We'll Support You Evermore

We'll Support You Evermore is a British television movie of 1985 written and directed by Douglas Livingstone, starring John Thaw and Ciarán Hinds, about a troubled period in the history of Northern Ireland.

Plot

Geoff Hollins is the father of David Hollins, a young British Army officer serving in Northern Ireland who has been found brutally murdered. The circumstances are mysterious, even before Hollins finds his son's girlfriend Siobhan O'Hagan is the sister of Liam O'Hagan, the Provisional IRA man charged with the murder. The intelligence service tries to stop Hollins from attending the trial, and then all charges against O'Hagan are dropped without explanation. Hollins investigates the murder of his son.

Reception

The Listener gave the film an enthusiastic review and commented that it was "set in that last remnant of Empire, Northern Ireland".