Room To Improve turned the nation into a pile of emotional wrecks last night

Last night’s Room To Improve featured a very special boy who captured the heart of the nation.

Michael is 12 years old and in a wheelchair. On breaks from his residential care, he often visits his former teacher Ann Higgins and her husband Barry McCabe. Michael considers their house in Malahide his home from home.

Ann and Barry wanted to make their house with its narrow corridors and small rooms more wheelchair-friendly for Michael when he visited. And that's where the Room To Improve team came in.