Broadcaster
RTÉ One, RTÉ Player
Episode Count
1 x 50'
- SHINE Mental Health AwardsWINNER x04 Awards2024
- Radharc AwardWINNER2024
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