The Local Eye

In this first episode we are introduced to the editors, reporters, production and other staff of: The Mayo News has just been nominated for European Local Newspaper of the Year. Managing editor Neill O’Neill and designer Kevin Loftus prepare their presentation for the awards ceremony in Vienna. Do they have what it takes to impress newspaper editors from all over Europe? But before they go, Neill clashes with Kevin over a controversial photo spread. The Munster Express has been in the Walsh family for three generations, current editor Kieran Walsh prides himself on the paper’s values, integrity and accuracy but what will be proof reader Nicola Hayles’ reaction be when she returns from holiday to find spelling mistakes in the paper? Meanwhile in Ennis in the offices of The Clare Champion, sports journalist Peter O’Connell receives an unexpected phone call. After an infamous clash with Clare hurling manager Davy Fitzgerald, he gets a chance to interview the manager for the first time in 12 months.

In episode two of The Local Eye, we go on the hunt for Hollywood Royalty with the Munster Express, look at the impact of the Wild Atlantic Way with the Mayo News and meet Clare Champion columnist Daisy the Dog!

Clare Champion contributor Eddie Lenihan meets a prize-winning bull with a questionable past, while 99-year-old Maureen delivers her latest poem to editor Austin Hobbs.

The Lisdoonvarna Matchmaking Festival, advertising in the Internet age and a daffodil ranch all feature as The Local Eye continues to bring to you behind the scenes at some of the country's hardest working regional newspapers.

One of Ireland's historic houses in jeopardy from NAMA, a local initiative to help depressed taxi drivers and an unexpected connection to the Berkeley tragedy feature as The Local Eye continues.

In the final episode of The Local Eye, we meet a formerly unemployed carpenter who found a job through his local notes section and see The Mayo News embracing the future with a special video.