 around the northwest now the second series of moving west is on the wednesday nights on tg car and it puts a spotlight on counties along the west coast kerry gallway mayo slago and donnie gall and there's also a special episode on the islands and it's about the lives of people or families who have moved or are in the process of moving to a new home along the atlantic coast it's presented by mary kennedy the nicest woman on tv and mary are you are mary in fairness is there anything that annoys you ever ever ever oh you'd want to see me now i'm like a whirling dervish okay well i'll tell you you're persona on the tv anyhow if there's anything that does annoy you from time to time you hide it well that's all i'll say well i have to say i i love what i do and i loved all of the the works that i did on nationwide and other programs on rte but i can't believe how lucky i am to have been given this program to present like last summer and this summer we recorded series one and series two and everybody seems to to to take something from it john and i have to say i love first of all i love showcasing ireland and my goodness you've got a fabulous place up there johnny gall and we were blessed with the weather both times actually when we went to do the west coast of johnny gall and also when we went back to do our island half our island program on aron moore but it's just lovely to meet the people and people are so so welcoming but you've got good stories to tell for the most part that's the great thing about it it's it's it's nice experiences it's people who've made the move and and it's it's worked out for them absolutely well for instance in our johnny gall program which is going out on wednesday night um there is well people who are fans of fair city will recognize caroline harvey um and she played um farah felon in the series and then when her contract ended she went up to um bundoren and took lessons to be a surface instructor a surfing instructor and she's settled there now with her partner she she's she's she's very she's about to give birth in the in the um the program but uh just to let everybody know that since then she had a lovely little girl called maggie so she's two children very set with scenes that it's a place to bring up her children and there's another um there's also two people from uh kahlo gala horde who is originally from gertlark and um he was living in dublin and has moved back with his wife and baby and also um we have uh shanaid maggie who was in sydney in australia and she's back now and living in gredore and doing the same job she was doing john but doing it from the the the hobs you know the the which they're fab they make they are really um game changers when it comes to people being able to do their work and live and another family then who moved up from valley farmers which is near where i'm from in dublin myself and clondoken and they're living in brinlac and he has um a gorgeous coppercraft actually he was in showcase there last weekend in dublin so things are going very well for them and i also feel that those stories if people are kind of watching um and thinking about it uh they're they're they're positive you know messages that go out and these are people who've made a choice about work life balance and i think a lot of us are thinking those ways after um the pandemic well it's not just only go all the features obviously in the program and from your experience of the last series and this one what what are the big things that make make a difference what what is it that that they're they're happiest about overall well i think as i just said i think having um very good broadband has to be a factor it has to you have to have that so they people tend to settle in places like that but there are holds all over the west coast and the service is excellent and the other thing um the the factor that makes a huge difference for a lot of people is family um like uh coho came back well they they found he found the city a little bit and just kind of overwhelming and is now living back where he's from in fact you know living next door to where he grew up and working in london national park so it's about lifestyle um john and uh and it's just lovely it's lovely to see people who are they're not kind of rushing around and chasing their tails the whole time and they open their doors and they're looking at gorgeous landscapes and seascapes there's a sense of community i i went up to film there and i was staying in the waterfront hotel and the the i arrived very late the night i was coming and the night porter there was helping me to park he says you've got a rattle in your in your engine and he said now tomorrow morning i get on to martin i don't know what martin's second name was but martin came took my car fixed it and brought it back and he wouldn't take anyone now that's the kind of people that you meet when you go down the country or up to done you go anywhere along the west coast the thing is if you weren't so nice on the tv you see martin making it on that i just find this lovely but i i really um it's no chore to me done because i i really i relish it and we've a lovely team as well and it's a small team it's a small independent company based in kildare called on darah tv and media and you know everybody is nice people are nice to us and and we're nice to them but um is it be a shame not to be yeah yes absolutely and i think you know i mentioned earlier that it does help that that people are are so positive because their experiences have been so good and whether it's moving from east to west or moving from another part of the world and and coming here to dunny gall or as you said coming back to dunny gall because if you're if you're born and raised here or if you're born and raised in the country you know there's there's always a there's always a bit of calling it's a bit different if you're and and i suppose it's it's enlightening to see people moving from a city maybe a born and raised in the city and they decide to take the leap and they they move up to dunny gall and it's a more rural setting and it works for them yeah well that's the case really i suppose with neil and jackie ferry the the couple from valley farmers who moved up with their three daughters and um now uh neil's dad was from brunelack i'm actually we got a chance to to chat with neil and um or sorry neil's dad um because he was there as well but uh neil used to spend his summer holidays there as a boy and they went up and said they give it a try they tried it for three months and then um came back uh to doblin and said no definitely for for the sake of the girls and for our uh life really this is where we would like to be we'd like to move to dunny gall now i that takes courage it really does um and i mean you mentioned people that are born there i'm a city person and people often ask me well would you do it and um i mean also my sister lives on the aron islands and and i wouldn't because my my my family is all around me here so i do think there's a pull like with cahill and uh cahill and his family moving back to gert de herc um it's nice it's nice and and i think um as a as a people um we family is important to us and i hate us to lose that so um it's it's very um uplifting to be able to tell the stories of people who for who who who maybe just make the move for the sake of family for the sake of the the quality of life that they want their children to have like caroline um harvey who moved to bundoren and has two little children and she feels that the the openness and the freedom of life in dunny gall is what she would like for those two little ones um and it it's that's that's her motivating factor and and um irish people it's it's about the families and and doing the best for them and it's lovely that that's now possible because of um all of the facilities that are there and i'm fair play to tg cahar for for showcasing them they're you know two years in a row and who's to say there could be another one yeah well fingers crossed absolutely i'm sure there's plenty of other experience other examples out there there's such interesting stories they're so different like our kerry program last week uh was different again totally different um stories but like a um a woman with a a native american background living in dingle and run the pub with her her husband and children from ukraine saki and kaha sivine we have different stories and different um highlights in in in every program and it's a gorgeous way to uh to see the the lovely parts of ireland's that we have well to see the experience another reason to be proud of being irish absolutely absolutely well to see the experiences of some people who have made the move to dunny gall week and check it out to this wednesday it's moving west on tg cahar at half past eight mary kennedy thank you very much for joining us not at all you're very welcome good to be with margot