Yearly Archives: 2016

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A protest is taking place outside the GPO on O’Connell Street in Dublin at 6pm, following the arrest and prosecution of a 21-year-old woman in Northern Ireland, under the 1861 Offences Against the Person Act.

She’s facing life imprisonment for taking abortion pills.

The Abortion Rights Campaign writes:

“We condemn the arrest and prosecution of a 21-year-old woman in County Down who has been accused of using poison to procure abortion. Both Mifepristone and Misoprostol are on the World Health Organisation’s list of essential drugs; these drugs are not poison. These are the same drugs used for medical abortions in the rest of the UK. If this woman lived in England instead of Northern Ireland she would have been prescribed this medication on the NHS. Mifepristone and Misoprostol are also routinely used for miscarriage management.”

Not A Criminal Solidarity Protest GPO (Facebook)

Related: Pro-choice activists plan Belfast protest over woman’s abortion trial (The Guardian)

Leah Farrell/Photocall Ireland

Thanks Vicky Conway

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Bridget & Eamon.

A first look.

Anne Louise Foley writes:

Bridget & Eamon is a new six episode series written by Jason Butler, Jennifer Zamparelli and Bernard O’Shea. Set in the 1980s, it stars Jennifer as Bridget (top right) and Bernard as Eamon (top left) in roles already massively popular in sketches on Republic of Telly.

The cast features Norma Sheahan, Eleanor Tiernan and Sharon Mannion as the Bridget’s neighbours, Colum McDonnell as Eamon’s mate Fierce Handy Frank and Edwin Sammon as the local parish priest.Guest stars include Mary McEvoy, Linda Martin, John Colleary, Pat McDonnell, John Lynn, Karl Spain, Keith Walsh and Alison Spittle.

Starts RTÉ2 on Monday 1 February at 10pm.