Spotlight - Season 3 / Year 2017

Season 3 / Year 2017
Episodes

14/02/2017
After the fall of Stormont, Jennifer O'Leary asks if power sharing can ever really be stable here and travels to Kosovo to see how it works there.

21/02/2017
Hard-hitting investigations on the stories that matter in Northern Ireland. Jennifer O'Leary looks at the challenges over making power sharing work at Stormont.

07/03/2017
With British Army veterans set to be tried for Troubles killings, Mandy McAuley meets their comrades campaigning to stop the cases and assesses how their fight will feature in Stormont's new negotiations.

The Doctor Won't See You Now
GPs in Northern Ireland are threatening to quit the NHS and go private because they say they are under-resourced and facing a huge work load. Chris Moore investigates.

21/03/2017
A studio audience put questions to opinion-formers. Panellists are former secretary of state Owen Paterson, former tanaiste Joan Burton, former Sinn Fein MLA Daithi McKay, DUP MP Jeffrey Donaldson and commentators Brian Feeney and Lesley Riddoch. Noel Thompson presents.

Martin McGuinness: Armalite to Ballot Box
Jim Fitzpatrick charts the journey of Martin McGuinness from man of war to man of peace, and examines the future of Sinn Fein without him.

23/05/2017
Hard-hitting investigations on the stories that matter in Northern Ireland.

30/05/2017
Hard-hitting investigations on the stories that matter in Northern Ireland. As the Brexit negotiations begin and the border tops the agenda, Jim Fitzpatrick travels to Brussels in search of answers.
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