encounters

First Encounters: Barry Devlin and Jim Lockhart

‘We both know where the bodies are buried’

First Encounters: Nick Webb and Mario Rosenstock

‘Mario’s warm but with a touch of sulphur’

First Encounters: Eoin Macken and Tim McDonnell

‘We suddenly realised we were best friends’

First Encounters: Ciarín Scott and Mary Finnegan

‘We have the same idiotic way of looking at the world’

First Encounters: Ruth Davis and Aisling O’Neill

‘She made me feel calm and still does’

First Encounters: Camille O’Sullivan and Feargal Murray

'We're like two old slippers'

First Encounters: Paul Wallace and Professor John Reynolds

'Sport and rugby are what we have in common'

First Encounters: Conor Niland and Síne Lambert

"She didn’t have a clue about tennis"

First Encounters: Ross Staunton and Amy Hamilton

‘I’m still a bit shocked we get on so well’

First Encounters: Marco Giannantonio and Maurizio Mastrangelo

‘We phone or Skype 10 to 15 times a day’

First encounters: Kevin Godley and Sulinna Ong

"Sulinna is hard-core; she's got a black belt in something'

First Encounters: Actors Marion O’Dwyer and Roxanna Nic Liam

‘At some stage, age stops mattering’

First Encounters: Pierre Chapeau and John-Paul Turner

‘I immediately felt “here’s a man I can talk with”.’

First Encounters: Michael Colgan and Doug Hughes

‘He’s got an ego but it’s an adjustable ego’

First encounters: ‘She is a lot more tolerant than a sane person would be’

Ray Byrne and Jane English of Wineport Lodge

First encounters: ‘I don’t think we ever did small talk’

Cecilia Ahern and Orla de Brí in conversation with Frances O’Rourke

First Encounters: ‘Once you’re off the track, you’re friends’

Danny Mullins and Martin Harley in conversation with Frances O’Rourke

First Encounters: ‘My whole family depended on her family’

June Rodgers and Brenda Brooks in conversation with Frances O’Rourke

First encounters: ‘I do get some reflected glory’

Nathan O’Toole and Aron Kehoe in conversation with Frances O’Rourke

First Encounters: ‘I felt really at ease around him’

In conversation with Frances O’Rourke

First Encounters: Neil Delamere and Bernard O’Shea

‘We’re both from the midlands – that’s part of the friendship’

First Encounters: Peter Coonan and Ronan Murdock

‘It’s true, I let him punch me in the head’

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