Nicola Coughlan, who plays Clare Devlin, and Siobhan McSweeney, who plays Sister Michael, joined 26 other women in the march at Westminster.

As the British House of Lords voted against the 42 days detention limit, dozens of Amnesty International supporters donned pyjamas for a “mass sleepwalk” in protest against the measure.

Amnesty International today called on all judges in the UK to decline appointments to sit on any inquiry set up under the recently-enacted Inquiries Act – including a planned inquiry into allegations of security force collusion in the murder of Belfast solicitor Pat Finucane.