Mahon’s Way returns to UTV with beautiful new series
Date Posted: August 8, 2025
Mahon’s Way returns to UTV in August for a brand-new series of 10 episodes in which Joe Mahon will travel the length and breadth of Ulster, exploring the rich veins of heritage, history and culture which make our province unique.
Joe Mahon’s ongoing journey, celebrating both the iconic and the unfamiliar aspects of its landscapes, towns and villages, remains enduringly popular with audiences. From rugged Ballintoy on the North Antrim coast, to the serene lakes of Barons Court Estate in County Tyrone, from the sandy bays of Ballywalter on the Ards Peninsula to the architectural grandeur of Monaghan Town, and from the Anglo-Norman stronghold of Dromore in County Down to the wonderfully intact 17th century Derry’s Walls, Joe promises to leave no stone unturned in his quest for the quirky, the unusual and the “lesser spotted” stories that have become the hallmark of “Mahon’s Way”.
“People sometimes suggest that I must have been everywhere by now”, says Joe, “but I can honestly state, hand on heart, that I’ve set foot in many places in this series that I’ve never been in before. I may have driven past them, on the road to somewhere else, but I’ve never before stood on Dromore’s magnificent motte and bailey, or spent time in the dungeons of Lifford gaol, or stepped into a Russian dacha in the heart of the Tyrone landscape, or confronted the Drumlin Giants of Rossmore Forest Park. These have all been new experiences for me and I look forward to sharing them with our viewers.”
“We always try to take a fresh look at things, to unearth new information, or at least to shed new light on the familiar,” Joe continues, “I love it when people come away feeling that they’ve learnt something they didn’t know before. Our programmes are part-funded by Northern Ireland Screen’s Ulster-Scots Broadcast Fund and it’s from our Ulster-Scots contributors that we get many of our most fascinating, intriguing and downright bizarre stories.”
Mahon’ Way returns to UTV on Sunday August 10th at 6pm.
