Now it's Farmer Dick

Celebrity chef, battery chicken basher and yachtsman extraordinaire Richard Corrigan gets further exposure on our TV screens.

RTE1 is is launching its new 12-part TV series, Corrigan’s City Farm at 8:30 pm tonight. The 25-minute programme will run every Tuesday from 21 April to 26 May, with a second set of installments starting in September.*

Good news is that GM gets an airing. Series producer, Peter Mulryan, has apparently ordered two ‘Keep Ireland GMO-free’ signs for the farm gates and confirms that Corrigan will raise the GM issue
in programme 3 and “build it to a climax” in programme 6 on 26 May.

Phew! Heady stuff! Will Richard’s climaxing on telly spell doom for the beleaguered broadcasting behemoth as the Montrose post room is submerged under a welter of protest mail from matrons in Monaghan, Macroom and Maghera, not to mention the sinister pro-GM lobby?

Or will the upwardly mobile Cap’n Dick be fast-tracked to The Big Fluffy Chair in The Late, Late studio?

Forkncork will be the first to know.

* Clodagh McKenna makes a cameo appearance as a milkmaid. Neven Maguire plays the village bobby. Gordon Ramsay stars as evil Squire Michelin. Guest appearances by Hugh Grant, Colin Firth and Julie Walters will make the prog a sure-fire success (only joking)