NATIONWIDE WEEK 26
PRESENTER DONAL BYRNE
MONDAY 27TH JUNE
IRISH CIVIL WAR 100TH ANNIVERSARY PROGRAMME
On this evening’s programme, presenter Donal Byrne looks at how and why the Irish Civil War began 100 years ago, starting with the Battle of the Four Courts in Dublin. He also looks at a remarkable project to restore many documents, thought lost in the destruction of the Public Record Office during that battle, and which now reveals a period of history spanning over 800 years.
WEDNESDAY 29TH JUNE
PRESENTER ANNE CASSIN
PRO-AM ADARE PROGRAMME
On Monday July 4th and Tuesday July 5th, the Golf Course at Adare Manor will play host to the 6th JP McManus Pro-Am Golf Tournament, a major international golfing event that will be televised live in the US. This world class gathering of leading international professional and celebrity golfers will join the lucky amateur players who have qualified for the tournament, the main purpose of which is to raise vital funding for more than a hundred charities in and around the Mid-West region.
CHARITIES/REPORT MARIAN MALONE
Since it was first staged in 1990, the Pro-Am tournament has raised more than 140 million euro, with the entire proceeds going to a wide range of charities. We visit three of these – Cuan Mhuire Addiction Treatment Centre in Bruree in Co Limerick, Limerick City Special Olympics club and Milford Care Centre, which provides inpatient and home hospice care to Counties Clare, Limerick, and North Tipperary. We see how funding from the last such event in 2010 has been used to provide crucial improvements to the services they provide.
ADARE MANOR/REPORT MARIAN MALONE
We visit Adare Manor itself as it prepares for the hundreds of golfers and celebrities, up to 700 volunteers, and some 40,000 spectators who will descend on it on the two days of the tournament. We also speak to Maeve Martin-Kelly, who has spent the last 28 years running Adare Heritage Centre, to find out how the tournament impacts the wider tourism and business community in Adare Village.
FRIDAY 1ST JULY
PRESENTER BLÁTHNAID NÍ CHOFAIGH
ENTENTE FLORALE IRISH ENTRIES 2022
This weekend, judges are visiting Ireland’s two entries in the European Entente Florale Competition, Dalkey and Keadue. Bláthnaid visits both of these locations and hear all about this prestigious European competition.
KEADUE VILLAGE/REPORT BLÁTHNAID NÍ CHOFAIGH
The Tidy towns volunteers in Keadue, County Roscommon are putting the finishing touches to the sprucing up of their village which is representing Ireland in village section of The Entente Florale competition. Bláthnaid visits some of Keadue’s landmarks and we hear about the annual O’Carolan Harp Festival commemorating the life of harpist Turlough O’Carolan.
DALKEY/REPORT BLÁTHNAID NÍ CHOFAIGH
Dalkey has a very active Tidy Towns group who have projects going on all year round and one of those featured on Nationwide some months ago, a project to clean up a coastal area where an unusual discovery was made. Bláthnaid went there to find out all about it.