TV Review: Politics in camera proves hard to pin down

Too often, Polaitíocht: Power On The Box felt like two separate programmes fused by genetic experiment

Harry McGee in Polaitíocht: Power On The Box on RTÉ One

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Discounting ad breaks, the first episode of Polaitíocht: Power On The Box (RTÉ One) lasted for perhaps 26 minutes. Not a huge amount of time to analyse something properly, let alone a soberly weighty subject like the impact of television on Irish political history. Throw US politics into the mix too, ...