World of Politics with Harry McGee

The Presidential election has been compared to 1990 – primarily because only three candidates are contesting for the first time in 35 years. But there might be more similarities between these two elections, a generation apart.

Then, an unexpected winner, Mary Robinson, snuck between the two big parties to claim the election.

And yes, it took a massive controversy involving Fianna Fáil’s Brian Lenihan to disrupt the status quo. Lenihan denied that in the early 1980s he contacted........

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