Spotlight Episodes Episode guide
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Spotlight Debate: 30/03/2021
Topical TV debate with Jim Fitzpatrick and a panel of studio guests.
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Lockdown: A Year of Loss
One year after the first lockdown, stories of the lives lost to Covid-19.
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Gangland: The Murder of Glenn Quinn
Drugs, murder and fear – Jennifer O’Leary investigates one of NI’s largest loyalist gangs.
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Mother and Baby Homes
Mother and baby homes: were children unlawfully adopted? Lyndsey Telford reports.
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Covid-19: The Last Lockdown?
Will vaccinations and other efforts to beat Covid-19 make this lockdown the last one?
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Irish Sea Border: The Fallout
Jim Fitzpatrick investigates Brexit’s economic and political fallout in Northern Ireland.
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Covid and Hardship
Mandy McAuley meets people struggling financially as a result of the pandemic.
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2020: New Decade New Dilemmas
2020 began with a united Stormont Executive - but has the pandemic pulled them apart?
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Wind Turbines
Conor Spackman investigates a controversial green energy scheme.
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Paramilitaries: Clear and Present Danger
Stephen Dempster uncovers a secret MI5/PSNI review of ongoing paramilitary activity in NI.
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Testing the Tracing
How effective is Stormont’s test and trace strategy to reduce the spread of coronavirus?
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Covid-19: The Second Wave
Mandy McAuley looks at the impact of the second Covid-19 wave on the NI health service.
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Pandemic: Domestic Abuse
Spotlight goes behind the scenes in one of Northern Ireland’s women’s refuges.
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27/10/2020
TV debate on the issues of the day, with Jim Fitzpatrick and a studio panel.
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Cancer's Missing Patients
Conor Spackman investigates the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic on cancer patients.
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Brexit: The Irish Sea Border
Investigating what Brexit may mean for the cost of your supermarket shop and online buying
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Saving Lives and Livelihoods
Covid Cases are up. Unemployment too. Can politicians save lives without killing jobs?
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Conversion Controversy
Two GPs exclusively relate their experiences of what they say was ‘gay conversion therapy’
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22/09/2020
Exploring implications of tighter antivirus measures. Also, is a Brexit deal in danger?
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Spotlight Special
TV debate with Naomi Long, Gavin Robinson, Chris Hazzard, Simon Hoare & Neale Richmond.
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Pandemic: 999
Following Police, Fire Service and Ambulance teams as they work through the pandemic.
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The Other Side of the Pandemic
The damage of Covid-19 on the NHS and patients and the problems stored up for the future.
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Covid-19: Care Homes
Spotlight investigates the Covid-19 care homes crisis.
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26/05/2020
After lockdown, NI is braced for stored-up mental health problems.
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Getting Back to Business
Spotlight assesses the lockdown's economic impact and asks what can Stormont do to help.
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Inside the Pandemic
Spotlight follows frontline health care workers. And sees inside a hospital ICU.
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RHI: The Inquiry Report
Conor Spackman reports on the outcome of the RHI Inquiry.
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Tackling Suicide
Mandy McAuley investigates why Northern Ireland has the highest suicide rate in the UK.
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The Union
What is the future of the Union? Stephen Dempster and Jennifer O’Leary report.
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The Killings of the Three Scottish Soldiers
New information about the murders of three Scottish soldiers in Belfast in 1971.