Talking Point Panel Discussion: Recent Episodes
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Talking Point with Sarah Carey takes an in-depth look at the main story of the week. With our panel of experts we step away from spin and find the nua
48 mins: Andrea Gilligan is joined by Carl O'Brien, John Walshe, Aoibhinn Ni Shuilleabhain and Tony Donohoe.
Sarah discusses Gene Editing technology and its moral and ethical implications with David Mc Connell, Gerard Casey, Pat Clarke and John Waterstone
Sarah is joined by Marie Hayden, Denis Duff and Ossian Smyth to discuss renewable energy and Ireland's Energy future
Sarah is joined by Lorraine Dempsey, Colman Noctor, Carl O'Brien and Jan O'Sullivan to discuss the issue of Special Needs Education in Ireland
Sarah is joined by James Kavanagh, Alan Ahearne and Maureen Gaffney to discuss Arrested Development: Becoming an adult in modern Ireland
Sarah is joined by Marie Boran, Eoin O’Dell, Angela Nagle and Leslie Shoemaker to discuss the impact of social media on public discourse
This week Sarah is joined by Donal Lynch, Eve Watson, Dr. Derek Freedman and Francis Fitzgibbon to discuss the challenges of being homosexual in Ireland today
Sarah is joined by Tom McEnaney, Barbara Scully and Eve Watson to talk about the Male Gaze
Sarah is joined byJennifer O'Connell, Stella O'Malley, Claire Hayes and Hazel Larkin to discuss the ISPCC's Headbombz camapaign and teaching children about Mental health
Sarah is joined by Susan Philips, Oliver Sears and Yaser Alashqar to discuss the Israeli/Palestinian conflict 50 years on from the Six Day War
44 mins: Sarah talks about the fallout from the UK General Election with David Cowling, Sebastian Hamilton, Terry Prone and Mark Hennessy.
This week Sarah travelled to Brussels for a Talking Point Special on the Future of the EU
This week Sarah discusses banking culture in the aftermath of the Sean Fitzpatrick case with guests Jim Power, Siobhán Ní Chúlacháin, Ciaran Hancock and Joris Luyendijk
Sarah Carey discusses whistle blowers with Declan Power, Graham Finlay and Estelle Feldman.
Sarah discusses Blasphemy and the fallout from the Stephen Fry case with Joe Humphreys, Ginnie Kennerley and Eoin O'Dell
France:If the centre holds, does the status quo win? Sarah is joined by Kevin O’Rourke from Oxford University, Emanuel Coman of TCD, Robert Elgie & Agnes Maillot of DCU
Sarah is at the women in media conference to discuss mothers returning to the workplace.
Enda Kenny is now Fine Gael’s longest serving Taoiseach. To mark this achievement we're revisiting an extended interview we did with him in December.
46.38 Gerry O’Regan - Columnist with The Irish Independent Patsy McGarry - Religious Affairs Correspondent, Irish Times Susan Lohan: Co-founder Adoptions Rights Alliance
On this week's Talking Point, Sarah is joined by Ronan Lyons, Karl Deeter and Lorcan Sirr to discuss Housing Policy
45 mins: Sarah is joined by Kevin O’Rourke, John Bruton, Karen Devine, Sebastian Hamilton.
46 mins: Sarah talks with Colm McCarthy, Sheila Reilly, Gerry O'Regan and Adrian Weckler.
46 mins: Sarah talks with Hugh Linehan, Culture Editor of The Irish Times Marie Boran science and technology journalist, Harry Browne lecturer in journalism in DIT.
Sarah talks with Chair of Population Health Medicine at TCD, Joe Barry, Former Director of Addiction Studies in TCD, Shane Butler and Professor Catherine Comiskey of TCD
46 mins: Sarah is joined in studio by Sinead Ryan personal finance columnist, economist Moore McDowell and Paul Sommerville of Sommerville Advisory Markets.
46 mins: Sarah talks with Professor John Coolahan of NUIM, Senator Aodhán O’Ríordáin, John Walsh Lecturer in Education Policy TCD, Joanna Fortune Child Psychotherapist.
49 mins: Sarah talks with Seamus O’Mahony author of The Way We Die Now, Regina McQuillan Irish Association of Palliative Care, Gina Menzies Theologian, Fr Michael Cusack.
Sarah talks with Dr Maeve Eogan Obstetrician at the Rotunda hospital, Margaret Hanahoe assistant director of midwifery at the NMH, and Krysia Lynch Chair, AIMS Ireland.
Sarah is join is studio by Graham Finlay, Liam Kennedy and Jon Ihle to assess President Trump’s inauguration speech and what we can expect from his presidency.
Sarah is joined by Patricia Casey Professor of Psychiatry to discuss whether we can psychologically evaluate President Donald Trump?
