Why is a distinguished and award-winning RTÉ Radio producer making YouTube videos in his spare time? Ronan Kelly’s Ireland is a series of short, idiosyncratic videos tracing the veteran producer’s trips around Ireland by bike, train and bus. It’s a mental health thing as much as anything.”The allure of Ronan Kelly’s Ireland certainly isn’t its production values. She-wolfIn south Sligo Kelly finds limestone caves where a barmaid tells him a high king of Ireland was reared by a she-wolf. Each transition involves assessing what you might lose, but you have to adapt to survive.”The oddness, spontaneity and multifariousness of Ronan Kelly’s Ireland is so refreshing in a media landscape of predictable formats and uniformity.

Source: The Irish Times March 28, 2018 03:56 UTC