Book review: Saol: Thoughts from Ireland on Life & Living

For current affairs broadcaster Claire Byrne, life has changed irrevocably since the birth of her first child, Patrick. He has made her “more empathetic and I think I operate differently both at work and in my private life,” she says in this collection of thoughts on life and its meaning from some well-known and not so well-known people.

The 66 contributors are all thinkers, writes its author, Catherine Conlon, a lecturer in epidemiology and public health at University College Cork.