http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m76ighn8mKM

[Top from left: Derek Mooney, Presenter of the Secrets of the Irish Landscape; Barry Donnellan, director of photography and Colm Crowley, head of RTE Cork, and, above, a trailer for The Secrets of The Irish landscape]

Rugged. Distinctive. Dramatic.

Derek Mooney is all these things.

Karen Fitzpatrick writes;

The RTÉ Cork series Secrets of the Irish Landscape, presented by Derek Mooney which was broadcast on RTÉ One last May, has won gold at the final of one of the world’s most prestigious film and television competitions – the New York World’s Best Film and Television Awards 2014, for the best documentary series in science and technology, competing against entries from 36 countries. The three-part series follows in the footsteps of Robert Lloyd Praeger, Ireland’s greatest naturalist and author of the iconic book ‘The Way That I Went’.

Fair play though in fairness.

(RTE)