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That Was The Week with Gavan Reilly

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Join Gavan Reilly for a weekly look back at the stories that dominated the previous seven days - and catch up on what you might have missed.
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Leo Varadkar has been elected Fine Gael leader. In two weeks, he becomes Ireland's youngest ever Taoiseach. This is his first press conference after election.
As Leo Varadkar and Simon Coveney take to the country to spread their visions for Fine Gael - and Ireland - Gavan Reilly goes deep into their first head-to-head debate.
Enda Kenny's announced he's away... so in this special edition, we play you Simon Coveney and Leo Varadkar's FULL press conferences as they unveiled their candidacies.
Another scandal threatens to engulf a Garda Commissioner. Has the government tied itself too much to her hip?
A busy week this week - with concerns about Saudi Arabia, abortion, Brexit and the National Maternity Hospital - and yet, it's all about the Dáil prayer...
Most of Ireland's hospitals and schools are owned by Church groups - but when rosaries and ovaries collide, a scandal isn't far away. Gavan Reilly dives in.
The Citizens' Assembly is proposing a regime on abortion far more liberal than the politicians who set it up in the first place. Gavan Reilly asks: what happens now?
How much longer can Enda Kenny hang on by kicking for touch - and will it do us any good? Plus. Gavan Reilly grapples with the legacy of Martin McGuinness.
A few days later than usual, Gavan Reilly digests the Taoiseach's six-day, 7,500-mile trip to the US to meet Donald Trump.
Or, 'This bloody country'. Old horrors cast long shadows, as Gavan Reilly reports this week.
Mothers, babies, Grace, Travellers, Gardai, whistleblowers and water charges... it truly was a week of Ireland being haunted by ghosts of its past. With Gavan Reilly.
The era of Enda is coming to a quiet end. But can the government keep functioning while so many of its ministers are looking over their shoulders? With Gavan Reilly.
The extraordinary tale of how a false allegation of sex abuse against a Garda, may bring about the resignation of a Taoiseach. From start to finish, with Gavan Reilly.
It's polling day - so Gavan Reilly reviews yesterday's final pitches, the campaign so far, and wonders where we all go from here.
Everyone escaped mostly unhurt from the final TV debate... but a verbal slip-up causes a skeleton to briefly re-emerge from Enda Kenny's closet. Plus: Has Joan saved it?
The final poll of the campaign shows some serious momentum for Fianna Fáil - as its TDs present Michael Martin as a credible Taoiseach. It could never happen... could it?
Just when opinion polls were showing Fine Gael support stabilising again, Enda Kenny visits his home town - and calls the locals 'whingers'. And apologises... eventually.
With a week to go to polling it's all back to square one. When in doubt: attack. Gavan Reilly brings you up to speed...
With just over a week until polling, the three largest parties come out fighting... over the same stuff they were fighting about last week. Plus, which one is Zayn again?
The campaign is shaken by a poll suggesting FG's lead over its rivals has halved in under a fortnight. Coalitions are thrown back onto the agenda...
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