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Nationwide Mary Kennedy Anne Cassin Image Name: Nationwide Mary Kennedy Anne Cassin Description: Nationwide presenters Mary Kennedy and Anne Cassin

Nationwide  – Wednesday 5th August – 7.00pm on RTÉ One

Tonight on Nationwide, presenter Mary Kennedy visits Charlie McGettigan, the talented singer-songwriter and winner of the Eurovision Song Contest in 1994, in his home of Drumshanbo, County Leitrim. Charlie is actually from Ballyshannon in County Donegal but for more than forty years now he has lived in Drumshanbo in County Leitrim where he is a very active member of the community.  He takes Mary on a tour around his adopted hometown, including a visit to the picturesque Acres Lake just outside the town.

Also in the programme, reporter Grett O’Connor goes along to the launch of the Tour de Munster where 110 brave cyclists will get on their bikes to begin a 650 kilometre journey around the highways and byways of Munster raising funds for people with Down Syndrome. The Tour de Munster cycle race begins on Thursday 6th August in Waterford and finishes on Sunday at St. Patrick’s Hill in Cork City Centre.

 

Nationwide  – Friday 7th August – 7.00pm on RTÉ One

This evening on Nationwide, the team visit the RDS for the 142nd Dublin Horse Show.

Presenter Mary Kennedy meets the Connemara stallion men and discusses the preparations for the International Stallion parade which includes France and England for the first time.  She speaks to some international show jumpers and also to the CEO of the RDS on the €35 million revamp of the complex due to start next year. We also hear about the nostalgia and the economic worth for tourism of the show this year. Plus, we find out about show jumping in the city at the Greyhound Stadia and about the retired racehorse ‘Forpadydeplasterer’ who is now a champion riding horse.