Great British Railway Journeys Goes to Ireland
Ballina to Westport
Season 8 Episode 15 of 15
On the last leg of Michael Portillo's long journey from Wexford to Westport, a fashionable Victorian seaweed bath is followed by a steamy scene in Ballina. On tenterhooks in Foxford, Michael discovers the visionary charity of an entrepreneurial nun, learns of a double tragedy at Clew Bay and begins a pilgrimage to the summit of Croagh Patrick, Ireland's holy mountain
Great British Railway Journeys Goes to Ireland airs on U&Yesterday +1 at 8:10 AM, Friday 27 December. (Subtitles.)
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Michael Portillo
Presenter
Alison Kreps
Series Producer
John Comerford
Executive Producer