After a hugely successful run in Series 1 'Hector Goes' returns to RTE 1 with a new 4 part series in March 2014. Once again we'll get the orange combi van back on the road and Hector will hit the high roads and the low roads, the streets and the laneways as he discovers and explores down some of the quirkier side roads of Irish life. From Fishing to the GAA, from Courting to Digging for what lies beneath the ground, Hector in his own unique style allows himself to become "immersed" in these various Irish worlds.

TX 1. Monday 3rd March @2135 - Hector Goes Fishing
We're an island race with a very strange attitude to the men and women who fish our waters. They put food on our tables, sure they do, and they sometimes die doing it but really, if we're honest about it, do we give a flying fish who lands the bloody things? Hector goes to sea, talks quotas and even engages with the Spanish trawlers on his seafaring journey.

TX 2. Monday 10th March @2135 - Hector goes Courting
It seems that quite suddenly we live in a world of speed dating and online match making. How do boys and girls (or any combination of boys and girls) actually meet in the time sink that is 21st century Ireland. In a freshly laundered shirt and with the Blue Stratus splashed on, Hector sets out to find a mate…

TX 3. Monday 24th March @2135 - Hector goes Digging
So... what are we actually made of? We're not taking about the artistic soul of the warrior Gael here - but rather about the ground beneath his feet. What is Ireland made of? What's under this green and fertile and stony grey soil? And how much of it is there? And who have we sold it to? With his divining rod in one hand, his panning pan in his back pack and the metal detector back in the camper van, Hector will set off to find out about the zinc under Navan, the gold in Croagh Patrick and the water in his own back garden. We'll talk silver, lead, coal, copper and gas and we'll talk fracking (why?), we'll talk turf cutting (why not?) and we'll talk pipelines !

TX 4. Monday 7th April @2135 - Hector goes GAA - Hector immerses himself in one of the most successful amateur associations, of any sort, in the world. Part sports association, part social services, all about passion and all about parish - Unless you come from Cavan .... Anyone for a game of handball? Or rounders?

Hector Goes GAA: Filming locations:

Hector begins his journey into the world of the GAA on All Ireland final day, the Hurling replay between Cork & Clare - and sees up close what it means to these young lads to win an all Ireland title for their County

Hector meets Kilkenny hurling legend DJ Carey in Leixlip GAA Club to talk all things handball

Former Kerry footballer and Aussie rules star Tadhg Kennelly discusses the international rules series in Breffni Park, Co. Cavan

Hector meets former Armagh and Crossmaglen footballer Óisín McConville in the fortress of club football that is St. Oliver Plunkett Park

The Burke family of All Ireland Hurling Club winners St. Thomas' GAA club Co. Galway tell Hector why hurling is everything to them and their family

Hector spends a day in Cuala GAA club, one of the fastest growing clubs in the country, in South Co. Dublin

Hector travels to Cordal GAA club Co. Kerry, to see how they have turned their fortunes around in recent years

Hector plays one of the lesser-known official games of the GAA, Rounders, in Semple Stadium, Thurles

Mayo star Donal Vaughan sizes up Hector for a new pair of shoes, and tells him why this could be Mayo's year and Hector realizes you can meet the heroes of the game anyplace anyday.

TX 1 - Hector Goes Fishing - Filming Locations
Hector travels to the Island of Inis Oirr and meets with lobster fisherman Peadar O'Conghaile 
In Cork Hector visited the English Market to chat to Cork's most famous fishmonger Pat O'Connell
Hector travels to Union Hall to meet Bill Deasy and discuss the dangers of life and death at sea.
Hector meets former fisherman Denis McCarthy from Skibbereen
who stepped away from sea life and opened up West Cork Distillers.
Hector visits Ireland biggest fishing port Killybegs, and meets with Martin Howley, Chairman of the KFO on board the Atlantic Challenger and Joey Murrin who has been a spokesperson for fishermen for over 40 years. 
Hector visits the Talty family in Caherush Point, West Clare who have set up Wild Irish Sea Veg which farms seaweed for the international market.
Hector gets a taste for fishing life when he travels to Kilmore Quay to meet the O'Flaherty brothers of the Saltees fleet and spends the night on a white fish trawler.  
Hector gets a Michelin star fish cooking lesson from Derry Clarke in L'Ecrivain, Dublin.
Hector discovers the role of the Irish Navy in protecting Irish waters when he visits the Irish Navy on the LE Ciara as he boards from Dun Laoghaire Harbour. 
Hector travels to the Department of Agriculture, Food and Marine in Dublin and poses some tough questions for the Minister Simon Coveney. 
TX 2 - Hector Goes Courting: Filming locations:

Hector meets Michael Barron, founder of LGBT youth group BelonG To in Fairview Park, Dublin
Hugh Redmond, Founder of Getout.ie brings Hector speed dating at Bad Bobs Venue, Temple Bar
Leona Connery of Knock Marriage Introductions previously known as the Bureau tells Hector why they are the oldest and best dating agency in the country
Avril Mulcahy, Ireland's modern matchmaker meets Hector for a walk by the sea
Derek Switzer introduces Hector to his Philipino bride Beth on their farm in Tipperary
Hector meets up with Willy Daly - Ireland's traditional matchmaker in Lisdoonvarna Co. Clare
Hector meets Pat Gallagher at the home of the movie 'The Ballroom of Romance' in Ballycroy in Co.Mayo.


Hector Goes ...Digging filming locations
Hector tries his hand at dowsing for water in his back garden with Longford based water diviner Paddy Farrell from the Irish Society of Diviners
Hector meets with Geologist Gerry Stanley and pans for gold in the River Dodder, Co Dublin.
Hector travels to his hometown of Navan to visit the miners of Tara Mines.
In the National History Museum of Ireland Hector chats to Ned Kelly Keeper of the Irish Antiquities Division and they look at the Historical items that have surfaced from Irish soil such as the Derrynaflan Chalice and the bog bodies
Hector meets Chairman of the Turf cutter and contractors association of Ireland Michael Fitzmaurice in Lisnageera Bog in Co Roscommon.
In UCD, Dublin Hector discuss Irelands geological importance with Koen Verurggen, Director of the Geological survey Ireland. Tweet

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