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Tory Island, Bunbeg. Donegal in all its glory. Nuintir na Mara Sundays TG4 9:30
Muintir na Mara Episode 5 In this series Pádraig Ó Duinnín, a boat builder from Cork. travels by boat, bicycle and van around the stunning coast of Donegal.This week Pádraig goes from Bunbeg to Tory and stops off along the way at Bloody Foreland to take in the magnificant views and reflect on his journey [...]
Muintir na Mara Donegal
Muintir na Mara Sunday 9:30 TG4 In this final series Pádraig Ó Duinnín, a boat builder from Cork. travels by boat, bicycle and van around the stunning coast of Donegal. This week Pádraig watches the All Ireland semi final in Leitir Mac an Bhaird. travels by boat to Inis Caorach and Arann Mór and [...]
Muintir na Mara Donegal
Muintir na Mara is now in its sixth season. Master boat builder Pádraig Ó Duinnín has taken us on epic journeys along the coastlines of Cork, Kery, Clare, Galway, Mayo and Sligo. Director Martina Durac and Producer Vanessa Gildea have started filming our new series of Muintir na Mara and spent the last few days [...]
Happy Birthday to Maureen O’Hara
Happy birthday to the wonderful Maureen O’Hara who is 91 today, the 17th August, and still going strong. We had the pleasure of interviewing Maureen for our documentary ‘Dreaming the Quiet Man’. Maureen is presently putting all her energy into establishing the ‘Maureen O’Hara Legacy Centre’ in her beloved Glengariff West Cork. She will be [...]
We have a winner!!
The 100th member of the Loopline Facebook posting is Blink Moore. A great artist in his own right, worth seeing his latest work on Facebook, ‘The Last Supper’ painting. Blink wins an exclusive showing on Vimeo of ‘Dreaming The Quiet Man’ featuring Martin Scorsese, Peter Bogdanovich, Maureen O’Hara and Gabriel Byrne. Blink will be supplied [...]
Happy New Year!!
All is well after the Christmas Holidays and everybody is settling back to business at 9 Lad Lane for a busy year ahead. We said goodbye to 2010 in style as up to 100,000 people across the country, cosy in their homes and safe from the frost and snow, tuned into RTÉ 1 on Christmas [...]
Hot Docs – Toronto
How did I live this long without blogging? As mentioned my last day in Toronto and the sun is splitting the rocks it must be 22 or so degrees, it truly is ‘Hot’ Docs! This has been one of the best festival / Markets I’ve ever been to, so well organised and much more friendly [...]
Vanessa here
Vanessa here at the last day of Hot Docs Festival in sunny Toronto. Not the last day of the festival but last day for me unfortunately. Great festival and think I’ve made a few new and good connections for Loopline, will report more in full later. Vanessa Gildea reporting for Loopline News, Toronto, Canada.
RTE Radio ‘Age and the City’ features Nan Merry