Emmy Award winner Dearbhla Walsh gets a warm welcome from her proud hometown.
Dearbhla Walsh won an Emmy Award for Outstanding Directing for a Miniseries for 'Little Dorrit'.
On her return home to Sligo, there is a unique welcome for Dearbhla Walsh in her hometown of Tubbercurry. The west of Ireland town celebrated with blazing sods of turf and a vintage Rolls Royce.
Tubbercurry welcomes home its own Emmy Award winner Dearbhla Walsh West of Ireland style.
Eamonn Gallagher, chairman of The Phoenix Players says Dearbhla Walsh is being given the red carpet treatment.
Tubbercurry will party tonight.
A proud Tubbercurry woman, Dearbhla Walsh is overwhelmed by the reception saysing it is far more daunting than being at the awards in Los Angeles.
This is a small town with a huge heart.
An RTÉ News report broadcast on 24 October 2009. The reporter is Eileen Magnier.
