Owing to other commitments Ken & Dave are taking a break from the podcast for a couple of weeks. 
This Week In Ireland will be back in July.

• UK Election
  • Main Outcomes – Tory win, Just
  • Nick Clegg holds the cards.
  • Is PR doable?
  • Can Labour make a deal?
  • Cameron offers no guarantees on PR?
  • Can Cameron deliver – Backwoodsmen like Bill Cash return
  • Policy differences on
    • Europe & Euro
    • Defence & Trident
    • Foreign Affairs
  • New direction for UK Politics?
    • David Cameron Profile
    • Tory cabinet stars?
• Northern Ireland
  • Peter Robinson & Reg Empey gone
  • Time for Unionism to unite?
  • SDLP hold 3 seats – relative success
  • Sinn Fein – 5 seats
  • A good day for the Alliance party.
• Systemic failures on voting day?
• Dow drops on dodgy trades? 1000 points in 2 minutes.
  • “Fat Fingered Trades”
  • Greek contagion – Ireland escapes?
    
• Impact comes out for the Croke Park Deal
• Labour’s strategy unfolds.

We always welcome your feedback,good or bad, via twitter @twiire, facebook via email info@thisweekinireland.com or by phone (353) 01 442 9060.

This Week In Ireland is running a little competition for the political junkies. Less than 30 seconds.
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1. Government Pensions.
   • Should retirement be at 65
   • Double pensions – ok or not?
   • Cowen fron the bunker – dead man walking.
   • Is it fair to change terms & conditions 20 years after a job commences?
2. Big banks winners and loser
   • Bank of Ireland raising capital whilst Allied Irish Banks head towards more state ownership.
3. Garda Rebellion
   • The GRA attack Fianna Fail, The Greens bite back.
   • Should the Gardai be allowed Double job?
   • As gangland murders continue should the Gardai just get on with their job?
4. 3rd and final leaders debate
   • Brown’s bigot bombshell and a look at his career.
   • Clegg is open for business.

World Cup Preview with Eric

• Japan
• Cameroon

Political Prediction
It WILL be a hung parliament.

We always welcome your feedback,good or bad, via twitter @twiire, facebook via email info@thisweekinireland.com or by phone (353) 01 442 9060.

This Weeks Topics for Ken and Dave

• The Greek Bailout
  • Why is it needed?
  • Are the other PIIGS next?
  • The cost of restructuring banks.
• Bank of Ireland’s pensions
  • Richie Boucher shamed
  • Brian Lenihan drops the balls
  • Legal advice is sweet protection
• The Labour Party Conference
  • Can Labour play with the big boys?
  • Rot versus renewal
  • Is there a strategic plan?
• UK Election debates
  • Clegg keeps momentum
  • Tories, slash and burn after election day?
• Early runners and riders for the Presidential Election
  • Norris, Finlay or maybe John O’Shea?

World Cup Preview with Eric Mc Grath

• The Netherlands
• Denmark

Political Prediction

We always welcome your feedback,good or bad, via twitter @twiire, facebook via email info@thisweekinireland.com or by phone (353) 01 442 9060.

A recent piece in Business & Finance Magazine showed a great insight to the thinking of some PUBLIC REPRESENTATIVES. Ned O'Keefe, Fianna Fail TD for Cork East is reported to have said to constituents looking for funds to replace the portakabins used by national school children in Rathcormac to get stuffed.  Ned's son, Kevin, hadn’t received many votes in the Rathcormac area in the last local election.  “I was contacted by a representative for the parents’ council and told her straight out my position... All things being equal, I asked her why I should look after the people of Rathcormac if they didn’t look after me? I told her there was no funding available.”

More at Business and Finance and here at Public Inquiry

This will be a great show. Back to basics. Ken & Dave going head to head looking at the UK Leaders Debates, The Labour Party Conference and some legal matters of note. We will also look ahead with interest to the coming Presidential vacancy in Ireland.

We are currently working on two features for the near future, the Moriarty Tribunal and the Obama Presidency.

Lastly we hope to have some VERY exciting news in the next 2 weeks about the future of the show.

As ever we love the feedback from listeners and ideas on what you want to hear.
Please give us a tweet or mention on facebook to help get the name out there.

This week we do have an excellent interview with Mark Fielding, our World Cup series & the Political Prediction.

Mark fielding, Chief Executive of ISME, Irish Small and Medium Enterprises Association.

• Credit issues for Small Business
• The long tail of the recession
• Small business driven job growth
• Creating an environment for Entrepreneurship
• Public Sector, people versus system.
• The Leadership Vacuum

World Cup Preview with Eric

• Australia
• Serbia

Political Prediction

We always welcome your feedback,good or bad, via twitter @twiire, facebook via email info@thisweekinireland.com or by phone (353) 01 442 9060.

This Week we will be talking to Mark Fielding of ISME on the challenges facing small businesses in Ireland, hopes of a recovery, and what Government can do to help.

Mark Fielding is the Chief Executive of ISME, the Independent Business Organisation. He has been involved in the SME sector throughout his working life as well as being a senior partner in an accountancy and management consultancy firm specialising in SME's. He has worked in the UK, France and Ireland and has assisted in the start up of more than 300 companies.