Episode one of the Irish Mirror's new politics showis finally here as Political Editor Ferghal Blaney and Political Correspondent Louise dive in the biggest stories around Leinster House this week.
Tanaiste Micheal Martin found himself locking horns with anti-Nato protesters who interrupted his opening address at a neutrality conference in UCC with their “disruptive efforts."
President Michael D Higgins also weighed in on the issue and landed himself in hot water after he expressed reservations about the Government’s Consultative Forum on International Security Policy, which will start in Cork later this week.
Louise and Ferghal also discuss the shocking rise in female killings in the last year and what the Justice Minister is doing to tackle the problem and ask the question can politics only do so much to tackle the problem?
And in an unexpected turn of events Minister Paschal Donohue revealed that he was a big fan of Taylor Swift in anticipation of her announcing two stadium shows in Ireland next year.
Watch the full episode here:
