Thursday TV Tips: Mícheál Ó Muircheartaigh narrates life on the Dingle Peninsula
Micheál Ó Muircheartaigh
New series following life on the Dingle Peninsula during Covid-19 over 6 months from May to early October 2020. Narrated by broadcaster Mícheál Ó Muircheartaigh, the title of the series was taken from Mícheal’s inspirational quote ‘Dúiseacht le dúthracht le breacadh an lae’ — ‘To wake with enthusiasm at the dawning of day’.
Micheál, who spent much of the pandemic cocooning in his native Dún Síon outside Dingle, shared the inspiring and still relevant wisdom of his Grandmother, which resonated with many early on in the pandemic and is recorded in the school’s folklore collection, collected in the 1930s.
Darragh will be at the Roscrea mart in Tipperary to see how online bidding is working for farmers, Helen will be in Cork with Ned and Edward English at Castlecor Potatoes in Mallow for their onion harvest, and Ella will be making beer in Laois Ballykilcavan Farm and Brewery.
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