Kevin Skelton

Kevin Skelton watched helplessly as a bomb ripped apart the life he knew. It was 15 August 1998, and the place was Omagh. Kevin’s wife Mena was one of the 29 people killed that day, and his daughter Shauna was horrifically injured. Kevin was jus...

Melissa Hill

Eve knows exactly what she wants. After nine good yearsand two lovely kids together, it’s about time Liam madean honest woman of her. After all, they’re as good asmarried anyway, aren’t they?

Eve’s older sister Sam knows more than ...

More Bloody Women

Seventeen cases of death, violence and intrigue at the hands of some of Ireland’s most notorious women...

There has been a huge increase in violent deaths in Ireland in recent years. While men are more often the killers, there has been...

No Deals

Early one morning in 1994, Jackie Burke lay dying on the floor of his elderly mother’s house, his body pumped full of a lifetime’s worth of drugs and alcohol.

An ex-prisoner, Jackie had defied help offered by psychotherapists, soci...

Paisley

Ian Paisley’s journey is extraordinary for the sheer distance it has spanned, a journey unequalled in Irish history. But why did Paisley do it? Why did he put aside years of hostility to all things Irish, Nationalist and Catholic to go int...

Rebels

“British soldiers were bellying along the gutters, then across the bridge, past dead and dying comrades. Some of them, goggle-eyed, spluttering, legs jerking, tongues stiffening, slithered in agony in all directions like hooked fishes on a bank .....

RTÉ Off Camera

What strikes me is that some of the people in these pictures are now moving to the margins of our memory. The sad truth is that there are now probably two generations who haven’t heard of them. We’re up against time in these photographs. And it’s ...

Sheila O Connor

Without Consent is the horrific true story of what happened to women in a modern Irish hospital, Our Lady of Lourdes, Drogheda. Over the course of 25 years, Dr Michael Neary betrayed his patients, his profession and himself by unnecessarily remo...

Stark Raving Rulers

Twenty Minor Despots of the Twenty-First Century is a series of profiles of world leaders who still rule their countries through anti-democratic means. In many forgotten or ignored parts of the world, there are still men who have inherited enti...

Tara's Destiny

It’s not easy being a businesswoman in the 1960s, but Tara Fitzgerald has done very well for herself. She runs her own hotel and a boarding house and has been offered an interesting investment opportunity. But Tara can’t let go of Ballyg...