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Ear to the Ground
Ear to the Ground is a weekly television programme broadcast on Ireland's RTÉ One on Thursday evenings at 20:30. It consists of reports about rural, countryside and environmental issues. Currently in its sixteenth season, it is produced by Independent Pictures and presented by Ella McSweeney, Darragh McCullough and Helen Carroll. Previous presenters include Maeve Dineen, who left after the fifteenth season and the long-running Mairead McGuinness, who later became a Member of the European Parliament for Fine Gael. The show is repeated on
in early September 1944, the airfield was put back into operational service by the United States Army Air Forces IX Engineer Command 926th Engineering Aviation Regiment. On 9 September the combat engineers arrived to lay down a temporary airfield to support the ground forces in their advance against enemy forces.
The 926th EAR laid down a 5000' grass runway aligned roughly east–west (08/26), along with a small support area.
The 7th Field Hospital was stationed here on 13 Sep 1944, where C-47 transports of the IX Tactical