TV review: Fighting for love and acceptance in a time of plague

Vivid and heartbreaking, Russell T Davies’s new drama It’s A Sin looks back at the horrors of the 1980s Aids crisis

Olly Alexander and Lydia West in It’s A Sin, a visceral and moving drama about the onset of HIV/Aids in the London gay community

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It’s A Sin (Channel 4)

Davy’s Toughest Team (RTÉ One)

Resident Alien (Sky One)

It’s a matter of record that, in 1991, Irish children were disturbed by the idea that Scud missiles being fired in the Gulf War 4,500 kilometres away might actually reach Ireland. Long before the internet and social media, intensive news coverage was already generating anxiety among primary school children.

The following year, I went with my oldest son ...