Croí na Ceiste le Caoimhe - Season 1

In this episode, Caoimhe asks how important religion and spirituality is to young people growing up in Northern Ireland today.

Religion in Northern Ireland has many connotations and links to its sometimes dark history, but do young people still find a place for faith in their lives? Caoimhe meets with young people of different faiths, beliefs and opinions all over the country, including Sam Ó Fearraigh in Donegal, who discusses his recent conversion to Judaism, and County Down student Anna Ní Nualláin, who was brought up as an atheist.

Caoimhe gets an insight into different religious celebrations by attending a dinner party in Belfast to celebrate Diwali, the Hindu festival of lights. She also delves into ancient Irish religious practices, travelling to County Westmeath to visit the sacred Hill of Uisneach and take part in a fire ceremony. Will Caoimhe be any more enlightened as to the role religion plays in the lives of her generation?

Caoimhe investigates people's experience of sex education. Where does our knowledge and understanding come from? Are we learning in school, from parents, from peers or online? Caoimhe visits universities around the country to find out how they are informing their students about sex. She talks to teachers responsible for providing sex education and youth group representatives who are asking for more to be done. She also meets with young men in the Shankill area in Belfast to discuss where and when they started learning about sex. Clíona Saidléir, of Rape Crisis Ireland, talks about pornography and how it could be normalising sexual violence, and Caoimhe chats to a young woman who shares the story of how one video taken without her consent has impacted her life.

Caoimhe looks at the negative impact of social media on how we feel about our bodies. She goes behind the camera with model Shade Fairley from Belfast, meets magazine editor Megan Roantree and challenges four young women to take a break from social media to test how the platforms are impacting on how they feel about their bodies.

In the final episode of the series, we focus on the environment and how some young people experience eco-anxiety that stems from climate change. We meet young activist, Anna Kernahan and friend Kay, who participate in a Fridays For Future School Strike in Belfast city centre. It's the 115th week of their strike. Caoimhe attends an Environmentalism lecture in Queen's University Belfast led by Professor John Barry who tells her about the worries and eco-anxiety his students have about the future of the planet. One student and young dad talks to Caoimhe about his concerns for his son's future if nothing is done about climate change. Martha, a vegan living in Dublin, gives Caoimhe tips on how to shop more sustainably. And Aoife de Bhál, who works in The Bog Meadows, reminds us how we can all play our part and become more connected to nature.