On this week's Inside Politics podcast, Hugh Linehan, Pat Leahy and Harry McGee discuss Tánaiste Simon Coveney's difficult few days, and the disbandment of the ill-fated Strategic Communications Unit.

With help from UCC economist (and former All-Ireland-winning Cork hurler) John Considine, they also take a close look at a recent story that revealed a lot about how Irish politics really works – the controversy over the allocation of a sports grant to Wesley, a private school in south Dublin.

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