This week Chris Dooley is joined by Clinton confidant and IrishCentral founder Niall O'Dowd and The Irish Times' foreign policy editor Patrick Smyth to discuss Hillary Clinton's campaign for president, the growing field of Republican candidates that may challenge her should she win the nomination, and the high financial cost of running.
Plus Derek Scally is on the line from Helsinki, where upcoming elections are likely to return a conservative coalition and with it austerity measures aimed at correcting a €6 billion budget deficit. They discuss Finland's economic troubles, its political landscape and its changing relationships with Europe and Russia.
Denis Staunton is on leave.
