Keys to My Life: Season 2, Episode 6 - ProjectFreeTV

2 - 6: Áine Lawlor

Brendan Courtney is joined by broadcaster and political interviewer Áine Lawlor to visits certain places that have shaped her life, including her childhood home in Dublin's Raheny where she grew up the bright ambitious daughter of a postal worker and a psychiatric nurse. Reflecting on 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