Motive

Transmission dates for Motive Television’s new series No Place like Home have just been confirmed. This multi-cultural travel series will begin in a high profile Sunday evening slot on January 8th at 7.30pm.

No Place like Home is presented by newcomer Bob Kelly and combines the exotic and the mundane, the local and the foreign. Bob meets the new Irish, the recent immigrants to this country, and goes to their homeland to discover why and what they have left behind. He experiences what it is like to be a foreigner in a strange land armed with a video camera and their family’s address. He spends three days walking in their shoes to discover what is the meaning of home.

Countries visited include the plains of Mongolia, the city streets of Russia and the markets and mountains of Morocco. Back in Ireland the participants work in hospitals, factories, and offices all over the country. They tell us why they came here and why they do, or don’t feel homesick for the place they left behind.

The annual Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year competition reached a climax last night in a glittering Awards ceremony in the City West Hotel. The successes of twenty four of Ireland’s business achievers was acclaimed in front of one thousand guests at the venue and a quarter of a million RTE ONE viewers in armchairs the length and breadth of the country.

Aidan Heavey, founder and chief executive of Tullow Oil, was crowned international entrepreneur as well as taking the overall Ernst and Young Entrepreneur of the Year award.

Three other entrepreneurs also received awards at the ceremony. Michael Carey of Jacob Fruitfield Food Group took the industry category, Jerry Kennelly of Stockbyte won the emerging category and John O'Shea of GOAL was Social Entrepreneur of the Year.

The awards programme followed three documentaries screened on RTE 1 over the previous weeks featuring all the nominees as well as previous winners. The ceremony was presented by Shane Kenny and Anne Cassin and produced by Motive Television.

Motive Television Ltd has won the tender to produce a new live Gaelic Games series. RTE recently advertised an open tender to produce a live Gaelic Games series on Sunday mornings.

The series will be series produced by Trisha Canning, who produced the long running Breaking Ball magazine programme, and produced by Cormac Hargaden, director/producer of The Rod Squad, Breaking Ball, Marooned. The series will be presented by Mairead ní Ghormáin (BBX, Ceol Tíre) and, new to television, Ger Gilroy (Newstalk’s Off the Ball).

Cormac Hargaden, the Head of Television said: "We are delighted to have won this tender in the face of intense competition from Ireland's leading independent producers. It is an opportunity for the company to consolidate our reputation as leading suppliers in the sports genre."