TV show to look at bounty washed up on Cork island

For centuries, ships have been wrecked off the treacherous Cork coast, and in bygone days, the locals would salvage items of value that washed up on land for use in their community.

In Nationwide on RTÉ1 on Wednesday at 7pm, reporter Seán Mac an Tsíthigh visits Cape Clear to meet an islander who has kept items of value that have been washed ashore over the course of the last century.

Who would have thought that salvage from doomed vessels would still be used well over 100 years later?

Also in the programme, we learn about a unique collaboration between a choir and a well-known Irish singer.

Mike Hanrahan, from Ennis, performed with much-loved band Stockton’s Wing for more than 30 years, and his passion for music took an unexpected turn when dementia, a condition that affects the memory of so many people, touched his family.

He decided to use music to help him understand, connect and support those with the condition and teamed up with The Forget Me Nots choir.

In the episode of Nationwide on Friday on RTÉ1 at 7pm, presenter Anne Cassin learns about the fascinating story of Grangegorman in Dublin.

For hundreds of years, it was closed off to the local community behind high walls, and Anne learns about its difficult past, and explores the new dynamic and open urban quarter that it has become.

Over the course of 250 years, Grangegorman has been the site of a workhouse, a hospital and a prison.

It is now open to the city as a health and education campus, and the Grangegorman Histories Project is sharing a complex story that reveals so much about our country’s hidden past.