Mulvihill documentary in new RTE schedule

A documentary looking at the career of the Ashbourne-based former secretary general of the Gaelic Athletic Association, Liam Mulvihill, is part of RTE television's new season, launched last week. The new programme will examine the story of the man who oversaw the development of Croke Park to the impressive stadium it is today, as well as his role in the relaxation of Rule 42 which prevented rugby and soccer be played at Jones's Road. The new schedule sees Ryan Tubridy take over the Late Late Show chair from Pat Kenny, who will present a current affairs programme, 'The Frontline' on Monday nights. Ballivor chef Richard Corrigan is back with a new series of 'Corrigan's City Farm', featuring the allotment volunteers in Dublin, while Niall Mullen from Oldcastle will be back with George Stacpoole in 'The Dealers', looking at buying and selling antiques. Life in a Meath school will be featured in 'The School', a series of three 40-minute 'fly-on-the-wall' documentary, while actor Simon Delany discovers he has some Meath roots in 'Who Do You Think You Are?' Delany also stars in 'Val Falvey TD', a new six-part comedy with Ardal O'Hanlon in the lead role in the series written by Arthur Matthews and Paul Woodfull. Singer Wallis Bird, who grew up in Robinstown, will join The Sawdoctors and Mark Greaney of JJ72 in 'Band from School', which takes bands and musicians back to revisit the schools they attended as children. In RTE Factual, a new two-part series, 'Killers', profiles two of the most infamous murder cases of recent times, the killing of Farah Swaleh Noor by the Mulhall sisters, and the murder of Rachel O'Reilly by her husband, Joe. 'The Way We Worked' is a six-part series looking at how Irish attitudes to the land have changed radically over the last fifty years. RTE Sport will present a new documentary on the life of the late racehorse trainer, Vincent O'Brien, and will also cover Bernard Dunne's WBA Super-Bantamweight World Title defence against Poonsawat Kratingdaenggym in The 02 on 26th September. Meanwhile, 'O'Gorman' on Sunday 6th September, finds Paddy O'Gorman and his microphone in St Mary's Cemetery, Navan. Cemetery Sundays are now a big family reunion for all the relatives and children of those passed away. These are not people mourning; these are people celebrating the lives of their lost loved ones. Emigrants return and families get dressed up to visit the blessing of the graves and every graveside has a poignant story, according to O'Gorman. It airs at 7.30pm on Sunday 6th September.