Hector O hEochagain: 'How can you open the door and walk in and find your mother has died?'

"It feels as though the Irish language is undergoing something of a renaissance. Thanks to the acclaimed film An Cailín Ciúin, the language has achieved a kind of retro cool."

"For years known as a 'Marmite' media figure, his excitable on-screen persona and indefatigable devotion to 'craic' were sneered at in some quarters."

"Through millions of TG4 travel programmes, Hector hung in there, and, during the pandemic, people remembered why they liked him."

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