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THE REMOTE IS our weekly look at the upcoming TV listings. What With Everything, people are at home a bit more than usual these days so we’ve got you covered whether you want a solo TV night or one for all the family.
We’ll focus mainly on free-to-air TV and freely available streaming services – with the occasional recommendation from subscription services too.
Scéalta Grá na hÉireann is a new six-part series that looks at some of the iconic romantic relationships throughout Ireland’s history.
The first episode looks at the famous love triangle involving Michael Collins, Kitty Kiernan and Collins’ friend and fellow revolutionary Harry Boland.
Later in the series we’ll learn about the stormy passion of the ‘Pirate Queen’ Grace O’Malley and Oscar Wilde’s scandalous affair with Lord Alfred Douglas.
The show features colourised images from the same people that made the best-selling book from Christmas just past Old Ireland in Colour.
When’s it on? Tomorrow at 8.30pm on TG4
A new ITV true crime drama from the makers of Line of Duty and Bodyguard is starting this week. The Pembrokeshire Murders is a three-part mini-series about the hunt for Welsh serial killer John Cooper.
It’s based on the book by Detective Superintendent Steve Wilkins, who in 2006 decided to reopen two unsolved 1980s murder cases linked with a string of burglaries.
The show is generating a lot of hype so it’s probably a one to to set the series link for.
When’s it on? Thursday at 9pm on Virgin Media One
The third season of the fantasy drama series American Gods is begins on Amazon Prime this week.
Based on the book of the same name by British author Neil Garman, the plot brings strands of mythology into a modern-day setting.
The show has been praised for its visual style and is probably one for fantasy fans to check out.
When’s it on? Streaming now on Amazon Prime
Perhaps one of the most successful and consistent TV shows of recent years has been Grand Designs. In fact, it’s not even that recent seeing as the first episode of the uber-successful series aired way back in April 1999.
The simple format, in which Kevin McCloud follows the travails of ambitious home-building projects, is essentially property porn with a side of time-lapse.
The show has prompted several spin-offs but series 20 of the original started last week and continues.
When’s it on? Tomorrow at 9pm on Channel 4.
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More natural forests are needed
Instead of plastic ones.
Are they talking about forests or the sterile non-native conifer plantations which blight our landscape and threaten the survival of species such as Hen Harrier? Judging the reasoning behind the groups in question I’m reckoning they’re talking about the plantations rather than native or semi-natural woodlands rich in biodiversity.
Special branch should look into this.
i think they are on leave at the moment
Its not the number of trees being planted but how bio diverse the forests are. Acres of conifer plantations do more environmental harm than good
especially to rivers, the massive amounts of sulfer put in the soil runs off and drops the Ph of rivers ruining spawning grounds
Here we go, a report to soften us up for the privitisation of Coillte, the largest single landowner in the State
Sounds about right.
That’s a great pic of lough Tay in county Wicklow. A member of the Guinness family has a wonderful house down there, although he may have passed away. I have cycled and hiked over these Wicklow mountains and really feel that they should be covered in forests. This land was covered at one time with oak and other trees. The govt needs to get the finger out and start to increase Irish woodlands. If you leave the land alone the trees will come back naturally.
Jim Jameson
Why would you need to be softened up for a Government sale of the collet harvesting rights? Have you seen the appalling Annual Reports over the last few years?
In 2011 they had sales of 259 m and only managed a profit of 19.9m and this is with free land a story wen a massive one million acres.
Worse than this their pension fund has a shortfall of nearly a hundred million Euro. How do you manage that trick with just one thousand employees? The answer is simple ……..make it a publicly owned enterprise and they’ll just milk it for all it’s worth.
See the harvesting rights for up to two billion and let someone else do the real job of managing the business as that clearly hasn’t been done for some time.
We get to keep the land. We get money for new investment in the economy and the workers get their pension funds fixed.
With proper management exports will increase and the State will accrue further profit taxes.
Simple.
….sell the harvesting rights….. Mea culpa
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