Episode 2
The ‘voice’ of Irish morning radio and famously steely political interviewer reclaims the keys to her childhood home in Dublin’s Coolock where she grew up the bright ambitious daughter of a postal worker and a psychiatric nurse. Reliving her teenage days as a care assistant on the wards of St Ita’s Psychiatric Hospital in Portrane she wonders at the arc of a life that’s taken her from those forbidding Victorian walls to narrating RTÉ’s seminal ‘States of Fear’ series that blew the lid on decades of institutional abuse.
About Keys to My Life
Presenter Brendan Courtney coaxes memories and revelations from four more well-known Irish personalities as he accompanies them back to the places that have meant most to them over the course of their lives.