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Sat 10 Oct 2009Fighting in the streets
TV REVIEW:Ireland’s Crime Capitals: Gangland LimerickTV3, Thursday; Restaurant in Your HomeBBC2, Monday; Cogar: Molly Keane – Faobhar ar a GuthTG4, Sunday; The Republic of TellyRTÉ2, Monday
Donal MacIntyre, the rugged face of investigative journalism, is at the helm of TV3’s new series, Ireland’s Crime Capitals, which kicked off this week with a programme on gangland Limerick. MacIntyre’s pedigree as an undercover reporter lends the series a kind of sexed-up gravitas, and, having recently dispensed with his sequin-covered Lurex ice suits (he was runner-up in the 2009 series of Dancing on Ice) and re-grown his five o’clock shadow, he certainly looks the man for the occasion.
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