Tommy Tiernan’s Epic West review: Beauty, philosophy, and a sup of poitín

In the concluding episode of Tommy Tiernan’s Epic West we see the presenter's awe at the area he's travelling in, but he stops short of romanticising it 

Tommy Tiernan's Epic West

“We’re strange creatures,” Tommy Tiernan observes in the second episode of RTÉ’s two-parter, Tommy Tiernan’s Epic West. He’s at a holy well in the Burren, surveying mementos people have left behind – a white shell, rosary beads, woven rings.

Deftly poetic, Tiernan surmises: “We’re the spirit monkeys of the world – half here, half somewhere else.”