Stunning Inch Levels to feature on RTE’s Nationwide

The Donegal County Council led EU Project Trail Gazers and its pilot trail at Inch Levels, will featured on RTE One’s Nationwide tomorrow, Wednesday November 18 at 7pm, as part of a special countywide series of features on Donegal.
By The Newsroom
Published 17th Nov 2020, 11:55 BST

RTÉ One’s Nationwide programme is celebrating Donegal with four full programmes on the county this week.

Presenters Anne Cassin and Bláthnaid Ní Chófaigh have been around the county finding interesting stories and people and filming in beautiful locations for this week’s special programmes and Trail Gazers at Inch Levels is delighted to be chosen as one of the highlighted stories.

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Inch Levels is one of Ireland’s most historic walkways is in the located where Lough Swilly in Donegal once met Lough Foyle in Derry. In the 1800s the marshy lands were transformed into a fertile plain in one of the most ambitious land reclamation projects on these islands. Today the area is home to an array of migrating birds and wild fowl and hundreds of walkers and cyclists are drawn here to enjoy the Inch Level Trail.

The segment which showcases stunning camera shots of Inch and the surrounding countryside, features reporter Mary Harte speaking with Mary Daly from the Trail Gazers Project, Donegal County Council, National Parks Ranger, Martin Toye and local historian and user of the trail, Dessie McCallion.

The interviews will feature information about the renewed interest in Walking and Cycling Trails, the wildfowl which can be seen in the area and the importance of the Trail Gazers project.

Speaking about the feature on RTE, Project Manager Loretta McNicholas said ‘this perfectly captured not only the beauty of Inch but the importance of Trail Gazers to the area and the potential for the local rural economy’.

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