The word ‘inspirational’ gets thrown around way too much these days.
When someone sings a song well on a talent show, the celebrity judges call it inspirational. When a dog finds its way home over a long distance, the clickbait headline says it is inspirational. When a footballer kicks a goal, the commentator declares it inspirational.
In many ways, the word inspirational means less than it used to, less than it should. But the man I am talking to on Wednesday night on The Weekly is the definition of inspiration.

Maurice Gleeson is blind and has been for half a century. The way it happened was in equal parts accidental and freakish — but it was his run of bad luck after he lost the ability to see that could jolt even the most cynical of us into some perspective.