This week, Stephen Donnelly talks about his experience as an Independent TD, whether he has managed to achieve what he wanted when he decided to get into political life, what the prospects are for any new Irish political parties and what his own position is on social and economic issues. Plus Patrick Smyth, Derek Scally and Ronan McGreevy discuss this week’s centenary commemorations of the start of the First World War and what they mean in Ireland and Germany 100 years later.

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