The Meaning of Life with Gay Byrne

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  • Premiered: Apr 2009
  • Episodes: 78
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  • Ended
  • RTÉ One
  • Sunday at 22
  • Documentary Reality Talk show

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Season 7
7x1
Colm Tóibín
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Jan 06, 2013
Multi award-winning writer, Colm Tóibín, is not a believer, but keeps returning to religious subjects in his work. Gay asks him why.
7x2
J. P. Donleavy
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Jan 13, 2013
JP Donleavy’s novel The Ginger Man has been called one of the 20th centuries 100 most influential novels. And yet, on publication, it was widely banned as a debauched and decadent text. .. show full overview
7x3
John Lonergan
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Jan 20, 2013
Gay Byrne interviews John Lonergan about the values and beliefs which shaped – and were shaped by – his career in Irish prisons and discovers a man more committed to the ethics of Christianity than to its creed.
7x4
Maureen Gaffney
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Jan 27, 2013
In criminal parlance, Gay Byrne and Maureen Gaffney have got “previous.” The UCD Clinical Psychologist was once a regular on his RTÉ radio show, establishing her as one of Ireland’s most .. show full overview
7x5
Maria Doyle Kennedy
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Feb 03, 2013
Award-winning actor and singer, Maria Doyle Kennedy, talks to Gay Byrne about music, motherhood and commitments - marital, religious and cinematic - and the other things that give her life meaning.
7x6
Christina Noble
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Feb 10, 2013
Christina Noble reveals to Gay the extraordinary events and inspiration that led her, as a formerly homeless Dublin child rape victim, to devote her life to helping Asian street children.
7x7 Season finale
Bono
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Air date
Jun 22, 2013
In a unique, in-depth interview between two Irish legends, Bono talks to Gay Byrne about the life that has shaped his beliefs and values and the values and beliefs that have shaped his life.

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