My Passion, My Power – Sunday’s 8pm beginning August 6th
In My Passion, My Power, three extraordinary Irish women bring us their inspirational stories of passion, resilience and survival. These are deeply personal and compelling documentaries presented by the women themselves.
Episode One: The Fighter.
Mary Kate Slattery was diagnosed with anorexia when she was just ten-years old. In this documentary Mary Kate examines her illness and her recovery, with her parents, her psychiatrist at Great Ormond Street Children’s Hospital in London, where she was a patient for more than a year, and with her boxing coach. This is a documentary about mental health and about finding the resilience to fight a powerful enemy.
Episode Two: Ms D Amy Dunne
When Amy Dunne was just 17 she found herself at the centre of a huge legal battle when she was refused permission to travel outside of Ireland for an abortion having learned that her baby was suffering from a fatal foetal abnormality. Now in her early thirties, and a mother to a teenage son, Amy is using her voice and experience to campaign for changes to Ireland’s abortion laws.
Episode Three: Ice Woman Nuala Moore, from Dingle in Co. Kerry gave up triathlons and long distance swimming to become a record breaking ice swimmer. Since switching disciplines she has clocked up a series of ‘firsts’. Now having swum in Cape Horn and across the Bering Straits in polar winds, she wants to share what she has learned about resilience, about the impact of cold water on our bodies and about the psychology of extreme sports.