Savannah reached the Cliffs of Moher by ferry after TODAY spent all four hours filming in Kenmare, and that is why the program is in Ireland. The ride came after Liam O'Brien told her the team was just at the tail end of a storm, which turned a location shoot into something rougher than a standard broadcast day.
Kenmare Takes the Full Broadcast
All four hours of TODAY are being filmed in Kenmare, in the southwest corner of Ireland, with Tourism Ireland backing the trip and Sheen Falls Lodge sponsoring the venue. For a live morning franchise, that is not a quick remote hit; it is a full on-location production built to carry the whole program from one Irish base.
Carson described Kenmare as “a beautiful little spot” and said it “falls at the foot of some mountains, right at the Kenmare Bay,” while also calling it “the little nest.” That framing fits the setup here: the broadcast is using one place as a launch point, then widening out to the wider Irish landscape rather than treating the country as a backdrop for a single segment.
Cliffs of Moher by Ferry
Savannah said, “This is crazy,” during the swell, and then later added, “Wow” and “Incredible. I can't believe I'm standing here” while viewing the cliffs from above. The route mattered because it put one of the day’s most recognizable locations in motion rather than on a postcard, with the ferry ride doing the work of the reveal.
The Cliffs of Moher rise more than 700 feet above the Atlantic Ocean, sit inside a UNESCO Global Geopark, and lie on the Wild Atlantic Way, the 1600-mile route that runs from Inishowen’s Malin Head to Kinsale. They are also thought to be more than 300 million years old and appeared in the 2009 movie Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, which gives the segment both scale and a ready-made visual reference point.
Keir Simmons added history and heritage context, and Savannah summed up the day’s production values with, “Every shot is beautiful and every person is beautiful.” That is the practical answer to the Ireland question: TODAY is not just visiting a place, it is using Kenmare and the cliffs to turn a routine broadcast into a larger, location-driven hour by hour build.
Kerry Hills on the Desk
Kerry Hills made a custom Bespoke Marquetry Broadcast Table especially for the TODAY team, a detail that shows how much of this trip was built as a one-off production rather than a simple travel segment. With all four hours based in Kenmare and the day branching out to the cliffs, the show has already used Ireland as both set and subject.
What follows from that is straightforward: viewers get the rest of the Ireland programming from the same on-location setup, and the only real open question is why TODAY chose Kenmare as the base instead of another place in Ireland. The answer may be editorial, logistical, or both, but the broadcast itself is already making the case for Kenmare as the anchor.
