A question of taste - Edwin Sammon

Offaly native Edwin Sammon will be manning the news desk on the new series of Republic of Telly on RTÉ2 from Monday. He also plays Fr Gabriel in Bridget and Eamon.

Best recent book: The Etymologicon by Mark Forsyth which is a fascinating and funny book about the origins of phrases and language in general which reads like one long stream of consciousness and is very hard to put down.

Best recent film: I’m really enjoying the great westerns that have been coming out recently. The Revenant and The Hateful Eight but also Slow West and Bone Tomahawk.