RTÉ - Marian Finucane

Director Lenny Abrahamson and producer Ed Guiney join Aine to talk about the success of their film 'Room' at the Oscars and what's next.

Catriona Palmer talks about her birth mother who she tracked down at the age of 27 and the secretive relationship that ensued.

Aine is joined by Mayo's Sarah Rowe, Cork's Anna Geary and Cliona Foley of the Irish Independent who talk about double standards in Irish sport.

Aine is joined by Noel Rock of Fine Gael, Lisa Chambers of Fianna Fail and Kathleen Funchion of Sinn Fein who are all newly elected to the Dáil.

Make-Up artist Annie Gribbin joins Aine in studio.

Ken Murphy - Law Society of Ireland Director General, Mick Clifford - Special Correspondent, Irish Examiner, Niamh Hourigan - Head of Sociology at UCC, Sam Smyth - Columnist Irish Mail on Sunday & Paul Somerville - Market Analyst

London Editor of the Irish Times, Denis Staunton joins Marian on the line from London to talk about the upcoming EU referendum in Britain.

Journalist and media consultant Miriam Donohue joins Marian to talk about Hospice Africa Uganda.

Jack Thompson of the Clinton Institute in UCD joins Maroian to talk about the Republican and Democratic primaries.

Today’s panel to review the Sunday papers is Brian Hayes, FG MEP and Director of Elections; John McGuinness, FF TD for Kilkenny/Carlow and Chairman of PAC; Ursula Tipp, Tax Expert, founding member Tipp McKnight Solicitors; Paul Williams, Irish Independent Crime Journalist; Ciarán Hancock, Finance Correspondent, The Irish Times.

The National Front received 6.8 million votes in recent local elections in France and now controls 20% of the total seats nationwide. Their leader, Marine Le Pen, has made the party more moderate and broadened its appeal to voters. John Horne, retired Professor of Modern European History in Trinity College in in studio to discuss

Up until now the general view was that the best sprinters come from Jamaica and the best long distance runners come from Ethiopia and Kenya. Rasmus Ankersen however says that talent spotting and mindset have an even bigger role to play in sport than race. He is coming to Dublin next week to speak at the Pendulum Summit in the Convention Centre.

He is called “Don Patricio” and hailed as the saviour of football club FC Barcelona. Last Wednesday night Irish man Patrick O’Connell was inducted into the FC Barcelona Hall of Fame. Fergus Dowd, Chairperson of the Patrick O’Connell Memorial Fund, and Patrick O’Connell’s grandson Mike O’Connell is on the phone from Manchester.

Charlie Bird was particularly ‘moved’ by the Marriage Equality Referendum last year and was inspired to create a ‘multi-media experience’ ...... a play, a book and a photographic exhibition called ‘A Day in May’. 

This is often the time of year when we start to look at where we will go on holidays. Joan Scales, travel writer with the Irish Times, is in studio with information on new flight and travel destinations for 2016