RTE’s award-winning current affairs programme ‘Prime Time Investigates’ focuses on the Leas Cross Nursing Home in Swords, where allegations of maltreatment of patients were documented—often filmed by a hidden camera—in May last year, that led to the closure of the home.
IDIR DHA SHAOL (John Mallon 2005)
John Mallon’s short Irish language documentary about homelessness in London tells the simple, painful and heart-rending story of Connemara man, Willie Walsh, who emigrated to London in the 1960s. Winner of Irish Short Documentary Film Award at the Galway Film Fleadh and Festival Award at the IFI Stranger than Fiction Festival in 2005.