NATIONWIDE WEEK 20
MONDAY 15TH MAY
PRESENTER BLÁTHNAID NÍ CHOFAIGH
COMMUNITY PROJECTS
Nationwide visits a Tipperary village, where, when the only remaining shop closed, the community started their own. Plus, Bláthnaid Ní Chofaigh sees how an old post office, which was in ruin in a County Wexford village has been restored and is now centre of the community once again.
LORRHA COMMUNITY VILLAGE SHOP/REPORT MARIAN MALONE
Reporter Marian Malone visits The Scéal Community Shop, in the village of Lorrha in County Tipperary, founded almost seven years ago in response to increasing rural isolation and the closure of shops and other services in the village. The Community shop has been a great success and there are plans to expand and provide other needed facilities in a one stop shop, “So to speak”.
BALLYCARNEY POST OFFICE/REPORT BLÁTHNAID NÍ CHOFAIGH
Nationwide is in County Wexford where the locals in the village of Ballycarney are now utilizing, the old post office which was located in a cottage at the crossroads of the village and which had closed down many years ago and had virtually fallen down. Today it has been rebuilt by a local family who now share it with the whole community. Once again the Post office is at the centre of life in Ballycarney.
WEDNESDAY 17TH MAY
NO NATIONWIDE PROGRAMME – HOSPITAL LIVE ON RTE ONE
FRIDAY 19TH MAY
PRESENTER ANNE CASSIN
MUSIC AND ARTS
Tonight on Nationwide the programme features two stories of two very talented young musicians who are outstanding in their respective fields and who have very bright futures ahead of them playing music all over the world and here at home. In Dublin Anne Cassin meets a student of the violin whose playing is impressing all who hear her and in County Clare, the Piper who toured the world but has come home to the Banner to perfect her trade.
TARA HOWLEY PIPER/REPORT ANN MARIE O’CALLAGHAN
It’s no secret that County Clare is one of the strongholds of trad music in this country. Growing up immersed in this tradition literally opened up the world to Tara Howley and after seven years as solo piper with Riverdance, she has decided to return home to her native Kilfenora to focus on her own career.
YOUNG VIOLINIST/REPORT ANNE CASSIN
Dubliner Daimee Ng was just three years old when she took up the violin and 6 when she made her international debut in Budapest. Now 18, and about to leave secondary school, Daimee has won prizes in multiple national and international competitions and is the current holder of the Frank Maher Classical Music Award. Anne Cassin went to meet Daimee at school and hear her play.