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Prime Time Investigates: Sex Traffic (2007)
The Irish government and An Garda Síochána didn't believe trafficking existed; declining to make it illegal. By tracing Eastern European women who had been trafficked into Ireland, the documentary proved this was not the case. This film included chilling interviews with convicted traffickers in Romania and uncovered a Lithuanian husband and wife trafficking operation.
The broadcast of this programme prompted the government to amend trafficking legislation.
Prime Time Investigates: Intellectual Disability (2004)
Observational documentary following the lives of people with an intellectual disability. One family's autistic son suffered frequent violent outbursts. Another family struggled to rear their four autistic sons. The stories exposed the failure of the state to offer adequate support and services to the intellectually disabled and their families.
Iraq: Broken Pieces (2003)
In the month after the fall of Saddam Hussein, Iraq was dealing with the collapse of public order. Security was a major risk yet this film journeyed extensively throughout the country to record the aftermath of the invasion; following wives trying to find missing husbands, families teaching ten year-old sons how to use Kalashnikovs. The team also went on night operations with the US military and filmed the first footage of the return of the expelled Marsh Arabs to Mesopotamia.
Prime Time Investigates: Home Truths (2005)
This film exposed sub-standard care at the Leas Cross Nursing Home in Dublin. The documentary caused a heated political debate and a public outcry, which resulted in the closure of the nursing home. The government established a statutory commission of inquiry into deaths and poor care at Leas Cross. They subsequently set up an independent inspectorate, introducing tough regulations for the nursing home sector.
The Enclave Killings (2003)
For twenty years two young Irish families were kept in the dark regarding the circumstances of the deaths of their fathers in Lebanon in 1980. The two Irish UN soldiers were murdered while on peacekeeping duty. By infiltrating locals connected to the Lebanese Christian Militia, the killer was tracked down.
In the days after transmission, the families of the murdered soldiers were given access to internal army reports on their fathers' deaths. It accepted the failings on behalf of the Irish army and the UN.
School Number One, Beslan (2004)
Intense on-the-ground negotiations with Russian officials facilitated our crew being one of the first documentary teams to gain admittance into North Ossetia where 300 people lost their lives in the Beslan school siege. Arriving in Beslan on the day the siege ended, this report documented a community in turmoil, as it struggled to come to terms with one of the worst terrorist attacks in history.
Property Crash: Where to now? (2011)
Ireland’s property bubble was the biggest in history and the subsequent fallout was equally traumatic. For the first time this documentary mapped the nation revealing the areas and types of properties most affected by the crash and those least likely to recover. Travelling to Finland and Japan, the documentary looked outside for answers to Ireland’s future.





