The Meaning of Life with Gay Byrne

Musical star, Colm Wilkinson, reveals why an absence of faith never stopped him singing his most famous song – the prayer, Bring Him Home from Les Miserables, which was written for him – with total conviction.

Emily O'Reilly the new European Ombudsman may be upwardly mobile and Strasbourg bound, but she’s scared stiff of lifts and aeroplanes. That’s just one of the surprising revelations, as the former journalist, once labelled “Blonde ambition” by PJ Mara, reveals to Gay Byrne a complex and thoughtful attitude to career, family, morality and faith.

Fr Peter McVerry tells Gay Byrne how that work and the homeless inspire, motivate and fulfil him and why the Church has much to learn from the poor about the real point of Christianity.

Gay Byrne talks to soprano Celine Byrne about her quest to balance a meaningful and fulfilling personal life with a jet-set international musical career.

You can take the girl out of the Liberties, but you can’t take the Liberties out of the girl. Dublin’s rockabilly darling, Imelda May tells Gaybo about the things, people, events and beliefs that give her life meaning.