Fr Mortimor O’ Connor Champion of The People Danny Houlihan’s Irish Experience

In this episode which is a first in the series Danny Houlihan deals with historic individuals along the Wild Atlantic Way. In this episode Danny covers a brief history of a local Priest and Champion of the People the late Fr Mortimer O' Connor Parish Priest of Ballybunion who lived in the area in the  1870s.

This crusading Priest took on the power the money and the might of the Landlords to secure the small tenants their holdings and public rights in the area of Ballyeagh and Ballybunion and further afield.

In this episode Danny Houlihan has consulted old faded newspapers of the day old shop records and information both oral handed down and written by local people and historian's now gone to highlight a period and people now long and since forgotten consigned to a closed book. This episode is again but taste of a period in Irish History now long gone.