THE MEANING OF LIFEEPISODE 5 GUEST: EAMON MC CANN
This week Joe meets journalist, commentator, politician and veteran Civil Rights activist Eamon McCann in his home town of Derry. A confirmed and lifelong atheist, McCann reflects on growing up in Catholic Derry in the 60s, and how that formative experience of discrimination, together with the influence of his father’s trade unionism, would set his life on a course of of activism and politics. In an insightful and moving interview, he reflects on his own life, and the illness that made him take a step back from politics. And he speaks with candour and deep insight about the impact Bloody Sunday had on his own community, on the friends who chose violence over politics, and the lasting legacy of the Troubles in Northern Irish society to this day.