sentences:  The play was later adapted for television by Granada with additional material by Hugh Leonard and for radio by BBC Belfast.Ten years after its production, Sam Hanna Bell wrote that "at last the unclean spirit of
  sectarianism had been dragged before the floodlights and examined with passion, pity and corrosive laughter".Later critics also consider the play to have been ground-breaking; James McAleavey considers "Over the Bridge" and the controversy surrounding its staging to be "a landmark in the cultural history of Northern Ireland and ... prophetic of the Troubles to follow;" Michael Parker describes it as "a potent example of a text which illuminates the condition of the culture that frames it" and adds "the story of its reception provides incontrovertible evidence of the unease within the Unionist establishment during this period;" while Lance Pettitt calls the play "a powerful indictment of the failure of labour politics against religious fundamentalism".