With General Election 2024 now officially underway, throughout the campaign, we will be bringing you interviews, podcasts and reports with party leaders, ministers and those who want to replace them. In this episode, our political correspondent Conal Thomas sits down with one of the two men seeking to become Taoiseach once again – Fianna Fáil leader Micheál Martin.

As a general election closes in, this week's Red C poll shows Fine Gael and Fianna Fáil almost neck and neck, while Sinn Féin continues to see its support fall. Join editor Daniel McConnell, political correspondent Cónal Thomas, and policy editor Daniel Murray for analysis on what this poll means and how the general election race is shaping up.

This week's episode of Five Degrees of Change is with Paul Murphy, a People Before Profit TD. Murphy identifies as an ecosocialist, a political philosophy adopted in more recent years by his party. He has become a leading advocate for environmental change in the Dáil, and lays most of the blame for our environmental degradation on the capitalist system, which he says promotes consumption of our natural environment without any regard for our planetary boundaries.

For his policy changes, Murphy chose to ban fossil fuel advertising, to renationalise our energy system, and to invest in low-carbon care jobs.

For his personal changes, Murphy spoke about rewilding his garden and cycling more.

Leo Varadkar is the former Taoiseach and former leader of Fine Gael. Under his tenure at the top of government, the most substantial climate policies in the history of the state were implemented, but will they enough to bring Ireland from being a "climate laggard" to a climate leader?

For his policy changes, Varadkar chose to reform the Common Agricultural Policy to incentivise more sustainable farming, to make Ireland a leader in Sustainable Aviation Fuel, and to build more electricity interconnection.

For his personal changes, he spoke about repairing his clothes to get a longer life out of them, and reducing food waste at home.

At the inaugural Global Economic Summit in Killarney, Business Post technology editor Charlie Taylor moderated a fire-side discussion with three leading female business leaders – Anne O'Leary, VP global business EMEA, Meta; Samantha Barry editor-in-chief, Glamour, Conde Nast; and Sarah Murphy, chief executive of the Business Post.

At the inaugural Global Economic Summit in Killarney, Business Post Brussels Correspondent Sarah Collins had a fascinating quick-fire discussion with Jens Magnusson, Chief Economist, SEB, about the global economy and the primary challenges being faced today.