A Sporting Chance (9.00pm, RTÉ 2) continues in Limerick City, as a new team-building drive aiming to lift low spirits. On Neven Maguire: Home Chef (8.30pm, RTÉ One) Mary Kennedy cooks Guinness Beef Stew. Mairéad Farrell - Comhrá nár Chríochnaigh (9.30pm TG4) recalls the life of the young woman who along with two other unarmed members of the IRA was shot dead by the SAS in Gibraltar in 1988.
A Sporting Chance, 9.00pm, RTÉ 2
Three part documentary series set in Limerick that tells the story of a group of educationally disadvantaged young men and women who are brought together and given a ‘sporting chance’ to change their lives forever through sport. Over three months the group takes on a sport and life skills course in an effort to boost their confidence and enhance their future job prospects.With just weeks to go before the team leaves for London spirits are low. At a tense team meeting certain players are singled out for a lack of commitment. Liam and Rosie decide some team building is required so it's down to the race track for some high speed go-karting.
A Sporting Chance
Neven Maguire: Home Chef, 8.30pm, RTÉ One
Neven visits Mary Kennedy (pictured) whose father and grandfather worked at Guinness Brewery, and in their memory Mary cooks Guinness Beef Stew. The other recipes in this programme include Steak with Roasted Peppercorn Sauce and a Peanut Parfait. Neven - the son of a cattle dealer - also visits the cafeteria of a cattle mart to have a look at the bill of fare.
Neven Maguire: Home Chef
Mairéad Farrell: Comhrá nár Chríochnaigh, 9.30pm, TG4
Documentary on Mairéad Farrell (pictured below, who along with two other unarmed members of the IRA was shot dead by the SAS in Gibraltar in 1988 in one of the most controversial incidents arising from the Troubles. Their killing provoked an international outcry and eventual enquiry. Due to her youth, her gender and her stature within the IRA, Mairéad was quickly subsumed into the pantheon of Irish republican martyrs. Bríona Nic Dhiarmada, who was writing a book on Mairéad just before she was killed, revisits her memories in an attempt to make sense of her life and her death.
