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  • 2013-10-06T21:30:00Z on RTÉ One
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  • 5h (5 episodes)
  • Ireland
  • Documentary, Reality, Talk Show
What's it all about? Why am I here? Is there a God? Why do bad things happen? What happens when we die? In this series of the Meaning Of Life, Gay Byrne talks to public figures about these questions and others. Like him, none of them is a religious expert, but all of them have, at times, had cause to think about The Meaning of Life.

5 episodes

Season Premiere

2013-10-06T21:30:00Z

8x01 Colm Wilkinson

Season Premiere

8x01 Colm Wilkinson

  • 2013-10-06T21:30:00Z1h

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.

2013-10-13T21:30:00Z

8x02 Emily O'Reilly

8x02 Emily O'Reilly

  • 2013-10-13T21:30:00Z1h

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.

2013-10-20T21:30:00Z

8x03 Fr Peter McVerry

8x03 Fr Peter McVerry

  • 2013-10-20T21:30:00Z1h

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.

2013-10-27T22:30:00Z

8x04 Celine Byrne

8x04 Celine Byrne

  • 2013-10-27T22:30:00Z1h

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.

2013-11-03T22:30:00Z

8x05 Imelda May

8x05 Imelda May

  • 2013-11-03T22:30:00Z1h

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.

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