Cleaned-up Joy is still a toxic place

Back To The Joy (RTÉ One) saw Donald Taylor Black, 22 years on, revisit the prison

Back To The Joy (RTÉ One) focused on Ireland’s most infamous prison Pic: Tony O’shea

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Back To The Joy(RTÉ One)

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In the mid-1990s, which in television terms is almost ancient history, Donald Taylor Black’s four-part series The Joy for RTÉ One attracted the kind of audiences that existed before streaming services or even DVDs. The third episode of the series, In the Female Prison, had an audience of 877,000. It would be fair ...