Nationwide
Presented by Mary Kennedy and Michael Ryan, Nationwide brings Irish viewers an eclectic round-up of news, views and events from around the country.
Programmes
MONDAY 20TH FEBUARY
A SPECIAL PROGRAMME FROM ETHIOPIA
We travelled to the heart of Africa to Ethiopia where we met Irish people and hear about the work that they are doing in that part of the world.
You may recognise some of the Irish sports people who volunteer their time for the Irish Charity, Playing for life, we see them get involved in aid work and they explain why they are so anxious to do what they can to help the charity help the people of Ethiopia.
And we explored the ways in which, we can help the economy of this vast country by visiting the beautiful sights that the Ethiopian tourist board want to show to the world
Contact: Playing for Life
Website: www.playingforlife.ie
Tel: 045 482 479
WEDNESDAY 22ND FEBUARY
GLOBAL SCHOOL ROOM/ REP. DEREK SIMON
Irish Charity called Global Schoolroom utilizes the experience of Irish teachers to provide teacher training in the North East of India. It has proven to be of great benefit to both Indian and Irish participants.
Contact: Global School Room
Website: http://www.globalschoolroom.net/
Email: info@globalschoolroom.ie
Tel: 01 845 6901
TO RUSSIA WITH LOVE/ REP. ROWAN HAND
Debbie Deegan founded the charity "To Russia with Love", she has helped support more than 2000 children in ten orphanages and the work is ongoing. Now the early children have grown, have been educated and have made something of their lives. They are truly making a difference in their Russian homeland as Rowan Hand has been finding out.
Contact: To Russia with Love
Website: www.torussiawithlove.ie
Email: info@torussiawithlove.ie
Tel: 01 853 2920
IRISH AID WORKERS/ REP. MARY KENNEDY
Stephen Cahill is a Dubliner, who's Head of Logistics with the United Nations World Food Programme in Addis Ababa. He moved To Ethiopia with his French wife and five delightful children five months ago so they're just settling in. And. Fr Kevin O'Mahony, a missionary priest who's been in the Tigray region for more than forty years.
FRIDAY 24TH FEBUARY
DIVINE MERCY/ REP. MARY FANNING
First to the RDS where the Divine Mercy conference was held last weekend attended by thousands. Mary Fanning went to find out why.
Contact: Fr. Cathel Price
Website: http://www.divinemercyconference.com/
DOUCE FARM/REP. ALASDAIR JACKSON
This is the story of a German couple who moved to a small West Cork farm in the mid-Nineties. They have two teenage children, but even with a family of four they've managed to make a living from the farm, although as Alasdair Jackson's found not purely from farming.
Contact: Douce Mountain Farm
Website: http://www.doucemountainfarm.com/index.html
Email: mail@doucemountainfarm.com
Tel: 027 66263 or 086 320 7561
CAMINO WALK/ REP. MARY FANNING
Former security correspondent of the Irish Times and now foreign editor, Peter Murtagh, shot to fame as co- author of 'The Boss' about Charlie Haughey but last year he and his, then, eighteen year old daughter, Natasha, walked 800 kms along the Camino to Santiago Del Compestela. The result sore feet and a book, 'Buen Camino.'
'Buen Camino' by Peter Murtagh is published by Gill and Mc Millen and is available from their website http://www.gillmacmillan.ie/
ISBN: 9780717148431
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