TV review: Division and delirium as a Constitutional relic was removed

Aideen Doyle, Lucy Kennedy and Maeve O’Brien’s documentary The 8th looked back at the social tumult and occasional rancour that accompanied the abortion referendum of 2018

The 8th on RTÉ One focused in the main on the tactics of those who helped to repeal the Eighth.

The 8th (RTÉ One)

In Treatment (Sky Atlantic)

Fleadh Fest ’21 (TG4)

It would be fair to say that the two sides which campaigned for the repeal, or retention, of the Eighth Amendment to the Constitution in 2018 went at it with fervour and an absolute conviction of the rightness of their cause. Where did that leave others, torn between medical assertions of the need for change, a series of tragic events and nagging, complicated ...