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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 – Monday 5th October – 7.00pm on RTÉ One

This evening’s Nationwide is all about Irish bread, all part of celebrating  National Bread Week. The programme travels to Clonmel in County Tipperary to meet a home baking expert and also some members of the Irish Country Women’s Association.

Presenter Anne Cassin takes a trip to Louth to visit McCloskey’s bakery to find out about bread making on a commercial scale. She also travels to Clonmel, County Tipperary, to meet champion home baker, Betty Williams who gives her some tips on how to make the perfect brown bread.

Also in the programme, RTÉ Western Correspondent Pat McGrath visits County Mayo where three Polish brothers have used their bread-making expertise to build a successful business.  The Breadski Brothers have adapted traditional recipes from their homeland to create products that appeal to the Irish palate.  Since they came here three years ago, they’ve expanded steadily and their bread is now being distributed countrywide.  Reporter Pat McGrath has been to the Breadski Bakery in Castlebar.

 

 

Nationwide – Wednesday 7th October – 7.00pm on RTÉ One

On Thursday evening, Ireland will take on Germany in their campaign to qualify for the European Championships, with live coverage of the game on RTÉ2. Audiences of Irish soccer were shocked earlier this year with the sad news of the passing of one of Ireland’s best known and loved sports presenters Bill O’Herlihy.  In 2012 Mary Kennedy went to meet Bill at his home to talk about his life and times and his love of the beautiful game.  On tonight’s programme, in advance of the Ireland-Germany game,  Nationwide revisits that story on Bill and his life in front of the camera.

 

Also in the programme, RTÉ’s Dublin Correspondent John Kilraine visits the Drimnagh Boxing Club which has bred some of the country’s best known champions over the years.  Now celebrating fifty years in amateur sport the club has a rich history and is currently rebuilding for the future.

And in Portumna, County Galway, reporter Valerie Waters learns about the close contact sport of Judo, one of the most popular sports in the world. A highly experienced Judo practitioner has adapted the sport to suit the needs of special needs children and it is proving very successful.  Valerie goes to see the sport in action.

 

Nationwide – Friday 9th  October – 7.00pm on RTÉ One

On tonight’s programme Mary Kennedy visits ReCreate, a recycling centre at Ballymount in Dublin.  Companies donate unused excess materials that would have gone to landfill and members can then take away as much as they like for use as arts materials.   We meet artists who use ReCreate as a source of inspiration and raw materials including one National College of Art & Design Graduate who was invited to a design showcase at Brown Thomas recently on the strength of what she designed from waste  materials she picked up at ReCreate. We also meet the artist who bakes his art from leftover paints found at recycling centre.