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Nationwide – Monday 28th September – 7.00pm on RTÉ One

This evening’s Nationwide programme features the presentation of awards in the Tidy Towns Competition 2015.  Mary Kennedy and Anne Cassin are at the Helix Hall at DCU to meet the winners from different parts of the country.  The programme will focus on the main awards of Best Village, Best Small Town, Best Large Town, Best Large Urban Centre and the overall award winner.

 

 

Nationwide – Wednesday 30th September – 7.00pm on RTÉ One

On tonight’s Nationwide, we meet a woman in County Wicklow who has recovered from cancer, and hear about the Blue September campaign whose aim is to raise cancer awareness in men.  Plus we visit Our Lady’s Hospice in Dublin which offers support to those suffering with the disease.

This year celebrates the bicentenary of the Religious Sisters of Charity, the order that founded Our Lady’s Hospice in the 1870s.  It was the first hospice in this country and while still in its original location at Harold’s Cross in Dublin, it has expanded hugely over the years.  The palliative care unit provides a wide range of services to people with cancer and their families and this evening, on the eve of Breast Cancer Awareness Month, Nationwide pays a visit to this haven of care, love and support

Also in the programme, reporter Valerie Waters travels to the Walshe household in County Wicklow to meet Roz and Patrick who are donating an art collection to the Marie Keating Foundation as a fundraising effort. Roz has come through cancer treatment and is fortunately now well again.

 

Nationwide- Friday 2nd October – 7.00pm on RTÉ One

This evening Nationwide meets Philip Scott, ‘The Kildare Tenor’, who in mid-life decided to have his voice professionally trained in his quest to be the best he could be, culminating in a concert at the National Concert Hall entitled the ‘The life and songs of John McCormack‘.  It wasn’t a straightforward journey for Philip as reporter Mary Fanning finds out when she joins up with him in the Slieve Bloom mountains in County Laois.

Also on the programme, reporter Helen McInerney learns about Mick Delahunty, one of Ireland’s most popular band leaders who became known as Ireland’s Glen Miller during the ‘40s and ‘50s. The Mick Delahunty Orchestra was one of the first to tour England and America and they played to packed houses all over Ireland.  Recently the people of Clonmel, County Tipperary, marked the Centenary of Mick Delahunty’s birth with a big band celebration to honour his memory and his musical contribution and Helen finds out all about it.