Peter McGuire explores the treatment and prevention options available to child sex offenders in Ireland and potential offenders, and the effectiveness of those models. He also looks at how non-offending pedophiles are treated by the healthcare system. Peter’s work was…
2015 Funded Projects
The fifth funding round took place in winter 2015. Eight applicants were successful from all strands of the media. Here you will find examples of their work:
Hector Pastor and Sarah-Jane Fortune: Visa Factories or English Schools?
Over the last three years, the English language Industry in Ireland has suffered many school closures, exposing the malpractice taking place in some schools and resulting in hundreds of international students losing large sums of money. This hour-long documentary, funded…
Tom Mooney: When out of hours care proves fatal
Tom Mooney’s report ‘when out of hours care proves fatal’, is an investigation of the paucity of out of hours care made available to people suffering from the abrupt onset of mental illness. In putting together his report, Tom interviewed…
Bairdre Flood: The Hungry Road
Bairbre Flood spent a week in the migrant camp in Calais, France speaking to the people forced there through war or the political and economical situations in their home lands from which they fled. Her documentary ‘The Hungry Road’ for…
Susan Dennehy: Voices from the Spectrum
As part of Autism Awareness Month, Susan Dennehy produced a series of radio reports called ‘voices from the spectrum’ which were aired on Newstalk’s, Pat Kenny Show. Susan’s reports exposed the reality of life for families of children with Autism Spectrum…
