A DUBLIN professor who appeared on RTE's Prime Time programme to discuss the Covid-19 pandemic has told of how he buys The Irish News every day because it is a "bloody good newspaper".
Professor Bill Tormey, who is a specialist in chemical pathology, appeared on the current affairs show to discuss coronavirus and spoke about how he felt there should have been an all-Ireland approach to its handling.
During the interview, the 69-year-old, who is attached to Beaumont Hospital, as well as running his own practice, revealed he is a big fan of The Irish News, which he described as a "very important paper".
A former Fine Gael councillor, the father-of-three, whose daughter attended Queen's University Belfast, said he buys the daily newspaper every day because it is "educational".
"Of the six days a week, I miss it once a week because it is gone or it didn't get delivered," he said.
"I am a fan of Northern Ireland and I'm a nationalist. I think it's a very important paper.
"I know more or less what is going on in the Republic. I buy The Irish News because I think it is educational. If you didn't read something from the north, you become extraordinarily ignorant of what is going on in the north."
The professor, who is also Editor-in-Chief of the Irish Journal of Medical Science, said The Irish News informs him what "a reasonable nationalist person in Northern Ireland might think".
"I think it is a bloody good newspaper."
