Gerry Scollan

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Claire Byrne: when she was 14 an inspiring teacher got her some work experience on a local newspaper. Photograph: Nick Bradshaw
Claire Byrne: ‘My parents had to stand by the bed while I got the last rites’

THE RTÉ PRESENTER GREW UP IN A FAMILY THAT HAD ‘BIG CONVERSATIONS ABOUT WHO TO VOTE FOR’. CHILDHOOD MENINGITIS PERMITTING, IT WAS THE BEGINNING OF (...)

Claire Byrne: ‘I expect to be respected as a professional person doing a job, not just as a woman doing a job.’ Photograph: Dara Mac Dónaill
Claire Byrne: ‘I’m not a calm person at all. I can be quite highly strung’

‘A unique, entertaining – no, engaging – current affairs programme” is how the seemingly unflappable Claire Byrne describes her new Monday night TV(...)