There’s no place like home and away

Kyle Pryor aka Dr Nate Cooper was in Cork recently. Ellie O’Byrne asks him why Irish people are so addicted to ‘Home and Away’.

At 6.30pm on weekdays, television sets around the country have been tuning in to RTÉ for their daily fix of Home and Away since 1988.

My family didn’t have a television in the late eighties. I remember running to my friend’s house to make it in time for the theme music, crashing down on her sofa out of breath as the opening credits rolled.