When it comes to abortion, maturity gets checked in at Dáil cloakroom

Whatever recommendation is made should be automatically dealt with by our legislators, minus any attempts by them to tinker with it or alter it, writes Alison O’Connor

There has been much squealing from our politicians over Taoiseach Enda Kenny’s plan to pass the Repeal the 8th parcel to a bunch of regular folk.

“But we are the ultimate citizen’s assembly,” many of them have been saying; their outrage made all the more righteous by the fact they were so recently either elected or re-elected.