‘Repeal’ video gets 250,000 views in 24 hours

A two-minute video depicting Irish women’s journeys across the Irish Sea to access abortions received almost quarter of a million views in its first 24 hours online.

The short film entitled ‘We Face this Land’ was shot on an Irish beach last month and involved more than 100 Irish women of all ages, including actors Aoibhinn McGinnity and Seana Kerslake as well as Independent senator Lynn Ruane.

“Essentially Dave Tynan and Dave Leahy (directors) had decided they wanted to make something for the pro-choice movement and novelist Sarah Maria Griffin wrote this amazing poem which she performed at a Repeal Project event and I knew when I heard that it encapsulated everything that Repeal stood for and why,” said Anna Cosgrave, founder of the Repeal Project.