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Paul Moore meets local rail enthusiasts in Strabane, including lead builder Bill Dimmick. The local Model Railway听Club have just finished recreating the old Donegal / Strabane junction to an incredible degree of detail.听

Actor, singer, poet听- Richard Hayward is听 remembered this week 50 years after his death.听

Hayward appeared in films such as The Luck of the Irish (1935) and A Night to Remember (1958). His best known songs were 'The Humour is on Me Now' used in The Quiet Man, and 'Six Miles from Bangor to Donaghadee'. Journalist and author Paul Clements is about to give a talk about his life, ahead of it he spoke to Anne Marie.....

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Picture courtesy of Ulster Folk and Transport Museum

There's a tree in Armagh that's 150 years old - and still grows great apples - for a family that has had orchards in the County since 1855. The MacNeices have been pressing apples for the last 45 years - they'll be in their element today at Ardress House, at Annaghmore,听because it's Apple Press Day there - Greg MacNeice is head of pressing.

By Bessy Bell mountain in听County Tyrone, by听the rolling parkland of Barons Court (the ancestral estate of the Duke of Abercorn) they've been golfing听for 100 years at Newtownstewart Golf Club. On a busy competition day, from just beside the first tee, Captain John Colhoun, told听Anne Marie听how golf arrived in Newtownstewart.听

Photo (Jimmy on left, John on right )

Jimmy Mackin who helped compile book and Newtownstewart Captain John Colhoun