Northern Ireland

Line of Duty star makes personal journey to Donegal in memory of late friend for new TV travel show

Slieve League on the coast of Co Donegal, is among locations to feature in a new Channel 5 travel show hosted by actor Adrian Dunbar.
Slieve League on the coast of Co Donegal, is among locations to feature in a new Channel 5 travel show hosted by actor Adrian Dunbar. Slieve League on the coast of Co Donegal, is among locations to feature in a new Channel 5 travel show hosted by actor Adrian Dunbar.

LINE of Duty star Adrian Dunbar has said a new travel show allowed him to make a "very personal journey" in memory of a late friend.

Adrian Dunbar's My Ireland will air on Channel 5 on Wednesday at 8pm.

A follow-up to his previous Coastal Ireland series, the new show takes the star to some of his favourite locations.

The 64-year-old said in an interview with the Radio Times that the show took him to a spot in Co Donegal with special significance for him.

The crew travelled to Slieve League, a coastal cliff in the south-west of the county where Mr Dunbar had paid a visit with his friend, Belfast actor John Keegan, before his death from a terminal illness in 1998.

The star kept the significance of the location from the show's crew during the pilgrimage.

"When we decided that we were starting in Slieve League, nobody else but me knew what connection I had to Slieve League. It's a very spectacular place, but nobody really knew that I had other connections to it with my friend, John Keegan," Mr Dunbar said.

"And I thought, if I'm here, by way of kind of marking the significance of this place to me, I will tell the story of John – how he came when he was young to that spot, he travelled as far west as he could and then many years later, on his final journey, he decided to go there as well and we accompanied him, which is a real privilege."