Now in its 3rd Series on TG4, “Mí na Meala” features Irish Married Couples who met in the 50’s, 60’s, 70’s and the 80’s reminiscing on their courtship, their wedding and their honeymoon .. The series gently touches on travel, changing times, the evolution of marriage and relationship, changing cultures, history, gentle humour and aims to entertain a broad, prime time audience of all ages.

It is a nostalgic trip down memory lane for the couples but is also a opportunity for us to look at the way marriage, the vows and the build up to marriage has changed, how the preparation has changed, how prices have changed, how choice has changed … Not alone are we on a journey back with the couples but also we cleverly examine the changes that have taken place over time for the Couples and Marriage in general ..

Part One features the initial contact with the couple as they take us through their first meeting, their courtship and their marriage day, using photos, video footage and other memorabilia blended with time appropriate archive. Part Two sees us taking the couple on a visit back to where they had their honeymoon, allowing them to recall special places or moments from that time and examining changes which have happened in the meantime.

Mí na Meala – Series 1

Eibhlín & Colm O Torna

A chance meeting in London almost 50 years ago marked the beginning of Eibhlín and Colm Ó Torna’s life together. Returning to their honeymoon hideaway in Glengarriff, Co.Cork, they relive the memories and emotions of their first blissful days together as Mr. and Mrs. Thunder and ask themselves ….. Was it all worth it ?

Helmi & Seamas Saidléar

From two very different backgrounds, who would have thought that a young Gaeilgeoir from Dublin would marry an adopted German girl in Dublin in 1967? But this is what happened to Helmi and Seamas Saidléar. Returning to the scene of their honeymoon in Rome 40 years ago and reminiscing on those joyous days, they take a closer look at each other and examine how their love has grown, what they have achieved and what the future holds …

Tomás O Ceillleachair & Áine Mulqueen

When Tomás was a young man, listening to records of Ireland’s Queen of Song, Anne Mulqueen, little did he know he’d one day be walking the young starlet down the aisle! But that’s just what happened. Now 38 years later the couple retrace their steps as they embark once again on the Irish honeymoon that began their life together…

Colm agus Bríd Ní Mhéalóid

Colm agus Bríd Ní Mhéalóid – When Colm O Mealoid moved from Gaeltacht Connemara to Rath Cairn as a young boy he was afraid he’d never find a girl who’d understand his Irish. As it turned out the Rath Cairn girls were well able for him and it was there that he first laid eyes on his future wife, Brid. Now, 40 years on, the happy couple set sail once again as they relive their glamorous Mediterranean cruise honeymoon and revisit their favourite destinations on the Portuguese coastline. Older, wiser, but forever young at heart, Brid and Colm cast an eye back on those happy times and ask themselves if they chose the right mate all those years ago!

Síle agus Pádraig Mac Tiarnáin

When Pat and Síle shared their first dance in Belfast in the early sixties little did they realize they were on opposite sides of the religious divide.

But what would that matter to a young couple in love. Married in 1968, we follow them now as they retrace their honeymoon journey across the West Coast of Ireland. Old memories reawaken, new emotions come to the fore and husband and wife cast an eye on the future ….

Annette agus Benny McArdle

When Benny and Annette McArdle first met at St. Patrick’s teaching college in Dublin, it was the beginning of a new life together. Married in 1981, the couple returns today to the site of their honeymoon on Italy’s glorious Amalfi coast, revisiting Pompeii, Mount

Vesuvius and the island of Capri. “Have things changed?” they ask themselves, as they look back on their life together as husband and wife.