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A homeless man who jumped into the River Lee, triggering a seven-hour search-and-rescue operation, is receiving psychiatric treatment after being coaxed from a hiding place under a bridge.

Abortions should be permitted in cases of rape and incest, and in later stages of pregnancy where there is a risk of disabling damage to a woman’s health, an internal Labour Party report recommends.

Clare Daly, in her attempt to introduce legislation to allow for termination of pregnancy in the case of fatal foetal abnormality, did the State some service, says Michael Clifford

Alan Shatter, the former justice minister, has waded into the latest row on abortion and declared that politicians can no longer hide behind emotive debate and must instead give people a referendum.

UCC 3-19 GMIT 0-8: The sight of Conor Lehane, Alan Cadogan and Shane O’Donnell being clapped off the field midway through the second-half painted a most accurate picture of this stroll in the park for UCC.

Artificial life support for a brain dead woman and the unborn baby in her womb is to be switched off by order of a three-judge divisional court of the High Court.

Pro-life advocates have described as "crass and unseemly" attempts to repeal the constitutional ban on abortion in light of the heartache generated by the case of a pregnant woman on life support.

The High Court decision to facilitate a clinically-dead pregnant woman being taken off life support brings some sort of conclusion to what was a tragic, heart-rending situation for all involved, especially for the family of the unfortunate woman.

To continue life support treatment for a corpse in order to sustain the unlikely viability of an unborn baby in its womb would be going "from the extraordinary to the grotesque," the High Court was told yesterday.

A leading medical expert has branded as "grotesque" the prospect of continuing to maintain a brain-dead pregnant woman on life- support while the unborn child she is carrying has almost no hope of survival.

A young senior counsel, Conor Dignam, has been given the most important legal assignment of his career — representing the baby whose heart continues to beat in the brain-dead body of its mother in a country hospital.

The Irish Family Planning Association says some women continue with a pregnancy against their wishes, because of the challenges in trying to travel out of the state for an abortion.

A guidance document to help medical experts act within the law when dealing with pregnant women with life-threatening conditions has been published by the Department of Health.

It has been revealed that the baby at the centre of the country's

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The British Family Planning Association has described the decision to force an immigrant rape victim in this country to give birth at 24 weeks rather than allow her an abortion as "nothing short of barbaric".

The HSE has published the terms of reference for its review into the case of a suicidal woman who was refused an abortion.

The HSE has said the terms of reference for its report into the case of a suicidal woman who was refused an abortion will be released today.

A Cabinet minister has weighed in behind calls for a public forum to debate changes to abortion legislation following the case of a raped teenager who was denied a termination.

It is no longer sustainable to maintain laws that visit cruelty on the most vulnerable on the basis of one particular religion, writes Special Correspondent Michael Clifford

That a premature baby was delivered by caesarian section because of concerns for the mother’s mental health has staggering implications for this society, writes Victoria White.

Hundreds of people are taking part in a protest in Dublin calling for abortion to be legalised in Ireland.

Protests will take place across the country this evening, calling for the repeal of the 8th amendment to the Constitution.

Warnings that the young immigrant woman at the centre of the abortion storm was suffering deteriorating mental health over many weeks were not acted upon until she became an immediate suicide risk.

A Fine Gael minister has said the case of a raped suicidal teenager who was denied an abortion is "deeply unsettling", but that it is hard to say if a referendum will be held on such an issue.

It has emerged that the young woman who was refused an abortion and later had her baby delivered by Caesarean section, attempted to take her own life when she was 16 weeks' pregnant.

The HSE is to carry out an investigation into the treatment of the immigrant teenager refused an abortion here despite being raped and certified suicidal.

Demonstrations are to take place in Dublin and Galway tomorrow in protest at the State’s treatment of a suicidal, immigrant woman denied an abortion after becoming pregnant through rape.

Pressure is growing on the Coalition to pave the way for a referendum on whether the constitutional ban on abortion should be lifted or not.

The Government was warned before it passed the Protection of Life During Pregnancy Act that the law would create problems of the kind that have arisen in the current abortion controversy.

The baby at the centre of the latest controversial abortion case has only a 20% to 30% likelihood of not having an intellectual or physical disability because of its early delivery.

The HSE's Director General Tony O'Brien has ordered a report into the circumstances in which a woman was refused an abortion after claiming she was suicidal.

The Education Minister has today rejected claims that the new legislation on abortion is flawed.

A Catholic Bishop has questioned why the baby of a woman who had requested a termination of the pregnancy was delivered at 24 weeks by C-section.

It has emerged the woman at the centre of the latest abortion controversy first requested her pregnancy be terminated at eight weeks.

The Taoiseach is being urged to bring politicians back from their holidays to discuss our abortion laws, after a woman was refused a termination.