Eilis O’Hanlon: ‘If we were ever hit by nuclear war Nationwide would still go out with Anne Cassin in a hazmat suit’

One gets the sense that, if the country were ever ravaged by nuclear war, the show would still go out at the same time three nights a week, with Anne Cassin strolling down some country lane in a hazmat suit, cheerily announcing: “Tonight we’ll be asking locals in Cavan how they’re adapting to the radioactive fallout.”