Tony Holohan on the Meaning of Life: Joe Duffy takes off the gloves, but he’s no Jeremy Paxman

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Television review: Fascinating conversation with Joe Duffy confirms Tony Holohan to be an ordinary man caught up in extraordinary circumstances

Expandis that rarest of things: an Irish technocrat who ended up in the spotlight. Three years after becoming the face of Ireland’s response toDuffy catches a lot of flak because of Liveline, the radio equivalent of everyone in a room shouting at once: it’s where Ireland goes to be angry at itself. But he’s empathetic and thoughtful presenting The Meaning Of Life. That’s just as well as Holohan presents a particular challenge.Opposite Duffy, he’s chatty and amiable.

Holohan blinks away tears as he describes his family’s fear over Emer contracting Covid. “The thing that always kept me grounded was my own personal situation,” he says. “The risk of Emer going into the hospital.” In part two, Duffy takes off the gloves and turns to Cervical Check and that controversial Trinity gig, which, it turned out, didn’t receive the required sign-off .

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