
Modern Ireland
Ireland in the mid-2000s gets tracked one day at a time, three people per episode, sunrise to sunset, across five installments for TV3. The opener, "Supersized Shes," follows bodybuilders Inga Beinara and Sophia McNamara as they prepare to compete at the Millennium Theatre in Limerick for the Republic of Ireland Bodybuilding Federation Championship. Later episodes move through the VIP Style Awards for a look at Irish celebrity culture, then follow three families among the 60,000 children making their First Communion in 2009, a year when the country spent close to 80 million euros on the celebrations. The European Winners Dog Show at Dublin's RDS supplies another episode, cameras following handlers and owners through the nerves of competition day. A closing episode turns to three people pursuing self-improvement, some working on themselves, others coaching others through it. The camera stays observational throughout, no narrator steering the story, just the day's events as they happen to ordinary people doing something that matters to them.