There was a fantastic reception for the first episode of The Travellers on RTÉ last night

It was very well-received.

Irish viewers are more used to seeing him as Patrick Ward on Love/Hate, but on Wednesday night, John Connors was earning plaudits for a role in another RTÉ series. The first episode of a three-part series, John Connors: The Travellers, aired on RTÉ last night as John and a team of collectors from the travelling community set about researching, documenting and collecting Traveller history and folklore for a project on behalf of The National Folklore Collection in UCD. Up until now, there hasn’t been much documentation of Traveller history in Ireland and what does exist has been penned by ‘settled people’. The project that John and his team are working on, once completed, will reside in the national archives. Judging by the comments on social media last night, the first episode, which you can catch on RTÉ Player here, went down very well with viewers. "Fascinating" was the word most used to describe it and you catch episode 2 at the same time next week. https://twitter.com/johnconnors1990/status/781245336815886336 https://twitter.com/EmmaAWheatley/status/781245131596951552 https://twitter.com/conor_feehan/status/781258249920282624 https://twitter.com/mosssound/status/781246420783366144 https://twitter.com/SMacB/status/781246348498759680 https://twitter.com/Cathal_McCann/status/781244018181234688 https://twitter.com/Drniallmc/status/781241834383241217 https://twitter.com/LaobhaoiseNihE/status/781240297321889792 https://twitter.com/RichardLooby/status/781238447776342016 https://twitter.com/ForestSidhe/status/781285492117700609 https://twitter.com/cmcgettrick/status/781268617337896960