TG4 to say 'Fáilte 2022' from Rath Chairn

Blathnaid and Nan Ni Chofaigh join dancing footballer Mary Kate Lynch and a host of musicians and singers

TG4 is to ring in the New Year with 'Fáilte 2022', a feast of trad music and song from Ráth Chairn.

Dáithí Ó Sé and Orla Ní Fhinneadha will have their eyes on the clock with the finest of Ireland’s musicians and singers to see off 2021 and bring in the new year. But, this is no ordinary party as celebrations bring us all around the country too.

Ó Sé and Ní Fhinneadha broadcast from Fáilte 2022’s main stage in the Meath Gaeltacht with tunes from Jiggy, Maighread and Tríona Ní Dhomhnaill with Donal Lunny, The Bonny Men, pipers Éanna Ó Cróinín and Diarmuid Ó hAlmháin, An Chéad Ghlúin eile and three generations of local sean-nós dancers, Máirtín Mac Donncha, Catherine Ní Shúilleabháin and Sara Ní Chonaill.

Locals Bláthnaid Ní Chofaigh and her mother Nan prepare to welcome in 2022. The Meath ladies team celebrates a hard but fruitful year of training and their all-star recipient Mary Kate Lynch joins the fray for a few steps.

Fáilte 2022 also visits some of Ireland’s best loved towns and the musicians in them. Venture to the iconic Matt Molloy’s in Westport where we’ll meet maestro Kevin Burke and the man of the house, Matt Molloy with Brian McGrath. Matt’s son Peter Molloy and Dan Delaney also join for a few tunes. Cathy Jordan, Seamie O’Dowd and Rick Epping from The Unwanted get the party well underway and big band, Blás featuring David Doocey, Stephen Doherty, Shane McGowan, Anne Brennan and Kevin Doherty will have us dancing in our seats.

Ó Sé and Ní Fhinneadha direct us north to Donegal’s famous Rusty Mackerel bar in the picturesque town of Teileann. There we’ll meet living legends Jimmy and Peter Campbell and get a taste of the wildness of Donegal music. Fiddlers extraordinaire Tara Conaghan and Clare Friel join us as well as Dermot Byrne and Bríd Harper.

TG4 New Year's Eve @ 11:30pm