Launched by the Mayor of Galway and local Cablelink manager John Moore O’Connor, West Coast Television is apparently the third local television service (after Dublin and Cork I presume) being provided by cable supplier Cablelink. The sole program being broadcast on WCTV to date is a local entertainment and sports show, The Kitchen Sink, which is produced by Galway’s own Mugshot Television company.

The Kitchen Sink is broken up into three main sections. The first (and longest), an overview of the week’s events in Galway, is presented by Síle Seoige (sister of TV3 news presenter Gráinne Seoige according to the current edition of Who’s Who in Irish TV ;-)). This includes reviews of plays currently running in Galway, or bands with upcoming gigs etc. Interspersed with these event previews are snippets of Síle and her cameraman asking people on Shop Street silly questions like why do pets look like their owners and so on. The second part of the show is a film review spot with Julian Gough (a member of local band Toasted Heretic). Finally, a sports round up is presented by Kevin Dwyer. Overall, it’s a good guide to things happening in Galway for those too lazy to pick up a newspaper, and of course you get a better visual and aural idea of what you could go and see.

If you are a cable subscriber in Galway, tune your television to 72 MHz (where you’ll see a Cablelink test card). The 45-minute show airs on Thursday evenings at 7:30 (with repeats on Sundays at 6:30 PM).