Keys to My Life - Season 2
Season 2
Episodes
Mary Coughlan
Brendan Courtney invites singer Mary Coughlan to revisit the places where she has lived that have shaped her life. From her troubled early years in the suburbs of Galway through to the pre-fame years as a struggling young mother with a secret
Linda Martin
Brendan Courtney invites 1992 Eurovision winner Linda Martin to revisit places she have lived in that have shaped her life, including her childhood home on a tough council housing scheme in Protestant East Belfast and the apartment she shared with Louis Walsh in Dublin
Sharon Shannon
Brendan Courtney invites musician Sharon Shannon to revisit places she have lived in that have shaped her life, including the Co Clare farmhouse where she grew-up and the dream home she built in Galway from the fruits of her success
Christy Dignam
Brendan Courtney is joined by Aslan frontman Christy Dignam, who revisits the council house in Finglas where he grew up to the terraced house he bought for just £14,000 as a struggling young newlywed. Christy unravels the thread that links childhood sexual abuse with his heroin addiction in adulthood, the derailing of his American dream and his love for the woman who saved him from himself
Brian D'Arcy
Brendan Courtney meets broadcaster Fr Brian D'Arcy, taking a trip back to the tiny village of Bellanaleck in Co Fermanagh where the priest grew up and found his vocation, revisits Ireland's best-known ballroom where he once heard the confessions of showband stars before they went on stage, and muses on the part he played in creating sitcom Father Ted
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
Liam Ó Maonlaí
Hothouse Flowers frontman Liam Ó Maonlaí travels from the remote Dingle cottage bequeathed to him by his parents to the impressive home where he grew up in the affluent Dublin suburb of Clonskeagh
Mary O'Rourke
Mary O'Rourke returns to her childhood home in Athlone, then to the Hudson Bay Hotel purchased by her family and she also returns to the Dublin apartment where she lived as Ireland's only female Minister
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