← The Meaning of Life

Season 6

5 episodes · 2012

  1. 1Mary McAleese

    07 Oct 2012 · 47 min

    Mary McAleese gives her first televised interview since leaving office, speaking to Gay Byrne with extraordinary candour about how her life has shaped - and been shaped by - her beliefs and attitudes.

  2. 2Noel Gallagher

    14 Oct 2012 · 27 min

    Oasis musician Noel Gallagher discusses his career, and his relationship with his brother Liam.

  3. 3Sean Gallagher

    21 Oct 2012 · 27 min

    In his first televised interview since his presidential campaign, Sean Gallagher tells Gay Byrne what gave an almost-blind schoolboy the self-belief to run for the highest office in the land.

  4. 4Niall Quinnfinale

    28 Oct 2012 · 27 min

    One of Ireland’s most successful and best loved footballers, Niall Quinn, tells Gay how a mixture of faith, family and luck enabled him to “swim in the river without getting wet,” in a sport that was rife with drink, gambling and how he survived the kind of post-career depression that killed his friend Gary Speed.

  5. 5Norah Casey

    04 Nov 2012 · 28 min

    In this profoundly moving interview, Norah Casey tells Gay Byrne how her Catholic faith has both been challenged and also sustained her, in the year since her husband's death.