Patrick - A Young Traveller Lost

Credits

Directed & Produced by: Alan Bradley

Head of Production: Judy Wilson

Production Accountant: Will Skidmore

Executive Producers: Des Henderson, Ed Stobart

Director of Photography: Joseph Ingersoll

Editor: Gráinne Creighton

Description

This ground-breaking documentary shines a light on the urgent and sensitive issue of the alarmingly high suicide rates among the Irish Traveller community through the harrowing, deeply personal story of 12-year-old Patrick McDonagh.

“EVEN THOUGH I AM FAMILIAR WITH THE ISSUES WITH WHICH THE TRAVELLING COMMUNITY STRUGGLE, THE PERSONAL TESTIMONIES OF PATRICK MCDONAGH’S PARENTS, AND BERNIE POWER MOVED ME IN A WAY I FIND DIFFICULT TO DESCRIBE.

IT WOULD BE SO VALUABLE IF ALL MEMBERS OF THE PUBLIC COULD SEE THIS FILM, WHICH DESCRIBES A LIFE LOST TO BULLYING…. RTE AND ALLEYCATS FILMS HAVE IN MY MIND PLACED ALL OF US IN THEIR DEBT IN WHAT IS A SPLENDID, VALUABLE EXERCISE IN PUBLIC SERVICE BROADCASTING. THERE ARE SO MANY REASONS I COULD THINK OF WHY THIS FILM SHOULD BE SEEN IN EVERY HOUSEHOLD, AND IT WOULD BE JUST INCREDIBLY VALUABLE IF IT WERE SEEN IN EVERY SCHOOL.”

– PRESIDENT OF IRELAND, MICHAEL D HIGGINS