Great to see the start of our #DillonsChallenges today on RTÉjr There are 10 challenges to get you up & about & out into the great outdoors! Our new doc #DillonsAdventures featuring the fab Dillon’s Adventures will broadcast on 26/10/20 at 3.40pm on RTÉ2 on as part of the TRTE My Story strand
Have a listen to the promo of our new 1-hour radio documentary ‘The Curragh Wrens’, which will broadcast on Kfm Radio Kildare on Thursday October 15th 2020 at 7pm and again on Saturday October 17th 2020 at 11am. This one-hour radio documentary offers a posthumous voice to a group of women who lived as outcasts in 19th century Ireland – the wrens. Focussing on the wrens of the Curragh, the documentary explores how these women came to live on…
Our latest radio documentary ‘Have Tyre, Will Travel: Brian Bell, Ultra Runner’ was broadcast on LMFM Radio at 12noon on Bank Holiday Monday June 4th 2020. Louth man Brian Bell has experienced the world in a way that many of us could never even imagine. From the Amazon jungle to the top of the Himalayas and from the Arctic to the Sahara desert, he has taken part in some of the world’s toughest challenges. Taking up ‘Ultra Running’ a little later in…
Our new radio documentary ‘The Death Lady’s Cottage’, funded by the Broadcasting Authority of Ireland (BAI) with the Television Licence Fee, will broadcast on LMFM at 12noon this Bank Holiday Monday May 4th. It explores the story behind how Elisabeth Kübler-Ross, the renowned Swiss-American psychiatrist and the author of the groundbreaking book On Death and Dying (1969), owned a house in Omeath in Co. Louth from 1990-2004 and did a lot of her writing there. Produced by Chris Nikkel for…
‘Behind the Walls: Connolly Barracks Longford’ is the final one-hour radio documentary from a series of five documentaries broadcast on local radio stations across the country that explore the history of Defence Forces barracks situated within the region. It follows on from the recent documentaries for LMFM Radio in Louth/Meath on Aiken Barracks, KFM Radio in Kildare on The Curragh Camp, C103 Radio in Cork on Collins Barracks Cork and Shannonside Northern Sound on Columb Barracks Mullingar. For the majority…
‘Behind the Walls: Columb Barracks Mullingar’ is the penultimate one-hour radio documentary from a series of five documentaries for local radio stations across the country that explore the history of Defence Forces barracks situated within the region. It follows on from the recent documentaries for LMFM Radio in Louth/Meath on Aiken Barracks, KFM Radio in Kildare on The Curragh Camp and C103 Radio in Cork on Collins Barracks Cork. For the majority of locals living and working in the towns…
Our new radio documentary ‘The Big House: Abandoned Stately Homes of Louth & Meath’, funded by the Broadcasting Authority of Ireland (BAI) with the Television License Fee, will be broadcast on LMFM Radio on St. Patrick’s Day 2020 at 12noon. ‘The Big House’ holds an important place in Ireland’s rich history and heritage, with many dating back to the 17th century. Many abandoned and destroyed ‘Big Houses’ still litter the countryside, full of memories and stories long since forgotten. Left victim to the elements…
‘Turtles & Hares: Team Carrie Marathon Runners’ will screen at the BAM Film Festival in Italy on March 3rd 2020. The Brescia Art Marathon film festival is dedicated to the world of running. The initiative, sponsored by the Brescia Department of Culture, is supported by the Brescia Museums Foundation and consists of three evenings of full immersion in the spectacular world of running! For more info, see http://bresciamarathon.it/bam-film-festival/
Further to its distribution agreement with Ananda Media in France, ‘Turtles & Hares: Team Carrie Marathon Runners’ is now available to watch on Vimeo on Demand & Amazon (UK). Not all heroes wear capes and in David Carrie’s case, his hero’s clothing of choice is a pair of running shorts. Postman by day and Running Guru by night, David Carrie is a former Irish international athlete who has turned the small country town in which he lives into the undisputed…
Our new 1-hour radio documentary ‘Behind the Walls: Collins Barracks Cork’ will broadcast on C103 Cork on Monday October 28th 2019 at 6pm. Funded by the Broadcasting Authority of Ireland (BAI) under the Sound & Vision scheme, this documentary is the third in a series of radio documentaries exploring the history of various army barracks around the country, in association with Óglaigh na hÉireann / Irish Defence Forces It follows ‘Behind the Walls: Aiken Barracks’ and ‘Behind the Walls: The Curragh Camp’ broadcast…
Following on from its recent distribution deal with Ananda Media in France, we’re delighted to announce that ‘Turtles & Hares: Team Carrie Marathon Runners’ has been selected for the SPORT MOVIES & TV 2019 – 37th Milano International FICTS Festival. “SPORT MOVIES & TV 2019 – 37th Milano International FICTS Fest” is a final of 16 Festivals (around the 5 Continents) of the “World FICTS Challenge” World Championship of Television, Cinema, Communication and Sport Culture and will be held in MILANO (ITALY)…
The Ulster County Top Challenge has been selected to be screened at Queensland’s biggest short film festival, the Heart of Gold International Short Film Festival on the first weekend in October. With carefully-crafted short films from around the world that deeply resonate with the viewer, the four-day programme includes up to 30 sessions of shorts from all genres that best capture Heart of Gold’s vision to screen films that are heart-warming, thought-provoking and entertaining. With films from renowned international festivals…