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Repeal The 8th - Emmet Kiran, Aisling Bea, Tara Flynn, Lisa McInerney, Louise O'Neill, Caitlin Moran, Anne Enright, Sinéad Gleeson, Una Mullally

As someone who comes from and lives in Northern Ireland, this statement is very pertinent to me. People seldom acknowledge that the law that governs the Republic of Ireland doesn't operate in the North. There's a border that separates the North and South. Basically, what I'm saying is that even though abortion is now legal in the South, we are still subject to archaic laws that categorise abortion as illegal in the North.

 

Despite being the Republic of Ireland's closest neighbour and having almost identically harsh abortion laws, Northern Ireland is seldom acknowledged by most within the Repeal movement.