The Indo Daily

Westlife are back in Dublin for a record-breaking 13-night residency at the 3Arena, 25 years after they first became Ireland's biggest musical export.
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From Sligo schoolboys to global chart stars, the band's story is one of extraordinary success, personal setbacks and remarkable longevity.
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Today on The Indo Daily, Fionnán Sheehan speaks to Aoife Rooney, features writer with the Irish Independent, and Eddie Rowley, showbiz editor with the Sunday World, to look at how Westlife survived boyband burnout, Brian McFadden's departure, bankruptcy, changing musical tastes and the collapse of the boyband era itself.
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Why are they still filling arenas in 2026 when so many of their rivals have faded away?
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Once Ireland's richest man, Seán Quinn has returned to tell his story once again, this time through his new podcast, The Quinn Files.
On today's Indo Daily, Fionnán Sheahan is joined by Sunday Independent’s Liam Collins and the Irish Independent’s Sean Pollock to examine Quinn's latest account of the events that transformed him from billionaire businessman to one of the most controversial figures of post-crash Ireland.
From the extraordinary success of the Quinn Group to the collapse of Anglo Irish Bank, prison and life after bankruptcy, they ask whether Quinn's latest intervention brings fresh insight or simply revisits a story the public already knows.
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Donald Trump has come and gone from Áras an Uachtaráin, but not without causing considerable consternation. The US president said he would “love” to see a united Ireland and suggested it “may as well happen now” because it is “going to happen eventually”. So what prompted his unexpected intervention, and could it have any impact on the debate over Ireland’s future?
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For almost 50 years, successive British governments have condemned Israel's illegal settlements in the occupied territories.
But condemnation never translated into action, and the settlements continued to expand.
So, why has Andy Burnham’s government finally chosen to flip the script and impose trade sanctions with the settlements?
Meanwhile, in Israel, political pressure is mounting on prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
A newspaper report claims Netanyahu received intelligence warnings ahead of Hamas's October 7 attacks in 2023, but failed to pass that information on to Israel's security chiefs.
With Israel edging closer to another election, fresh questions are being asked about his political future, and whether his grip on power can survive the growing scrutiny.
On today’s Indo Daily, Tessa Fleming is joined by Sam Kiley, world affairs editor at the UK Independent and host of the World of Trouble podcast, and by Middle Eastern correspondent with The Economist, Gregg Carlstrom, to discuss the UK government’s seismic policy shift and to ask what the political future holds for Netanyahu.


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Catherine Connolly has called Donald Trump volatile, a bully and a misogynist. Now, she must welcome him to Áras an Uachtaráin. So, what could possibly go wrong?
­Host: Kevin Doyle, Guests: Mary Regan and John Downing
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