Top Cast
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Shannon Haly
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Brendan Mulhern
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Marie O’Donovan
Overview
"COLEEN" is the story of a woman, Coleen, and her 3 daughters on the run up to The Irish Woman's Liberation Movement in Ireland in the 1970's.
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