After the umpteenth ECB rates rise, we could potentially see the reintroduction of mortgage interest relief to take some of the pressure off homeowners - that was the first point of discussion on the Inside Politics podcast round-up this week.
The panel also gave their two cents on President Higgins’ recent speech at a reception for think tank Tasc, in which he condemned the “obsession” with achieving economic growth at the expense of “ecology and ethics”.
There was also a noted lack of enthusiasm at the prospect of sitting through live coverage of King Charles the III’s coronation.
And the team talk about some of the best Irish Times content of the week, including:
A victim of its own popularity – Dalkey’s second World War Eire sign gets a facelift
Moving to Canada from Ireland: ‘Nobody prepared me for bears; they just walk about’
‘Free births’ in Ireland: Within three hours Naomi (38) died, leaving behind four kids
U2’s Adam Clayton and others on their boarding school days: ‘Being separated from the age of 8 was a trauma’
· Fintan O’Toole’s brilliant piece on the fanatical racism of John Mitchell
· Jack Horgan-Jones’s account of Donald Trump’s Doonbeg visit
· Pat Leahy writing about Ireland’s approach to relations with China
