On today’s podcast:

• The crisis in Emergency Departments this winter reveals a lack of accountability in the upper echelons of the system, among other issues.
• Was an attack on TDs with bags of excrement at a public meeting indicative of “a creeping sinister aggression” against politicians, as Ciaran Cannon claimed?
• Pat Leahy explains what is going on behind the scenes in the negotiations over the Northern Ireland Protocol. How would the DUP react to a deal that left even a much-changed Protocol in place?

Inside Politics is a weekly podcast hosted by Hugh Linehan.