Keeping Ireland Alive: The Health Service in a Day airs on RTÉ One at 9.35pm on Monday.

The start of the Premier League season has Gary Lineker returning on Match of the Day on BBC One at 10.30pm tonight. 

Gay Byrne presents a documentary on the Catholic Church in Ireland, Last Orders With Gay Byrne, at 9.35pm, RTÉ One on Tuesday.

A group of elderly women travel to Amsterdam to try marijuana in A Granny’s Guide To The Modern World on Wednesday at 11pm on Channel 4.

Mrs Brown’s Boys gets a one-off live special tonight at 9.20pm on RTE One.

Francis Brennan’s Grand Indian Tour begins tomorrow on RTÉ One.

Peacekeepers — The Irish in South Lebanon is on RTÉ One at 9.35pm on Tuesday.

Esther Rantzen is paired with John on the first episode of Celebrity First Dates, on Channel 4 at 9pm on Friday.

The best of this week’s TV in one place. 

Claire Reddin, Maurice Walsh and Nick Reddin feature in Farmer in Charge on RTÉ One on Monday at 6.30pm.

The best of this week’s TV in one place. 

 

The Guards is a new series on RTÉ Two looking at life behind the scenes for gardaí in Dublin. It airs at 9.55pm on Tuesday night.

The Eurovision Song Contest Semi-Finals is on Tuesday and Thursday night on RTÉ2 at 8pm. The final is on Saturday. 

Tom Vaughan-Lawlor and Aoibhinn McGinnity feature in Trial of the Century, on TV3 at 9.15pm tonight.

Game of Thrones returns to Sky Atlantic on Monday at 9pm.

The Kelly family feature on ‘Doctor in the House’ on TV3 on Wednesday at 9pm.

The Ryan family get their health assessed in Doctor in the House on TV3 on Wednesday at 9pm.

Derval McGovern’s house features in Home of the Year on RTÉ One on Thursday at 8.30pm.

Barry Murphy, Risteard Cooper and Garry Cooke put an Aprés Match spin on the general election of 1982 on  RTÉ One, on Wednesday at 10.35pm.

Here’s some great things to do around the country this weekend.

SATURDAY

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WOODHILL HOUSE, and its wooded grounds a couple of miles from Cork city at Tivoli, is steeped in Irish and local Munster mercantile, artistic and political history, over several centuries.

APPROPRIATELY, there’s a view still to be had down from the wooded grounds of 2, Carrs Hill, to the exquisite spire and grounds of St Luke’s Church in Cork’s Douglas — the in-spired view is relevant, because this house was for most of its life the rectory that housed the various clergy and their families.

BRANDON at Kilcoolishal, Glanmire offers half an acre of sheltered, mature gardens and the space to trade either up or down.

Called Ritaville, this Sunday’s Well detached home has a trump card or two up its sleeve – in fact, it’s got something like gem status in local terms.

All set for a new future is the former pub/post office at Poulanargid, in the folds of woods and hills off the main Cork-Macroom road, near Lissarda and Kilmurray. 

This extended home hit the market, and these property pages, in the first week of January, and was quickly under offer: then, it went ‘Sale Agreed’ just a month or two afterwards, as the primroses did, indeed return in spring to Primrose Hill in Tower, near Blarney.

Called Tara, this accommodating family home near Blarney in Co Cork — with up to seven bedrooms over its split levels — was last offered for sale a couple of decades ago, but the owners decided to stay put: now, it’s for sale. 

Space, inside and out, comes as a given with this modern, five-bed detached home north of Youghal.

Billing No 1 Knockrea Lawn as a family home par excellence, estate agent Mark Rose notes there are four national schools all within walking distance of this four-bed, detached Cork suburban house, on the city end of the Ballinlough Road near Bellair estate.

There’s a glimpse of ‘the new’ to be had from the quite traditional No 19 Lima Lawn, in Cork’s suburbs near UCC and just off Magazine Road.

Nadia: Chasing the Dream TV3, 2.45pm