In Kitchen Hero: Donal’s Irish Feast (7.00pm RTÉ One), the Skehan lad travels to see small food producers in individual counties, takes their produce and cooks a feast with them. Guess Who’s Dead? (10.15pm RTÉ One) sees Ardal O'Hanlon taking look at death notices, while Neil Diamond is at the London Palladium for One Night Only, 9.00pm UTV.
Kitchen Hero: Donal’s Irish Feast
7.00pm RTÉ One
In each programme in his new series, Donal Skehan travels to a different county and visits three small food producers. He then cooks three dishes using the producers’ ingredients to create ‘the Feast’ in a spectacular country house to which the producers are invited. Nice idea. Donal starts his new series in Galway where he visits three of the county’s finest artisan food producers, whose names are Connemara Smokehouse (salmon), Connemara Hill Lamb, and Cuinneog Buttermilk. He then prepares the first ‘Feast’ at Lisdonagh House in Headford, Co Galway. Picture shows Donal with Finola Cooke of Lisdonagh House.
Guess Who’s Dead?
10.15pm RTÉ One
In this documentary, Ardal O’Hanlon (a politician’s son, an occasional expatriate, and a fictitious priest), explores the changing life of the Irish Death Notice. He meets Alice Hughes, who transcribed the death notices for the Irish Independent, brother and sister business owners Dympna and Jay Coleman who set up rip.ie and Tipperary restaurateur, publican and undertaker Jasper Murphy. He shares a drink with writer Eoin Butler and drives Fianna Fail TD Timmy Dooley to his office. Ardal listens to the people around the country who share an interest, indeed a passion, in keeping up with the death notices – whatever media it may be on.
Neil Diamond: One Night Only
9.00pm UTV
Legendary American music star Neil Diamond takes centre stage at the London Palladium for a one-off TV special. Rob Brydon, one of Neil’s greatest fans, hosts the show and takes his musical hero on a journey back to Brooklyn to where Neil Diamond’s story began. The pair head to Coney Island and Brighton Beach, to Flatbush and to Neil’s childhood home as well as spending time at the legendary Bitter End Club. Neil performs some of his greatest hits as well as tracks from his eagerly anticipated new album.
