The Meaning of Life - Season 6

First aired: 10/7/2012 5 episodes

Episodes

1. Mary McAleese

Aired: 10/7/2012

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. Noel Gallagher

Aired: 10/14/2012

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

3. Sean Gallagher

Aired: 10/21/2012

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. Niall Quinn

Aired: 10/28/2012

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. Norah Casey

Aired: 11/4/2012

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.