Teilifís na Gaeilge has announced plans to spend £2 million a year on its daily drama series 'Ros Na Rún'. The station plans to make the Spiddal soap the centrepiece of its programming schedule.
John McColgan of Tyrone Productions comments on the need for a television channel to have a hit soap, saying,
It is ambitious but when it works it will establish the station, and establish its credibility with a broad audience.
Ros na Rún will be made by Tyrone and EO Teilifís at a cost of £2 million a year. With a cast and crew of seventy, the series will be shot on location on a set in An Spidéal in Galway.
Máire Ní Tuathail, CEO of EO Teilifís says that the programme will be different and fresh.
An RTÉ News report broadcast on 7 May 1996. The reporter is Jim Fahy.
Ros na Rún was first broadcast on TnaG on 3 November 1996. The programme had previously been broadcast on RTÉ One.
