TV review: The Change — Ireland’s Menopause Story is public broadcasting at its best 

The RTÉ One show on menopause was engaging and informative about a topic that's at last being discussed in public 

The Change – Ireland’s Menopause Story: Dr Deirdre Lundy was a beacon of wisdom on the RTÉ show. 

For generations of Irish women, menstruation was a taboo subject and they suffered its slings and arrows in silence. That is changing at long last, as was clearly illustrated in that memorable week in May 2021, when women around the country took to the airwaves on RTÉ Radio 1's Liveline show to describe in vivid detail the detrimental impact menopause had on their lives.

The unprecedented Liveline outpouring is taken as the jumping-off point for the RTÉ documentary The Change – Ireland’s Menopause Story. The title in itself is a reminder of how far we have already come — a nod to the now thankfully outdated term for menopause, in this case more of a reference to the growing movement for enlightenment on the topic.