Newspaper panel: Peadar Tóibín, SF TD Meath West / Brendan Keenan - former Economics editor, Independent / Ciara Conway - Labour TD and deputy chair of Oireachtas Health Committee / Terry Prone - Chairman, Communications Clinic / Ken Murphy, Director General, Law Society.

Ferghal Purcell of the Lough Erne Resort in Enniskillen talks to us about the G8 Summit being held there this month.

With Michelle Obama and her daughters visiting these shores, genealogist Megan Smolenyak tells us about tracing Michelle(and Barack)'s roots.

Prof. Tom Barlett joins us live in studio to discuss the church and it's relationship with the state (and vice versa).