Dishes served on Donal’s feast tonight on Kitchen Hero (8.30pm, RTÉ One) include Rosemary Rib-Eye Steak with Horseradish Sauce and Fennel Salad, and Barmbrack Parfait with Whiskey Prunes. Love Your Garden with Alan Titchmarch begins at at 8.00pm on UTV Ireland. Legacy (RTÉ One, 9.30) recalls the career of the legendary Tony Ryan.
Ryan: A Legacy, 9.30pm RTÉ One
The second programme in the series charts Tony Ryan’s journey from ground staff worker in Aer Lingus to aviation high-flier. Following GPA’s spectacular crash, he managed a second coming with the fledgling Ryanair. The film takes account of his ambitious and protégé, Michael O’Leary, as Ryanair became Europe’s largest budget airline.
Tony Ryan
Kitchen Hero: Dónal’s Irish Feast, 8.30pm RTÉ One
Dónal heads to Tipperary this week and meets the producers of O’Donnell Crisps. In Thurles he visits Irish Piedmontese Beef, producers of a lean, low fat beef. In Clonmel Donal learns how to make Barmbrack at Hickey’s Bakery. Dishes served at Dónal’s feast in Inch House include Rosemary Rib-Eye Steak with Horseradish Sauce and Fennel Salad, and Barmbrack Parfait with Whiskey Prunes.
Kitchen Hero: Dónal’s Irish Feast
Love Your Garden, 8.00pm UTV Ireland
New series. Alan Titchmarsh travels to Walsall in the UK to surprise a young widow. Nina Perrin Seedhouse has three children to look after and her garden is a bare, blank canvas. Her husband Gareth died last year after battling cancer. Gareth was something of a local hero who worked tirelessly for Walsall Council. His greatest passion was for the parks and green spaces of his hometown and he had just begun to make a garden in their new home when he died. Alan and his team must give the family the dream garden that Gareth would have wanted..
