185 episodes
Red Lines BBC Radio Ulster
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4.5 • 67 Ratings
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The back-stop’s here? Bad puns with top political coverage from Northern Ireland. Red Lines brings you essential analysis and commentary by BBC NI’s politics team.
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The Stormont Insider - Money for nothing
Mark Carruthers is joined by Deirdre Hargey, Jonathan Buckley, Eóin Tennyson, John Stewart, Matthew O'Toole and Gerry Carroll to discuss the perilous state of Stormont finances.
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Pact to the future
Mark Carruthers asks Gareth Gordon, Suzanne Breen and David McCann for their General Election predictions.
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Casement snark
Mark Carruthers is joined by Jayne McCormack, David McCann and MLAs Sorcha Eastwood, Mike Nesbitt and Colin McGrath to discuss Casement Park, Assembly tensions and Dublin money.
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Back to School
Mark is joined by Gareth Gordon & a few MLAs as Stormont gets back up and running.
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Red Lines: The Michelle O'Neill interview
First broadcast in August 2022: Mark Carruthers talks to Sinn Féin's Michelle O'Neill about her life in politics.
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Customer Reviews
Perfect
Mark is exactly what NI needs. A non-biased, forensic, intelligent and respected journalist. Not interested in likes or views, purely the facts. Everything that Nolan isn’t.
A “progressive” unionist party?
At times this podcast could be accused of naval gazing, especially regarding seemingly endless discussions about unionist identity and strategy. That hit new highs this week with an attempt to sort current unionist politicians into two hypothetical, realigned new “progressive” and “traditional” unionist parties. To my mind, this completely missed the rationale behind the idea, which would be to make way for new genuinely progressive unionist politicians by sweeping aside many of the overwhelmingly conservative crop of DUP and UUP representatives. But even so, the idea of Jeffrey Donaldson, Carla Lockhart, Paul Givan and Robin Swann being considered progressive? God help us all!
Eamon McCann interview
A real trick missed here, half the I/v devoted to Bloody Sunday…there’s far more to the man and his life than that disaster…which has been comprehensively covered elsewhere…poor..