Focus On Galway Hooker Sailors In New Four-Part TG4 Documentary Series ‘Bádóirí’

9th January 2019

Galway Hookers racing off Connemara as seen on TG4’s Bádóirí

#OnTV - A new four-part documentary series on the people of Ireland’s west who keep the Galway Hooker sailing tradition alive behind tomorrow night (Thursday 10 January) at 8pm on TG4.

Bádóirí provides an insight into seven Connemara families, part of one of the few indigenous communities of sailors left in Europe, as they compete to be champions of the Galway Hooker Association Racing League.

The first of four episodes screens tomorrow at 8pm and will be available to stream for viewers in Ireland on the TG4 Player.

Published in Galway Hookers, Historic Boats, Galway Harbour, Maritime TV

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