A coroner has criticised "repeated failures" at a high-profile abortion clinic following the death of a mother of one, hours after she had her foetus terminated.

Campaigners have taken the first step in a bid to take a council to court over a ban on demonstrations outside a UK abortion clinic.

A UK-based clinic which offers abortion services for women has denied a claim they are to set up operations in Dublin.

In Belfast, an anti-abortion protester convicted of harassing a Marie Stopes clinic director has won her appeal.