On Tonight with Vincent Browne, John McGuirk of the National Forum, community development worker Anna Quigley, Evening Herald columnist Sinead Ryan and Fr Seán Healy of Social Justice Ireland wrestle with the Shaping Ireland’s Future report. {jathumbnailoff}

The claim that Fine Gael has to respect Michael Lowry’s mandate is hypocritical. By Vincent Browne.

Vincent Browne responds to Twitter's take on last night's programme. Panel: Diarmaid Ferriter, Robert Ballagh, Niamh Puirséal and Nicola Cooke. {jathumbnailoff}

On Tonight with Vincent Browne, Diarmaid Ferriter, Robert Ballagh and Niamh Puirséal will explore Ireland's sovereignty in a historical context. Vincent Browne poses two questions ahead of the show. {jathumbnailoff}

RTÉ was bound to lose the run of itself - and it did. By Vincent Browne.

There might have been an inevitability about the crisis at RTÉ. There has been no external director general at the station since 1968, when Kevin McCourt quit, having been hand-picked by Sean Lemass in 1963.

Not since the late 1960s had there been any critical appraisal of journalistic standards, practices and output at the station. The damage done by the censorship imposed by Section 31 of the Broadcasting Act over almost a quarter of a century was never repaired.

Below, Vincent Browne responds to some of the issues raised on the Tweet machine tonight. (Tonight's guests were Declan Ganley and Dan O'Brien.) {jathumbnailoff}

Vincent Browne blogs ahead of tonight's show on the Fiscal Compact Treaty referendum. Guests: Dan O'Brien and Declan Ganley. {jathumbnailoff}

The arguments for and against the Fiscal Treaty seem to be to be straightforward.

Vincent Browne responds to some of your tweets from last night's show with panel Richard Boyd Barrett, Sarah McInerney, Andrew Doyle and David Cullinane. {jathumbnailoff}

On this evening's Tonight with Vincent Browne: The eurozone crisis never went away - guests Richard Boyd Barrett, Sarah McInerney, Andrew Doyle and David Cullinane discuss the grim prospect of another bailout in light of Ireland's serious sovereign debt. {jathumbnailoff}

Through the EU, we have bought into a system of inflicting the costs of austerity on to the poorer sectors. By Vincent Browne.

Michael Noonan was again expressing satisfaction yesterday with how the economy was performing under the aegis of this Government.