NATIONWIDE

Broadcast Details: Wednesday 9th August, 7.00pm

NATIONWIDE WEEK 32    MONDAY 7TH AUGUST  BANK HOLIDAY – NO PROGRAMME   WEDNESDAY 9TH AUGUST  PRESENTER BLÁTHNAID NÍ CHOFAIGH  KILMACURRAGH GARDENS, COUNTY WICKLOW  This evening, Nationwide focuses on plants, shrubs and gardens as it visits the beautiful Kilmacurragh Gardens in County Wicklow.  Kilmacurragh is an 18th Century Country Estate which lay abandoned for decades until the Office of Public Works took it over in 1996 and set about restoring and replanting the historic gardens. Today, it’s renowned for having one […]

NATIONWIDE WEEK 32  
 

MONDAY 7TH AUGUST 

BANK HOLIDAY – NO PROGRAMME  

WEDNESDAY 9TH AUGUST  
PRESENTER BLÁTHNAID NÍ CHOFAIGH 

KILMACURRAGH GARDENS, COUNTY WICKLOW 

This evening, Nationwide focuses on plants, shrubs and gardens as it visits the beautiful Kilmacurragh Gardens in County Wicklow.  Kilmacurragh is an 18th Century Country Estate which lay abandoned for decades until the Office of Public Works took it over in 1996 and set about restoring and replanting the historic gardens. Today, it’s renowned for having one of the most important collections of mature exotic trees in Ireland.  Nationwide meets the head Gardener who shows us some of the exotic plant collection which includes 180 species and over 420 varieties of Rhododendron.  

FRIDAY 11TH AUGUST  
 

GUEST PRESENTER SHOW – ADI ROCHE  

As part of Nationwide’s 30th anniversary, this evening the programme turns back the clock to the year 2004 when Guest Presenter, Adi Roche brought us on a tour of the places, familiar to her as a child, in the town of her birth, Clonmel County Tipperary.  The programme hears about her upbringing and of the influences on her life growing up in the Tipperary town on the banks of the River Suir.