Artists demand repeal of law on abortion

Singers Sinéad O’Connor and Christy Moore, writers Colm Tóibín and Edna O’Brien, actor Cillian Murphy, and artist Pauline Bewick are among leading figures in Irish music, literature, and the arts advocating for the abolition of the eighth amendment to the Constitution, which they say has “prevented our doctors and our legislators from providing proper care to women”.

More than 240 artists have joined the campaign to make abolishing the eighth amendment a central issue in next year’s general election.

They include playwright Enda Walsh, filmmaker Neil Jordan, as well as artists Cecily Brennan, Eithne Jordan, and Alice Maher, and poet Paula Meehan, who announced the Artists’ Campaign to Repeal the Eighth Amendment at a press conference in Dublin yesterday.