Tonight with Vincent Browne

Topic: Preview of 2010

Topic:  Vincent and his panel of guests look ahead to 2010 and predict some of the challenges and opportunities that lie ahead. 

Panelists: Siobhan O'Donoghue, Matt Cooper, Sam Smyth and Terry Prone.

Topic: The 'Tonight' newspaper awards

Judges: Marie-Louise O'Donnel (DCU)l, John Bisset (community Development Worker and author), Sinead Pentony (TASC), Ivan Yates
Below are some of the messages received by the programme. In 2010 we will be hosting a liveblog of the show on Politico.ie

Topic:  Sex in Ireland

Panelists: Diarmaid Ferriter, Breda O’Brien and Tom Inglis.

The regulatory structures are already in place, the problem is the regulators are too close to the bankers and the regulation is not bfing enforced. That's it. No need to spend millions to discover this.

Mick.

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Topic: Vincent reviews the current economic and banking crisis with three of the year's author-commentators`.

Panelists: Matt Cooper, Jim Power of Friends First, Fintan O'Toole of the Irish Times

Corrupt church. Corrupt 'government'. Corrupt financial system. Corrupt Irish. Bog-trotting Paddies. What's new is that the disease is presenting now.

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Topic: Budget 2010

Panelists: Conor Lenihan, Junior Minister, Joan Burton, Labour Finance Spokesperson, Brendan Keenan, economist, George Lee, Fine Gael TD

Topic: Budget Special

Panelists: Joe Durkan, Economist, Mary Murphy, Sociologist, NUI Maynooth, Blair Horan, CPSU, Michael Taft, Unite, Sean Murphy, Chambers of Ireland.

Topic: The alternative budgets as proposed by Fine Gael, Labour and Sinn Fein.

Panellists: Matt Cooper, Roisin Shorthall of Labour, Kieran McDonnell of Fine Gael and Arthur Morgan of Sinn Fein.

Topic: Garda strike and the underreported and underdiscussed crime of rape.
Panellists: Fiona Neary of the Rape Crisis Network, Conor Hanley, author of a book on rape and a lecturer in Law in NUIG, Detective Inspector Nigel Oliver from the Crystal Unit of Hampshire police, and Fergus Hogan a social care lecturer at Waterford Institute of Technology