Derry Girls stars help deliver abortion petition to NI Secretary

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

Derry Girls stars help deliver abortion petition to NI Secretary
Tue, 26 Feb, 2019 - 15:00

Two stars of Channel 4’s Derry Girls have demanded the decriminalisation of abortion in Northern Ireland as they delivered a 60,000-strong petition to Secretary of State Karen Bradley.

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