For this week's Sunday Paper review, Shane was joined in studio by UCC's Head of Sociology Niamh Hourigan, writer & journalist Frank McDonald, and Ian O'Doherty of the Irish Independent.

The biggest story of the week was the Volkswagen emissions scandal, and unsurprisingly there is plenty of analysis of the story in today's newspapers, including from Jeremy Clarkson in the Sunday Times.

"I have to say I was really glad he wrote the piece," Ian observed. "I spent the lost couple of days going 'what's the actual physical damage going to be?'.

"It took a few days to digest perhaps the lack of gravity in this particular thing," he added.

Frank disagreed entirely with Clarkson's view, saying "I think he's just making little of the whole thing. To say it was a bit of 'good-natured rule-bending' must be one of the euphemisms of the week".

Niamh said, "it really highlights the unintended consequences of regulation. You regulate to prevent one thing happening, and unintentionally something else actually happens. And it highlights the way in which government policy at a whole range of levels has been trying to manipulate people's choices."

Moving on, the next story was the decision by the Web Summit to host the event in Lisbon next year instead of Dublin.

"There was a massive flurry of outrage and national embarrassment," Ian pointed out. "And it seemed to just move on very quickly". 

Other stories covered by the panel include continued coverage of the refugee and migrant crisis, and the story of the Junior Minister who was given a lift by gardaí (which Frank described as "just a typically Irish casual abuse of power").

And a review of the week's news would be incomplete without a quick chat about those peculiar allegations concerning David Cameron...

You can listen back to the full paper review below: