Documentaries on KCLR

Part 4 of 4.

Former Kilkenny captain and five-time All-Ireland senior hurling winner with the Cats, Michael Fennelly takes a walk back through one of the biggest games in Kilkenny's coloured hurling h…

Part 3 of 4.

Former Kilkenny captain and five-time All-Ireland senior hurling winner with the Cats, Michael Fennelly takes a walk back through one of the biggest game in Kilkenny's coloured hurling hi…

Part 2 of 4.

Former Kilkenny captain and five-time All-Ireland senior hurling winner with the Cats, Michael Fennelly takes a walk back through one of the biggest games in Kilkenny's coloured hurling h…

There's no doubt about it, trees give us many things and over the course of this programme series we have heard about many of these benefits.  But probably one of the nicest things about trees is how…

We all love nature but sometimes we don't consider just how much we are damaging it through our food and economic systems.  In this programme Maura Brennan who runs the Acorn Project in Kilkenny is t…

Engineered wood, is made, in the case of Orientated Strand Board, by taking the thinnings from softwood conifer plantations and putting it through a process whereby it is transformed into board that …

First to the annual RDS Forest and Woodland Awards which Andrew O'Carroll won in 2018 in the Teagasc Farm Forestry Award category.  One of the secrets to his success, he believes, is that he planted …

The JFK Arboretum was conceived as a memorial to honour American President John F Kennedy following his assassination in 1963.  The site at New Ross Co Wexford was picked due to it's proximity to his…

The Bunburys have lived at Lisnavagh House for over 300 years.  Their home sits on 600 acres of which 200 acres is woodland, mainly native hardwoods.  

Over the years storms have taken down some of th…

Over the years humans observed and studied trees and this research continues in Teagasc where scientists explore the different aspects of trees to maximise their potential in relation to timber and b…

Agroforestry seems to be the answer to farmers worries in relation to trees and taking land out of use for 50 or 60 years - which is the case under the traditional grant aided forestry scheme.  With …

People are buying their Christmas Trees earlier than before.  That's according to Michael O'Gorman of Celtic Christmas Trees who has been working hard the past month harvesting, packing, delivering a…

Ballintemple Tree Nursery is situated just outside Ardattin Co Carlow and it is here that Coillte process their seeds and rear trees from seed for planting out into the forest,

In this programme we vi…

In this programme we meet Mick Power, National Estates Manager with Coillte with responsibility of biotic risk.  We meet in the beautiful Castlemorris Woods in Co Kilkenny where a mixture of lots of …

Oak accounts for only 2.7% of our Irish forests which is low compared to Sitka Spruce which accounts for 51.1% of the trees in Ireland.  In this programme we meet farmer Ger Daly who, in 1999 planted…

Trees and water courses have evolved together over thousands of years to their mutual benefit.  As humans, we benefit from trees near water courses because they hold the rainwater and have a huge rol…

This programme series 'Trees: From Seed to Sawdust' looks at the value of trees, not just from an economic perspective but also in relation to their ability to store carbon.  This is becoming more an…