Omagh, Ballymena and Fermanagh
How a church steeple inspires a young Omagh artist, the City of the Seven Towers tour, and how Fermanagh's finest attractions are free all this weekend.
Anne Marie McAleese with the people, places and stories that make Northern Ireland unique. How one young artist takes his inspiration from a steeple overlooking Omagh, a historical tour of the City of the Seven Towers in Ballymena and this weekend Discover Fermanagh are opening the county's finest attractions for free.
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'When you're out there it just flows through you'
Duration: 06:38
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'It gives a new perspective on the whole town'
Duration: 00:48
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The City of the Seven Towers
Duration: 01:33
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'I've loved it from the first lesson'
Duration: 00:44
The City of the Seven Towers
Anne Marie meets Ballymena tour guide Martin McAuley for an historical lesson of the town and the origin of the Adair鈥檚. Plus why the City of the Seven Towers is really the Three and a Half Tower Town Tour.聽
Crozier Memorial Pipe Band
The Spire That Inspires
Artist Niall Taggart gets his inspiration from the spire of the Sacred Heart Church in Omagh. It's there that he celebrates his home town in his Lowry-esque paintings. Declan Forde went to the church to meet the Lough Muck painter.
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- Sat 3 Mar 2018 08:05麻豆社 Radio Ulster & 麻豆社 Radio Foyle