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To be clear, while the girls are seen as capable of cruelty and violence, we are not meant to receive them as evil or go, "Well, obviously they’d start eating each other. Look at them."

The mandatory two-stop has been arrived at as a necessary evil - introducing an element of artificiality to ameliorate a specific problem.

Commenting on her daily attendance at the trial at Dublin's Central Criminal Court, Mrs McAleer said "nothing or no one could have prepared me for the evil and harrowing details".

An "evil" sex cult leader who brainwashed and abused children could be released following a parole board hearing.

The film also tackles the social evil that is dowry - the practice of the bride's family gifting cash, clothes and jewellery to the groom's family.