today's podcast we look at issues around radicalisation, disinformation and the amplification, sometimes unwittingly, of extremism online. What role do the big tech companies play and what, if anything, can be done about it all? Guests: Director of FuJo and the PROVENANCE project at DCU, Jane Suiter, and Liz Carolan of Transparent Referendum and Digital Action.

Hosted by Colette Sexton, Media Matters talks to industry experts on the issues that really matter on the first Wednesday of every month. This month's podcast features former Irish Times economic editor Jane Suiter, who is now director of the Institute for Future Media and Journalism at Dublin City University. Despite the struggles facing traditional media outlets, she believes there are still careers for journalism students, but in a wider range of organisations, including technology companies. Suiter also discusses the work being done to combat fake news, and what can be done to increase the number of women in senior positions in the media and the number of female voices on air.

There’s still one more live debate left to endure in this presidential campaign, but last night’s on RTÉ’s Prime Time was the final one to feature all six would-be presidents. Did we learn anything new about the candidates? Director of the Institute for Future Media and Journalism at DCU, Jane Suiter, joins Hugh and Pat to discuss their performances, whether there were too many contestants in the race and how the blasphemy referendum might play out.

One final Friday referendum podcast. Columnist Una Mullally and DCU political scientist Jane Suiter join Hugh, Pat and Sarah to debate what really happened. How did the media fulfil its role? What were the decisive factors in voters' minds, and can the success of the grassroots campaign for liberalisation be parlayed into electoral success for the politicians who supported the people?

It will take a few podcasts to digest the historic referendum results of last weekend. Today we begin by looking at what lies behind the divergence between opinion polls and the final result. Then Michael O'Regan has the view from rural constituencies like Kerry where many TDs were left at odds with the majority. And we turn to Fianna Fail and reports of an unhappy meeting last night as the party struggles to figure out what its position on abortion should be. Is the party at risk of a major rupture? We talk to Niall Collins, the Limerick TD, FF spokesperson on Foreign Affairs and Yes campaigner, who is blunt in his assessment of the motives and leadership of some of his colleagues. He demands the party now row in behind leader Micheal Martin on the issue as legislation works its way through the Oireachtas. We'll be back with another podcast on Friday, with columnist and campaigner Una Mullally and political scientist Jane Suiter of DCU.

Today we broaden our podcast's horizons with a discussion of the challenges facing traditional 'conservative' politics around the world. Jay Cost, a Washington-based pundit with Republican-leaning (but Trump-fearing)magazine The Weekly Standard, explains the fissures within the party that have allowed Trump's rise. We also have Dr Jane Suiter of DCU's school of politics and Eamon Delaney of The Hibernia Forum in studio to talk about the ebbs and flows of conservative thought and practice in Ireland and Europe and whether the centre can hold for the right as high levels of immigration and widespread economic stagnation persist.

Surpluses, quotas and transfers, voter calculus - for true politics nerds, count weekend provides a rich bounty. Three such nerds - Irish Times Social Media Editor David Cochrane, Jane Suiter of DCU and Adrian Kavanagh of NUI Maynooth - are in studio to pore over the permutations and indulge in a little speculation for good measure. In part two Hugh chats with two first-time Independent candidates with some unusual policy ideas, Kerry Guinan and Dr Marcus De Brun. They explain why they are running despite the odds being against them of taking seats.

As the country prepares to go to the polls to vote in the 2016 general election – the first 2016 general election anyway – The Journal’s Sinead O’Carroll, The Irish Times’ Hugh Linehan and DCU’s Jane Suiter joined us at Banter for a review of the campaign so far. In front of a lively and engaged audience in Dublin’s MVP, we look at the coverage of the campaign, the state of the parties and likely outcomes after Ireland votes for a new Dail.

In this edition of Inside Politics Hugh Linehan discusses the issue of political reform with Harry McGee, political scientist Jane Suiter and Donal O'Brolchain from Second Republic, a grassroots movement which has been advocating for political reform. They analyse how reform has failed to launch in most aspects of Irish polical life, and how this might be best addressed as the life of the current Dail comes to an end. The show begins with a discussion on when this election is likely to be called... Inside Politics is a weekly politics podcast. It is produced by Sinead O'Shea and presented by Hugh Linehan.

Opinion. Joining us to discuss this is Dr Jane Suiter a political scientist at DCU and Pat Leahy, political editor with the Sunday Business Post. n polls: do they get the right result?