As the ins and outs of the taping controversy exploded this week, Talking Point asks:

• if the Gardai say they knew nothing about the tapes, then what’s the crisis?
• if nobody told successive Ministers for Justice about the tapes, then why should Alan Shatter be under pressure?
• and is the public image of the Gardaí now fatally - but unfairly - tarnished?

Sarah discussed these questions with her panel today. She was joined by:

• Declan Keaveney, retired Garda inspector,
• David Langwallner, director of the Irish Innocence Project and Dean of Law at Griffith College Dublin,
• Gerry O'Regan, former editor of the Irish Independent.

You can listen back to the discussion below and it's also available as a podcast on iTunes and the Newstalk app.

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