'If Fine Gael or Fianna Fail have an answer, I'd love to hear it.'
In the run-up to the second season's release, JOE was able to take part in the global press conference for the show, which included getting to ask Irish acting legend Gabriel Byrne how he thinks the Irish people - as well as specifically the Irish government - might react to a post-apocalyptic situation.
"Mankind has always been susceptible to plague. They were writing about it in Roman times, all of the great philosophers were writing about how do we deal with a pandemic. The Black Plague in the Middles Ages, the Spanish Flu after the first World War. We are susceptible as a species to the invasion of foreign threats.
"And it was one man in Russia who didn't give the information to [former Premier of the Soviet Union] Khrushchev that saved the world. That man died about three years ago, a true hero of the 20th century, he's one of the reasons why we're all still here."Scientists, historians, anthropologists, sociologists, psychologists; these are roles that are not really respected in the world that we live in.
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