EPISODE FOUR OF SIX, RTÉ ONE, SEPTEMBER 28TH AT 8.30PM
In this episode of Making it Down Under,
Flight Nurse Alan O’Riordan is called to Port Macquarie hospital to transport a patient with a serious heart condition to a bigger hospital in Sydney. He’s go to fly 400 kn to pick up the patient. On arrival Alan finds the patient in high spirits, cracking jokes and making light of the situation but Alan recognises a nervous passenger when he sees one.
In a goldmine 600 kilometres north of Perth Elaine Hayde, Mining Geologist, checks the gas monitors of her colleagues but finds herself on the end of a scar when her own monitor gives off an alarm.
Flying doctor Matthew Mulkeen on an emergency footing as he flies 200km up the coast to Hervey Bay. An elderly woman has suffered a cardiac arrest and needs to be transported to a larger hospital for possible surgery.
We meet retired health worker Josie Finnegan, who emigrated from Cashel to Sydney in 1970. She made the journey by sea in a six-week-long voyage on the Achille Lauro with her late husband, Pat, and their three young children. The Finnegans thrived in Sydney.
We find Josie at the Irish Australian Welfare Bureau office in Sydney where she volunteers on a regular basis. Today she’s joined by life long friend Gertie Hennessy who is on a visit Down Under from her home in Ringaskiddy. The women reminisce about their lives while preparing lunch for Josie’s children and grandchildren.
Kate Doyle and her fiance Ian Hayes do that most Australian of activities – shopping for a BBQ before heading to seafront to cook it all on a public barbie. Later we get to see what the housing market is like in Perth as they look at some newly built houses and talk about their future plans once they’re married.
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Trainee jockey Louise Day goes on a pre-dawn ride out at Caulfield Stables where she works. Later she gets the glad rags on and heads into downtown Melbourne. While enjoying coffee and cakes with her friend we hear all about the trials and tribulations of women working in a male-dominated industry.