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NATIONWIDE – WEEK 8

Monday 20th February, 7.00pm, RTÉ One

On tonight’s programme, presenter Anne Cassin visits Shannon in County Clare, Ireland’s first ‘new town’ which was developed in the 1960s, and looks at how has evolved over the past few decades.  Some of the early residents share their experiences of living in the town, including returned emigrants who were lured back to Ireland with the assurance of jobs and houses – as well as migrants from Northern Ireland and Chile.  Anne also pays a visit to the Atlantic AirVenture Aviation centre where she gets a flight lesson in a simulator,  witnesses confessions in the local shopping centre and hears about ambitious plans for ‘The Venue’ a new centre for creative, community and civic engagement.

 

Wednesday 22nd February, 7.00pm, RTÉ One

Tonight Nationwide features some of the Irish who are making a life for themselves thousands of miles away on the other side of the planet.  We travel to Australia to meet the young and not-so-young who have set up home in Australia.

 

Friday 24th February, 7.00pm, RTÉ One

This evening Nationwide focuses on the art of home baking, meeting people with a love for baking, including parents and teachers, and some young people keen to learn how to create delicious baked goods.

In recent times there has been a renewed interest in baking programmes on television.  This has led to many people taking classes to learn about or improve their skills.  We visited the Baking Academy of Ireland in Dublin’s Palmerstown Village  to meet the teachers and students as they hone their baking skills.

Next on Nationwide to the tale of the Roscommon public health nurse who is making headlines in a very different field.  Margaret Sexton is passionate about baking, and now devotes much of her time to teaching others how to do it. She’s a former winner of the National Brown Bread Baking Competition – and now she’s embarking on an exciting new career move on the supermarket shelves of the country. Ciaran Mullooly goes along to see her in action.

Finally, reporter Niall Martin visits a gluten-free bakery in Dublin to see how gluten-free breads and cakes can be every bit as tasty as regular bakery produce.