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Our Summer has been dominated by sports and outstanding Irish people. We’ve been producing the radio feature series Winning Women on the Irish women athletes in the Olympics for Newstalk and we’re just about close the long edit on our TV documentary “Beyond Limits’ on the elite athletes heading to the Paralympic Games at London 2012. One of the really delights of our work is being able to move from one genre of story-telling to another. This year we’ve made the award winning history series for RTE Radio ‘Death of an Empire’ as well as the current affairs “Media Show’ and we’re now working on a radio documentary on Ireland’s newest opera company Wide Open Opera. It certainly keeps our minds busy getting to know and understand such diverse topics and subjects. Winning Women gave us the pleasure of meeting women like American Tori Pena who is Ireland’s first woman pole vaulter. Tori comes from Irish-Mexican descent and get to represent Ireland because her granny is from Ireland. We met at Morton Stadium in early July when she defended her national title and she’s someone Irish audiences will love getting to know and to watch during the Olympic Games. We were also also filming that day with sprinter Jason Smyth, who has less than 10% vision and is double gold medallist in the last Paralympic Games. Jason was trying at that Morton athletics competition to become the first Irish athlete to compete in both the Olympics and Paralympics. Sadly he narrowly missed the qualification time and came second to Paul Hession the Irish sprinter who will represent Ireland in the Olympics. Jason, who comes from Co Derry, is a stunning athlete. One of the fastest men in the world and second only to Paul in Ireland’s history as as a sprinter.
Beyond Limits has been an incredible journey. Its a documentary for Setanta Ireland supported, like Winning Women, by the BAI Sound & Vision Scheme, and goes out August 27th just days before the games start. It features world champion hand cyclist Mark Rohan, tandem cyclist Catherine Walsh, teenager champion swimmer Darragh McDonald, runners Michael McKillop and Jason Smyth as well as equestrian competitor Helen Kearney.
have a look at the promo for the documentary and let us know what you think. We’ll be posting more details in the news columns of our web site as August progresses.

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