RTÉ - Marian Finucane

Living off your nerves, moving from town to town, reporting from war torn sites and living out of a suitcase...... That’s the life of Norma Costello who is just back after spending a week embedded with the Peshmerga who are fighting Islamic State in Northern Iraq

Today's Panel to discuss the Sunday newspapers are: DR. KIERAN HICKEY - Department of Geography UCC; TOM LYONS, Sunday Business Post; GEMMA HUSSEY - Former Minister for Education; DR. MICHAEL O’TIGHEARNAIGH- Dublin GP; EUGENE McGEE (former Editor, Longford Leader). Tony O'Donoghue, Soccer Correspondent and Philip O'Connor, a journalist in Sweden discuss the Euro 2016 draw

The Shannon floods are causing untold misery for thousands who live along its banks. We hear from some of the people affected, Geraldine Mason and Geraldine Quinlivan in Co Clare and Keith Walsh in Athlone, and David Hurley of the Limerick Leader reports

Angela Merkel has just been named Person of the Year by Time Magazine. To profile the German Chancellor are Dr Jurgen Barkhoff of Trinity College Dublin and Bryan Walsh of Time Magazine, along with Gemma Hussey.

Six months on from the closure of Clerys, we thought we’d catch up with some of the staff and what they are doing since. In studio are John Finn, Gerhard Scully and Susie McGowan

Minister for the Environment Alan Kelly TD is in studio to talk to Marian Finucane

Natasha Eddery Dunsdon talks about her late father, the jockey Pat Eddery who died last month.

JANET HAWKINS from the Blessington Bookstore and STEPHEN BOYLAN, Books Purchasing Manager in Easons are in studio with their recommendations for book buying this Christmas

In studio to discuss Christmas food and drink are Paul Flynn of The Tannery Restaurant in Dungarvan and Tomás Clancy, Sunday Business Post Wine & Spirits Correspondent

A new bankruptcy bill is before Cabinet which plans to bring the bankruptcy period down to just one year. To discuss this and the affects of bankruptcy, are John Butler, Director of the Cork Insolvency Centre and Financial Adviser, and one of his clients Michael.

Dr Pat Wallace, former Director of the National Museum of Ireland, has written a fascinating book on the controversial excavations at Wood Quay in Dublin.

Today's panel to discuss the Sunday papers are: David Horgan, Managing Director, Petrel Resources;  Colm McCarthy, Economist; Niamh Lyons, Political Editor, Times Ireland; Declan Power, Security Analyst; Eileen Gleeson, Chartered Director, Former advisor to President McAleese. 

Dominick Chilcott, the British Ambassador to Ireland, is in studio to discuss this week's decision by the UK government to commence air strikes against ISIL targets in Syria.

Pauline Tully is the estranged wife of convicted IRA man Pearse McAuley.  She came into studio to talk about domestic abuse

The recent attacks in Paris and the subsequent debate and airstrikes in Syria have brought the realities of war back into the public eye and one man who has seen conflict and the effects of war at close hand is the recently retired Brigadier General Gerald Aherne who has served in Syria, Somalia, Chad, Liberia to name a few