Fianna Fáil: In Our Own Words — Fragmentation, Television and the Changing Face of the Campaign

As part of our 100 Bliain centenary series, host Shane Moynihan TD sits down with Professor Michael Gallagher, one of Ireland's leading experts on electoral politics, to trace how Irish campaigning has transformed across a century. From Jack Lynch's helicopter tours of marginal constituencies to the arrival of television in the 1960s, and on to today's fractured party landscape where three main parties hover around 20% support, this conversation charts the forces (media, mobility, and the weakening of old party loyalties) that have reshaped how elections are fought and won in Ireland.