52 mins: Seamus Martin former Moscow Correspondent of The Irish Times, Professor John O'Brennan from NUIM, Ivor Crotty Head of Social media at Russia Today.
Rose Anne Kenny is Professor of Medical Gerontology at St. James's Hospital Dr. Yvonne Williams, NAGP Vice President Terence Cosgrave, health commentator
Sarah talks to Jennifer Redmond, Ciaran O'Neill, Dermot Meleady and Colm Mac Gearailt about Ireland's Bloodless Revolution before 1916
42 mins: Sarah Carey is joined by Jim Sheehan Psychotherapist, Barbara Scully broadcaster & writer, Richard Layte sociologist at TCD, Jane Gray sociologist at NUIM.
55 mins: Sarah Carey is joined by Barry Kenny Irish Rail, Sean O’Neill Transport Infrastructure Ireland, Cormac Rabbitt transport engineer, and author Laurie Winkless.
41 mins: Sarah Carey is joined by Senator Dr James Reilly, Prof Michael Barry of the NCPE, Paul Cullen of The Irish Times & Gina Menzies Lecturer in Medical Ethics.
59.52 mins: Sarah was joined by Founder of the Refuge/Shelter Movement, Erin Pizzey, Barrister at Family Law, Katie Dawson and Professor of Family Therapy, Jim Sheehan
Sarah Carey is joined by Pete Lunn of the ESRI, Jill Kerby Personal Finance Journalist, Councillor Keith Redmond of Hibernia Forum, Anna Connolly Business Psychologist.
Sarah is joined by George Carey creator of Newsnight, Terry Prone of the Communications Clinic, Hugh Linehan of The Irish Times, Harry Browne lecturer in Journalism.
This week we will find out who the next US president will be, but what will be the legacy of outgoing president Barack Obama?
Sarah discusses Brexit with Alan Dukes, Former head of the ESRI, Frances Ruane, Lectrurer in DCU, Karen Devine and Sebastian Hamilton of The Daily Mail
Sarah is joined by Declan Power, Vincent Durac and Susan Philips to discuss the fighting in Aleppo and Mosul and if there is any hope of an end to conflict in the region
Sarah Carey is joined in studio by Gina Whelan, Professor Anthony McCarthy and Dr. Jennifer Donnelly.
Sarah talks with a panel of experts about the changing attitudes toward cycling and the risks and benefits involved
Sarah talks with a panel of experts about the menopause, how it can affect women, the different treatments that are available, and the risks with them
Sports Economist and Author of Circus Maximus: The Economic Gamble Behind Hosting the Olympics and the World Cup and a Professor of Economics at Smith College.
James M. Cooper, Professor at the California Western School of Law. He has 20 years experience working for reform of South American criminal law.
David Walsh,Sunday Times,John Lee,Irish Mail on Sunday, Cllr & Olympic Silver Medallist Kenneth Egan, Andrew Zimbalist,sports economist & author, and lawyer James Cooper.
Sarah spoke to John Paul Brammer, an American journalist, a gay man who has written for the Guardian newspaper about Grindr and he explained exactly what Grindr is.
Sarah talks to a range of voices within the church reflecting the division, blown open by Archbishop Martin that he is no longer sending priests to train in Maynooth.
The panel discuss the explosion in car premium costs and if anything can be done to address it
In a podcast special Sarah Carey talks with a panel of politicians & political theorists about the state of democracy today. Has the Democratic Golden Age come to an end?
Our world is experiencing a lot of fragmentation. The panel discuss 'othering' and what identity means today.
Parents given a diagnosis of a fatal foetal abnormality are faced with horrible choices. Talking Point discussed how this affects parents during and after pregnancy.
Opinion is divided this morning, is Brexit the beginning of the end or will everyone calm down and get on with it because carrying on is the imperative?
Barbara Scully, Terry Prone, Joanna Williams and Paul Hayes joined Sarah in the conversation
John Bruton, Dan O'Brien and Cormac Lucey are joined by Ann Widdecombe and Mary Kenny to discuss Brexit
Is the problem as bad as we think, and what creative and practical solutions could get us out of the mess.
Sarah talks with a panel about Mary Magdalene and the role and place of women in the church throughout history and today
Oisin McConville, former GAA player and an addiction counsellor. He spoke with Sarah about his past gambling addiction.
Trinity College and UCD Student’s Unions have proposed that students should be forced to attend classes in sexual consent due to concerns about date rape.
Sarah talks with Dr. Julien Mercille, Dan O’Brien, Eamon Delaney, and Guy Rolnik about the state of media today and whether they are any good or not
Richard Colwell CEO of Red C , Gerard Howlin public affairs consultant, Clare Grady former editor of the Irish Independent and David Cowling of the BBC joined Sarah