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Nationwide - Anne Cassin and Bláthnaid Ní Chofaigh Image Name: Nationwide - Anne Cassin and Bláthnaid Ní Chofaigh

NATIONWIDE WEEK 9

On Nationwide this week we have three special programmes on Rivers, specifically the Three Sisters – The Barrow, The Nore, and The Suir.  These three beautiful rivers fan out across several counties including Laois, Tipperary, Carlow, Kildare, Kilkenny, Wexford and Waterford, where all three, join together to flow out to the sea through the Waterford Estuary.  All this week presenter Anne Cassin will be visiting some of the villages and towns established on these rivers, touching on their history and heritage and meeting some of the communities along the way.

MONDAY 24TH FEBRUARY

THREE SISTERS RIVERS PROGRAMME 1 – RIVER BARROW

Presenter Anne Cassin starts Nationwide’s series of programmes on the Three Sister Rivers – The Barrow, The Nore and The Suir with the longest of the Three Sisters and also the second longest river in Ireland – The Barrow.

WEDNESDAY 26TH FEBRUARY

THREE SISTERS RIVERS PROGRAMME 2 – RIVER NORE


Anne Cassin presents the second of our Three Sisters Rivers programmes and this evening we are travelling along the river Nore.  We begin in County Laois where we find out about the built heritage along the river.  We take a boat trip on the river in the medieval city of Kilkenny that it passes through, we see how the river once powered the mills along its banks, and we meet the community who literally rebuilt their connection to this River.  We also visit the Little Mill Company on the banks of the river Nore in Bennetsbridge and learn about its history.

FRIDAY 28TH FEBRUARY

THREE SISTERS RIVERS PROGRAMME 3 – RIVER SUIR

In our third and final programme on the Three Sisters rivers, Anne Cassin follows the River Suir through some of beautiful towns and villages that it passes by.  Rising on the slopes of the Devils Bit mountains in Co. Tipperary, this River travels 185 kilometres to meet its sisters, the Barrow and the Nore to flow to the sea in the Waterford Estuary.  We begin just outside the village of Holycross in Co Tipperary at a flood plain of the River Suir that, thanks to the local community, has been once again returned to nature. We learn about the Tipperary Blueway and all the activities associated with it on and off the water.  We end our journey in County Waterford where the River Suir flows out to sea.