Shanks Mare

Series will be repeated Sunday mornings at 10am starting on Sunday August 3rd 2008.

In Shank's Mare, Ella McSweeney goes walking around the country and introduces us to the people, flora and fauna she meets along the way. From stunning Donegal to the rough edges of Mayo's coastline, ancient woodlands in Derry to rugged Kerry, she hears about the wildlife and people that make Ireland's hills, mountains and coastline such a magical environment for walking.

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Ella McSweeney

Ella has been presenting Shanks Mare since it started in 2004, when she returned to RTÉ from working in the BBC.  After graduating from Trinity College where she studied zoology, Ella first worked for RTÉ in 2000, presenting the science series Future Tense and the wildlife series Nature's Web. She made three documentaries for RTÉ, one of which she won the Young Science Journalist of the Year award in 2000. She produced and presented the science series Mind Matters and the marine biology series Into the Deep.