Expectant parents of babies with fatal foetal conditions who travel to Britain for a termination have to use freezer bags in order to keep their bodies cold in coffins when crossing back over the Irish Sea, the Oireachtas Committee on the Eighth Amendment will hear today.

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Isobel delivered her little boy at 6.30pm and by 7.10pm was out on the street of the Yorkshire clinic where she had given birth carrying her baby’s body in a cardboard box. From there she and her partner went back to their hotel.

CHRISTMAS is such a crazy time, particularly if you’re female, and a mother, and you bear primary responsibility for producing the Yuletide spread on the big day.

In response to your Page One article last Monday, Micheál Martin appears to be applying the same logic to the issue of abortion as the Government does to personal insolvency, the dreaded moral hazard.