RTÉ - Marian Finucane

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Robert Cottrell, editor of thebrowser.com

TV & Movies

Today's panel: Gavin Duffy - business consultant&, "Dragon" / Ted Harding, barrister / Aisling Meehan - farmer, solicitor&tax consultant / Gerald Flynn - former industrial correspondent with the Independent&with Align Management / Julie O'Neill - former Secretary General at the Department of Transport&now with, "Join the Dots"

Foreign news: Former UN aid workder and CEO of the Institute of Advertising Practitioners in Ireland Tania Banotti joins us in studio / Dr. Paola Rivetti on the Italian election / Bill Browder talks to us about the story surrounding the death of his lawyer in a Russian jail / Paddy Agnew from Rome on the Pope's retirement.

Marian talks to cookery expert Delia Smith about her career, life, religion - and passion for football! Her new book is, "Delia's Cakes," published by Hodder&Stoughton and her website is www.deliaonline.com.

Pete Lunn, behavioural economist with the ERSI, comes in to describe how people behave when we think we're being treated unfairly. Charles Duhigg, author of, "The Power of Habit: Why we Do What we Do and How to Change," talks to us about habits and replacing them with, "Acceptable behaviour."

Joe O'Shea and Joan Scales join us live in studio to tell us about the latest holiday destinations and deals available.

On today's newspaper panel: Tim O’Connor – Former secretary general to the President McAleese, former consul general in New York and now chairman of the advisory board of The Gathering, Michael Harding – author, playright and columnist, Eilis Quinlan – accountant and director of ISME, Matt Cooper – broadcaster and columnist and Deirdre de Burca – Social Policy and Advocacy officer with Caritas Europa which is based in Brussels and former Green Party T.D.

Foreign news: LIS – Denis Staunton – Deputy Editor - Irish Times / Sport - David Quinn and Joe Humphreys. We also speak to Paddy Agnew in Rome about the Pope and Peter O'Riordan in L.A. about the upcoming Oscars.

Marian chats to Irish rugby star Simon Zebo about his career, his current injury and the sacrifices he has made to get to where he is.

Rob Forkan speaks to Marian about losing both his parents in the 2004 tsunami, and about how he and his siblings have coped..

Fr. Kieran Creagh tells Marian about life in South Africa, the gun culture there and about he himself being shot.

Duncan joins us in studio to tell us how you can make your home more energy-efficient.

Marian and our panel discuss the main stories from today's papers.