DIY SOS Ireland

2023 - 3 - 26

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DIY: SOS review: Adam's house gets turned into a home again (Irish Examiner)

Baz Ashmawy and his team revamped the house on Cork's northside to make it suitable for the 23-year-old who'd suffered a terrible accident.

Among the volunteers are Jimmy, whose daughter grew up with Adam – and Liam whose youngest boys play basketball (“Adam was very helpful to them from when they were small”). the need to have a place you can call home.” For Adam (the family has been living in a friend’s ground-floor apartment since the accident), that home is on Cork’s Redemption Road. This is the daunting task facing the team as the new season of DIY SOS: The Big Build Ireland kicks off on RTÉ.

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Baz Ashmawy, after his run-in with protesters, returns with a ... (The Irish Times)

Television: The Big Build Ireland kicks off its new season by making Adam Drummond's home wheelchair accessible.

The challenge for Ashmawy is to be genuine without condescending to either the Drummonds or the audience. [DIY SOS Christmas special](https://www.irishtimes.com/culture/tv-radio/2022/12/30/baz-ashmawy-blinks-back-tears-then-everybody-else-has-to-as-well/), in which volunteers provided accommodation for Ukrainian refugees, he was followed and abused by a group of protesters. Twelve months on from that life-changing event, he and his family hope to make their home, in the suburb of Blackpool, wheelchair accessible. Cork’s northside is notoriously higgledy-piggledy: the steps leading down to the Drummonds’ front door contain more pitfalls than the Aztec temple at the start of Raiders of the Lost Ark. This week the setting is the northside of Cork city, the milieu of Young Offenders, Roy Keane, Frank O’Connor and the bells of Shandon. Encountered at the end of a long day, all that enthusiasm can be soul-sapping.

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RTE viewers in tears as DIY SOS rebuilds home for former ... (RSVP Live)

The inspirational RTE programme returned to our screens for a fourth season on Sunday night, which saw host Baz Ashmawy meet Adam Drummond and his family in ...

The interest in Bazs face when he's talking to the people is heartwarming." 7 minutes in and I'm already crying". The best show, and always reminds us at the right time, that there are the best of people out there, who just want to help & be there for others. Best wishes to Adam and his family. heartbreaking". "Proud to be from Cork.

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Mum Of Son On DIY SOS Has People On Twitter In Tears (EVOKE)

After losing the use of his legs in an accident, the community of Cork city along with Baz and the DIY SOS team gathered to transform his home.

[March 26, 2023] Best wishes to Adam and his family. The best show, and always reminds us at the right time, that there are the best of people out there, who just want to help & be there for others.

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