{"id":51992,"date":"2025-09-09T02:16:11","date_gmt":"2025-09-09T02:16:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/51992\/"},"modified":"2025-09-09T02:16:11","modified_gmt":"2025-09-09T02:16:11","slug":"mahons-way-discovers-stumpys-brae-and-lifford-gaol-this-sunday-on-utv","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/51992\/","title":{"rendered":"Mahon’s Way discovers ‘Stumpy’s Brae’ and Lifford Gaol this Sunday on UTV"},"content":{"rendered":"

TV personality Joe Mahon is back on his travels and this Sunday his brilliant UTV show comes from Lifford.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Mahon\u2019s Way returned recently for a brand-new series of 10 episodes in which Joe Mahon travels the length and breadth of Ulster, exploring the rich veins of heritage, history and culture which make our province unique.<\/p>\n

Joe Mahon\u2019s ongoing journey, celebrating both the iconic and the unfamiliar aspects of its landscapes, towns and villages, remains enduringly popular with audiences.<\/p>\n

As ever, Joe promises to leave no stone unturned in his quest for the quirky, the unusual and the \u201clesser spotted\u201d stories that have become the hallmark of \u201cMahon\u2019s Way\u201d.<\/p>\n

\u201cPeople sometimes suggest that I must have been everywhere by now, \u201csays Joe, \u201cbut I can honestly state, hand on heart, that I\u2019ve set foot in many places in this series that I\u2019ve never been in before. I may have driven past them, on the road to somewhere else, but I\u2019ve never spent time in the dungeons of Lifford gaol or confronted the Drumlin Giants of Rossmore Forest Park in Co. Monaghan, amongst other experiences. These have all been new adventures for me and I look forward to sharing them with our viewers.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Another hallmark of the style of Mahon\u2019s Way is the relaxed and informal tone of Mahon\u2019s interaction with the many contributors his production team manage to recruit for the series.<\/p>\n

That natural feel, the humorous tone and the abundance of \u201ccraic\u201d, may often tend to disguise the fact that these are programmes of real substance.<\/p>\n

This coming Sunday, 14th September at 5.55 pm, Mahon\u2019s Way travels to Lifford.<\/p>\n

Joe gets a new take on the origins of the Legend of Stumpy\u2019s Brae, the famous gothic poem by Cecil Frances Alexander, he investigates the story of the \u201cThree Enemies\u201d at the confluence of the Mourne and the Finn which go on to form the River Foyle, and he \u201cdoes time\u201d in Lifford Gaol, in the bowels of Lifford Old Courthouse.<\/p>\n

\u201cI thought I knew Lifford pretty well, having driven through and past it hundreds of times, but spending time talking to people who live and work there, and to historians who have studied its fascinating history over the millennia, was quite a revelation.\u201d<\/p>\n

Mahon\u2019s Way discovers \u2018Stumpy\u2019s Brae\u2019 and Lifford Gaol this Sunday on UTV was last modified: September 8th, 2025 by Staff Writer<\/p>\n

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