Two Meath people 'In Your Shoes'

Starting on RTE 2 next Monday evening at 5pm is a new series, 'In Your Shoes’, brings eight people - four able-bodied and four with physical disabilities  - on the trip of a lifetime to Central America, where they shared their different experiences of the world while on the journey.
In the spring of this year, eight young people met for the first time in Delphi Training Lodge in Galway. Four were able-bodied while four had physical disabilities (some from birth, some acquired). These eight individuals, including two from Meath, had lived very different lives but they all share a spirit for adventure and a devil-may-care attitude.
Taking part are Clodagh Farrell from Dunboyne, and Brion Kiernan from Athboy, while Ashbourne’s Daráine Mulvilhill is one of the presenters.
In Delphi, the group bond and learn the ropes. But while they learn new skills of abseiling, climbing, orienteering, kayaking, they remain in the dark as to where they are ultimately going. Or what they are going to do when they get there. At the end of episode one on Monday evening, they are told their destination – two remote outposts in in the Central American country of Costa Rica.
The six-part series follows the eight as they fly to Costa Rica where, paired-up teams of one abled-bodied and one disabled person, they undergo a series of challenges. Over the half-hour programmes they will bond, surf, climb and raft and a host of other things.
For these eight people, Costa Rica will be both paradise and obstacle course: a dream and sometimes a nightmare. They will not be competing with each other but with themselves: undergoing new experiences and learning new things as they work as a duo and cope with each other’s abilities and disabilities.
Over the course of the series, viewers will intimately get to know the individual personalities, share their ups and downs, and follow their on-going dramas.
'In Your Shoes’ is about risk and decision-making. It is about success and sometimes failure. It is about sharing and caring and having one hell of a time. And ultimately it is about being in someone else’s shoes and realising that yes, they sometimes fit. Perfectly.
The series has two on-screen mentors, the Nigerian-born presenter from Limerick Kamal Ibrahim, who presented ICA Celebrity Bootcamp, Celebrity Masterchef and Dáraine Mulvihill who was a presenter on Channel 4’s 2012 Paralympics coverage. 'In Your Shoes’ airs on RTÉ 2 on Mondays, at 5pm.