Station:
TG4 (IE)
Status:
Running
Start:
2025-03-20
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There are over 160,000 people employed in the construction industry in Ireland. These people build, renovate and reimagine our countryside and our towns.Welcome to ‘Na Builders' an original, home-grown series for TG4 that shines the spotlight on construction workers from across the country as they battle the elements - and occasionally each other - to get the job done.We'll be spending time with builders of all shapes and sizes, in rural and urbans settings; we'll be looking at what they are building and who they are building for and getting a real sense of where we are in building Ireland these days From bricklayers to electricians, plumbers to roofers, plasterers to carpenters these hard- working men and women are part of our everyday lives in Ireland. These are their stories.
There is no Next Episode of Na Builders planned.
S1E1 - Episode 1
In this first episode of Na Builders, we head to Carna in Conamara where Páraic Ó Cualáin of Jackie Folan Limited and his team are getting ready for the day ahead. In Donaghmede, Townmore have a large apartment development underway while down in the sunny Southeast, in Ring, Co. Waterford local builder Tom Breathnach is busy working on a two-story self-build. Meanwhile in Laois, Dave Fingleton has taken on a unique project in the Slieve Bloom Mountains building an extension onto a preexisting cottage while in Monaghan we meet BuildWright who have been supplying concrete products for 70 years across Ireland and the UK. In Ballyvourney, Freddie Ó Loingsigh is putting the finishing touches to the local school hall. Coolsivna Construction Ltd are busy developing a new housing estate for Westmeath County Council and in Portmarnock, Phil Loughran, who started his career as a carpenter, is today building luxury homes and he shows us his latest project.
Air Date: 20 Mar 2025 16:30 (CDT)