Nationwide celebrates its 25th anniversary this autumn with a series of special programmes, reeling in the years for one of RTÉ’s most enduring and popular programmes. The presenters Mary Kennedy and Anne Cassin tell Donal O’Donoghue of the RTÉ Guide - get a sneak peek below.
Mary was a shy child and a constant worrier, a trait, she says, she got from her mother.
"I still suffer from anxiety," she says. "I have four adult children and they are great but you always want them to be happy and healthy and fulfilled. You will never, ever not be concerned for your child."
A number of years back, following the end of her marriage to the journalist Ronan Foster in 1997, she went to counselling and still does about once a month to "keep things in perspective. I have always found it useful to see things from a different perspective and it’s important to go when you’re well," she says.
Elsewhere in this week's RTÉ Guide...
- Brian Gleeson The Dublin actor is making waves in Taken Down and The Bisexual. Michael Doherty catches up with him
- Lynda La Plante With Widows on the big screen and her new Jane Tennison novel on the shelves, the award-winning writer talks Donal O’Donoghue about the best and worst of times
- Mary Black The legendary Irish singer chats to Darragh MacManus about music and family
- Cressida Cowell The How to Train Your Dragon author is back with the second Wizards of Once novel.
