Saturday 18th May 2013
Alan Shatter and Mick Wallace; Croke Park 2 and can lessons be learned from Iceland?
Saturday 1-2pm
Alan Shatter and Mick Wallace; Croke Park 2 and can lessons be learned from Iceland?
Croke Park Two and Child Benefit Reform
Legislating for the X Case, Unemployment Figures and Sean Dunne's Bankruptcy.
Live from the Fianna Fáil Ard Fheis at the RDS in Dublin.
Topics for discussion this week include: the Savita Halappanavar inquest verdict; the collapse of Croke Park 2; will the personal insolvency service really help those in trouble and Claire takes a call from Boston with an update on the marathon bombings.
Live from the Sinn Féin Ard Fheis in Castlebar
This week the panel discuss the Labour Party, Troika and mortgage debt.
Mortgage Debt Guidlines, Meath East By Election, Gardaí/Teachers and RTÉ Top Earners
Topics this week: Cyprus and the Euro; Mortgage Debt Guidelines, and the Taoiseach takes responsibility for Health and Social Protection.
Mortgage Debt; Luke ‘Ming’ Flanagan; McGeever and Cyprus Debt deal.
Topics up for discussion include; IFA Protest in Cork, Property Tax/Mortgage Arrears and the visit of the IMF's Christine Lagarde to Dublin.
Divide and conquer? Deals for prison officers and fire fighters but other frontline staff are left facing cuts and the INTO leave voting on pay deal up to its members.
Topics up for discussion today include: the UK credit downgrade, the Croke Park Agreement, Eamon Gilmores Magdalene speech and NAMA.
Topics up for discussion this week are: changes to child benefit; food safety; Enda Kenny's meeting with the Magdalene survivors and current health of the retail sector.
The Debt Deal and austerity protests. Claire is joined by Conor Brophy, Leo Varadkar, Tom Healy, Marie Sherlock, Mary Lou McDonald and Ingrid Miley joins Claire on the line from Dublin city centre.
This week the murder of detective Garda Adrian Donohue Paul Reynolds reports from Dundalk - Irelands debt deal Prospects and the delay in finding the horse meat source in beef burgers, how much damage is being done to the billion euro industry?
The panel Brian Hayes Minister for State, Shelia Nunan, Fionnan Sheehan & Maree Gallagher , Lawyer with Maree Gallagher Associates. Claire is also joined by phone with Mark Hennessy of London Editor of the Irish Times & Dr.Alex Richardson from the University of Oxford, to discuss Croke Park II and the horse meat in the beef burgers.
Claire is joined by Alan Murray Security journalist to discuss the ongoing violence in Northern Ireland. Ingrid Miley, Gerard Flynn, Paul Sweeney, Derek Scally Irish Times Correspondent in Berlin and Stephen Kinsella discuss the IMO Conference and Professor John Crown and Committee Chair Jerry Buttimer discuss the Oireachtas Committee on Abortion.
Todays panel discuss the death of Minister Shane McEntee, abortion legislation & a review of 2012. Fine Gael's Regina Doherty, Minister Kathleen Lynch of Labour, Irish Times columnist Breda O'Brien, Tommy Broughan of Labour, columnist Alison O'Connor and Mick Clifford of the Examiner & the Sunday Times join Claire in studio.
Lise Hand and Minister Jan O'Sullivan talk about Colm Keaveney. Brid O'Brien, Chris Van Egeraat, Ciaran Mulooly and Edmund Harty discuss jobs and Pat Spillane joins Claire on the line to talk about the untimely death of GAA legend Páidí Ó Sé.
After the budget - Claire talks to Pearse Doherty of Sinn Fein, Minister for Agriculture Simon Coveney, Michael O'Regan of the Irish Times and economist John Fitzgerald of the ESRI.
Claire talks to Minister Pat Rabitte, Stephen Collins, Noeleen Blackwell, George Lee, Michael Dowling and Stphanie Meehan. This weeks topics are the upcoming budget, property tax and Priory Hall.
Claire is joined by Pat Leahy of The Sunday Business Post, former Labour minister; Roisin Shortall, Regina Doherty TD of Fine Gael, Cormac Lucey of UCD & Patricia King of ICTU. Topics include James Reilly, Savita Halappanavar, the budget & Ingrid Miley joins Claire on the line from an anti austerity march in Dublin City Centre.
Gemma Hussey, Alex White and Sarah McInerney talk about the abortion legislation post 'X Case' and Eamon Ryan, Simon Carswell and Stephen Donnelly on the banking crisis of 2008.
Claire talks journalists around the country to get a flavour of childrens referendum voting. Our panel discuss the Fianna Fail party. Jeff Moore-London Irish Centre & Fr.Bobby Gilmore-Migrant Rights Ireland comment on 'The Gathering'. Damien Tiernan from a Waterford anti austerity protest.
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