Today the team are looking at the Michael Lowry controversy that has dominated the front pages for the past week.

It’s been both a good and a bad week for the Tipperary TD depending on whether you have a national or local viewpoint, leaving plenty for INM’s political correspondents Niall O’Connor and Philip Ryan to muse over.

With the Banking Inquiry finally producing its report this week, the Irish Independent’s Public Affairs Editor Shane Phelan joins the panel to ask was it really worth €6.5m – and why is the French banker Jean-Claude Trichet the scapegoat.

Jason Kennedy from independent.ie tells us what’s making a splash on social media.

And it’s a big weekend for the Labour Party with their pre-election conference taking place in Mullingar.