Claire Scott, political correspondent with The Sunday Times and Harry McGee, political correspondent with the Irish Times

Prof. Peter Neumann, Professor of Security Studies at King’s Cross University in London // Dr. Patrick Bury, Senior Associate Professor in Warfare and Counter-Terrorism at the University of Bath // Michael Harrigan, retired chief of the FBI’s firearm training unit

Pat Leahy, former Assistant Garda Commissioner

Dr. Maire Finn, Clare based GP and Dr. Alan Watts, Consultant in Emergency Medicine at University Hospital Limerick

Jennie Loughran, Librarian in Waterford and Tracy McEneaney, Librarian in Waterford

Aodhan O’Riordan, Labour Party MEP for Dublin and Barry Ward, Fine Gael TD for Dún Laoghaire

James Rothwell, Berlin Correspondent with The Telegraph

Conor Gallagher, Irish Times Crime & Security Correspondent

Adam Maguire, from the RTÉ Business Desk

Fionnuala Jones, Presenter and broadcaster and Brian Reddin, Producer and Director