Updated / Friday, 15 Jan 2021
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Brenda Fricker and
Derry Girls star Nicola Coughlan will be among the guests on tonight s Late Late Show on RTÉ One.
Brenda Fricker
Oscar winner Fricker will pay tribute to the women and children of Ireland s mother-and-baby homes following the publication of the report by the Commission of Investigation this week
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Derry Girls, as well as her new Netflix period drama series
Bridgerton.
Nicola Coughlan (left) and Claudia Jessie in Bridgerton
Friday marks three years since the death of Dolores O Riordan, and rising star Lyra will be in studio to perform a tribute to The Cranberries lead singer.
Updated: 6 Jan 2021, 22:27
RTE viewers have said that they were sobbing as Operation Transformation leader Sharon Gaffney opened up about her divorce.
Tonight was the first episode of the brand new season of Operation Transformation and the first leader viewers were introduced to was Sharon.
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RTE viewers said they were sobbing watching Operation Transformation
Sharon is 44 and she lives in Drimnagh in Dublin with her three kids - 15 year old Paige and 10-year-old twin sons, Max and Leo.
On the show tonight Sharon, who works as the Director of Finance and Organisation Services in the Royal Victoria Eye and Ear Hospital in Dublin, opened up about her divorce.
Operation Transformation: Tears flow freely as a new series begins With our emotions in a swirl, these conversations from the heart feel devastating
Thu, Jan 7, 2021, 11:00 Ed Power
Everything else has changed but Operation Transformation (RTÉ One, Thursday) remains reassuringly familiar. Once more five members of the public with concerns about their weight sign up for an intense slimming programme. And yet again the series, an RTÉ staple since the late Gerry Ryan helmed the first season in 2008, proves its worth as it delves into the often painful backstories that have brought these strangers into our livings rooms.
Tears flow freely in the first episode. Hazel Hartigan from Limerick emotively recalls the deaths, several years apart, of her twin daughters. Sharon Gaffney from Drimnagh in Dublin speaks frankly about the end of her marriage and the esteem