This Week Sunday 8 October 2017
A look at events making the news in the past week with Colm Ó Mongain and Brian Dowling.
RTE's John Burke, reports on how Australia has moved to block convicted paedophiles from travelling abroad for child sex tourism. Also, Nobel Peace prize nominee Shay Cullen, outlines the scale of the problem in the Philippines.
RTE reporter Robert Shortt describes the mood in Barcelona as the Spanish government insists it will not accept any declaration of independence by Catalonia
Catalonian Foreign Minister Raul Romeva discusses the mandate for independence.
Prof Michael Marsh of Trinity College Dublin and Dr Kevin Cunningham of polling company Ireland Thinks on the reemergence of the centre in Irish politics in opinion polls
Victims Commissioner Judith Thompson on plans to deal with legacy issues of the Troubles. She met with some of the victims and families of the Dublin and Monaghan bombings on in Dublin on Friday.
Leonard Doyle of the International Organisation on Migration on the current crisis of Rohinga Muslims fleeing Myanmar.
Presenters: Colm Ó Mongáin & Brian Dowling