Return to Our Lady's
Return to Our Lady's tells the stories of children and parents coping with serious illness, and gives an inside view into a major hospital operating in the modern Irish healthcare system

In RTÉ's Return to Our Lady's, Ireland's largest children's hospital once again opens its doors to the cameras, two years after the first series. The six-part fly- on-the-wall documentary series goes back to Our Lady's Hospital in Crumlin, revisiting some of the patients familiar from the first series and meeting new children and their families coming in to the hospital.

Over the 6 episodes we'll follow the progress of these and other children, understanding their dilemmas and their courage, their parents' strength in support of them, and the dedication of the doctors, nurses and other hospital staff who work with them.

Alongside these often intense personal stories, the series also provides a first-hand view into how the Irish healthcare system works - in a key hospital where some of the best healthcare in the world is provided in outdated and crowded wards. Children and families have minimal personal space. The risk of accidental cross-infection can be a constant hazard.

For most children, a visit to Our Lady's means treatment for a minor injury or infection. For others however, the hospital has become a second home.

Since the first series, the hospital has grown, with new outpatients and surgery buildings. But it still relies on facilities that were built in the '50s.