Actor Liam Neeson Has Narrated A New Film For Amnesty International Calling For Abortion To Be Legalised In His Native Ireland.
The Taken star has teamed up with the human rights charity to produce the video as part of a drive to change the country's strict anti-abortion laws.
The movement aims to abolish Ireland's eighth amendment, which gives constitutional rights to a foetus even in the early stages of pregnancy, and Liam addresses the issue in the chilling black and white footage, which shows images of a ruined church and gravestones.
"A ghost haunts Ireland. A cruel ghost of the last century. Still bound to the land," he says. "It blindly brings suffering, even death to the women whose lives it touches. Feared by politicians, this is a ghost of paper and ink. A spirit that lives in a constitution written for a different time. It is the shadow of the country we hoped we had left behind. Ireland doesn't have to be chained to its past. It's time to lay this ghost to rest. Repeal the eighth."
The video, titled Chains, was produced by celebrated comedy writer/director Graham Linehan, the brains behind sitcoms including Father Ted and The IT Crowd.
A number of Irish stars, including actor Cillian Murphy and Oscar-nominated director Jim Sheridan, recently backed a similar drive called the Artists' Campaign to Repeal the Eighth Amendment, which also aims to change Ireland's abortion laws.
Every working day for the last ten years, insurance salesman Michael MacCauley has gotten the...
The Watergate scandal is one of the biggest political incidents of the 20th century, which...
Faith is a topic Martin Scorsese can't quite shake, courting controversy with complex films like...
A difficult movie to market, this isn't actually the BFG-style fantasy adventure it looks like....
Father Sebastião Rodrigues (Andrew Garfield) and Father Francisco Garrpe (Adam Driver) are Portuguese Jesuit priests...
Conor's life has never been easy, his mother is loving but any other family members...
A long time ago in a galaxy far, far away. A trade dispute on the...
A long time ago in a galaxy far, far away. The majestic order of honourable,...
With a script by Brad Ingelsby (Out of the Furnace), this thriller has more substance...
With the marriage between Ted (Seth MacFarlane) and Tami-Lynn (Jessica Barth) having gone off and...
Ted (Seth MacFarlane) is getting married. The next thing the couple have on their to-do...
Jimmy Conlon is a former hit man for the mob whose life of crime have...
As with the first two films in this dumb but bombastically watchable franchise, writers Luc...