Charlie Bird flying back in time again

Plain talking reporter or personality? The result of Bird's new tv show is not always a happy hybrid

Charlie Bird presents After the Headlines on RTÉ One

Charlie Bird is a revenant, returning once more to the screen of his times as the man on the spot, when, it was sometimes jocosely suggested, nothing could have happened unless Bird had reported it.

In Lost At Sea, the opening episode of the new three-part series After the Headlines (RTÉ One), Bird, in revisiting the loss off the south-east coast on January 10, 2007 of the fishing boats Pere Charles and Honeydew ...