Saturday evening’s Tommy Tiernan’s show on RTÉ 1 made for great television.
The three guests were Dylan Moran, Sarah de Lagarde and Seán Ronayne.
Dylan is a comedian and writer, Sarah is the victim of a tragic accident on the London Underground and Seán, who suffers Asperger Syndrome, is an ornithologist.
Dylan referred to the journey of his life and asked what was it all about, a question he said, all middle aged men must ask.
Sarah lost her arm, leg and many teeth in an accident at London’s High Barnet tube station in September 2022. She fell asleep traveling home after work, missed her stop and then on her way back was rushing, slipped between the platform and the train. At first she lost an arm as a train rolled over it and then later a leg as another train ran over it. Twenty tonnes of steel each time.
She was sure she was going to die. Then she thought of her two young children, that moment she forced herself to believe that she had to live.
She now has an AI arm and leg.
Sean works recording the sounds of birds and from those sounds is able to discover a vast amount of knowledge about their lives, to where they migrate, the food they eat, the meaning of their sounds. It was most informative.
Seán plans this year to start listening to the sounds of fish.
Yesterday was the feast of the Baptism of Jesus. God’s favour is with him and he joins the community.
Watching the three guests on the Tommy Tiernan Show it was easy to see that they were people who were aware that God’s favour was with them, explicitly or implicitly, does it matter which?
Surely that programme hinted more to many people about the reality of God than so much of what we hear from a clerical church.
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