As Ireland goes to the polls, who will be the biggest winners and losers in Election 2024? Could this be the election that sees the Social Democrats become a coalition partner? Where did it go wrong for Fine Gael? And former minister Finian McGrath sings! 
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Election Extra: Winner and loser predictions, the naughty list and Finian McGrath sings!

All 174 Dail seats have been filled, and the new TDs are wandering around Leinster House looking for their new digs and the subsidized soup. What's next? Just the small order of forming a government until 2029.  Thankfully our man on the ground Finian McGrath, has the inside scoop on what conversations have already taken place on Kildare St. And what about Mary Lou for President? Well Kevin Doyle makes a left of field prediction that’s so crazy... it just might work. 

Presenter: Kevin Doyle with guests Gabija Gataveckaite and Finian McGrath 

Election Extra finale: Inside scoop on Independent coalition talks and Mary Lou for President? 

As a journalist and mum of three, Melanie Finn was too busy to take much notice of the headaches and falls she’d been having. Then, in the summer of 2023, her condition deteriorated rapidly, and doctors discovered a cyst on her brain. She speaks with Ellen Coyne on emergency surgery, the long road to recovery and how, ultimately, she feels changed for the better.  

‘I kept passing out on the school-run, but I was too busy to be sick' Melanie Finn on the rare colloid cyst that threatened her life 

Remains exhumed from a grave in County Monaghan are being DNA tested to determine whether they include those of Joe Lynskey. One of the ‘disappeared’, the former monk turned IRA man was abducted, murdered and secretly buried in 1972. Lynskey is understood to have tricked a fellow IRA man into shooting a love rival – also a member of the IRA. The IRA ‘court martial’ sentenced him to death. Today on The Indo Daily Allison Morris, Security Correspondent with The BelTel joins Ciarán Dunbar to tell Joe Lynskey’s story.  
This podcast was produced by our sister podcast The BelTel.  

Election Extra: Winner and loser predictions, the naughty list and Finian McGrath sings!

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