Newspaper panel: Des Peelo, chartered accountant and advisor to Charlie Haughey&Bertie Ahern. Vincent Sheridan, company director. Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport Leo Varadkar. Kathy Sheridan, journalist, the Irish Times. Nicola Byrne, founder and CEO of 11890.

Brian Lucey, Professor of Finance at Trinity College, came on the line to attempt to explain all about our economic situation to Marian and the panel!

Quentin Peel, editor of the Financial Times, told us about the upcoming European summit in Brussels and the Fiscal Compact Treaty.

R.T.E.'s Damien O'Meara updated us on postponements in the world of sport (due to weather), along with the gold Abu Dhabi championship, the final of the men's Australian Open, rugby and horse-racing.

Shane Harrison, B.B.C. news correspondent, came into studio to go through foreign news stories, including the ongoing violence in Syria, which Hazir Tamourian joined us on the line to discuss.

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