More than 3,800 contacts were made to crisis-pregnancy counselling services in Ireland last year, including 36 children under the age of 17 who sought help from two organisations.

WOMEN who are pregnant, on maternity leave or returning to work after having a baby are being illegally targeted by employers engaged in cost-cutting exercises, according to the Equality and Rights Alliance.

IRISH viewers got a stark insight into how an abortion is performed when Channel 4 screened its controversial documentary My Foetus last night.