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.

Fearing angry clashes at the FG annual conference in Limerick next weekend, gardaí have drawn up a major security plan and the South Court Hotel venue in Raheen will be a no-go area for non-delegates.

Anti-abortion campaign group Youth Defence said it should not be subject to rules on disclosure of funding because it is a human rights organisation and “not campaigning for political purposes”.

New laws that would force anti-abortion campaign group Youth Defence to disclose the source of its funding are being considered by Environment Minister Phil Hogan.

The prominent anti-abortion group, Youth Defence, has refused to declare the source of its financing despite repeated requests to do so from the political-funding watchdog.

The pro-life group Youth Defence has contacted gardaí after its website became the target of hackers who claimed the charity is effectively a US-funded group focused on preventing abortion in Ireland.

IT was all action on Saturday afternoon in Dublin.

Groups from both sides of the abortion debate have hit out at the Coalition’s attempts to bring clarity to the issue.

The Irish pro-life movement has gone global with a professional and sophisticated campaign, but will those involved adopt the heavy-handed tactics of their counterparts in the US, asks John Hearne

Anti-abortion group Youth Defence has rejected criticism of the use of controversial images in its campaign ads and compared them to the publications of corpses in Nazi death camps.

It’s two years this month since the morning-after pill went on sale over the counter. How did our sexually active young people fare since? Suzanne Harrington reports

Two pieces of junk mail recently came through my letter box together.

Dublin City Council is removing anti-abortion posters erected without a permit.

Anti-abortion groups in Ireland look set to receive a major financial boost from pro-life campaigners in the US.

HOW many people with strong views on abortion expound in an echo chamber?

The advertising watchdog has defended its failure to act on anti-abortion ads which have been branded as “offensive and inaccurate”.

THE European Court’s decision on the right of women to access abortion “does not oblige Ireland to introduce legislation authorising abortion,” according to Cardinal Seán Brady.

IN his letter (January 11) concerning the bishops and Cóir, Barry Walsh makes at least two errors that must be corrected.

PRO-LIFE campaigners have clashed over whether the Lisbon Treaty will force Ireland to compromise its ban on abortion.

Foreign Affairs Minister Micheál Martin has launched an attack on some of the groups campaigning for a 'No' vote in the re-run of the Lisbon Treaty referendum.

LABOUR leader Eamon Gilmore is refusing to accept the yes side is losing in the Lisbon treaty campaign.

VOTE ya says Paul McGrath. Vote ya says Paul McGrath.

ANTI-LISBON treaty group Coir’s poster campaign was condemned by Minster for European Affairs Dick Roche, who said the group was “trading on mis-truths and misrepresentation of people’s fears”.

A ROW between Foreign Affairs Minister Micheál Martin and the most prominent anti-Lisbon campaign group has deepened over its ties with anti-abortion activists.

The Minister for Foreign Affairs is accusing several anti-Lisbon groups of running cynical campaigns to distort debate on the Lisbon Treaty.

THE blasphemy bill proposed by Justice Minister Dermot Ahern has given rise to considerable comment in your news and letter columns with most, if not all, writers expressing concern over the effects of such a measure on the rights to freedom of expression in Ireland.

IF the members of Youth Defence who disrupted the recent euthanasia debate at Cork University Hospital, and Bishop John Buckley, truly believe “the Lord alone is the giver of life and he alone has the right to decide when that life should end”, then would they support closing hospitals and outlawing medical treatment as this is just as equally human interference in the natural progression of life?

PROTESTERS who forced the cancellation of a controversial euthanasia lecture have been branded “religious zealots” whose actions should be condemned.

MARIE HARTE (Letters, March 2) is to be commended for seeking the best possible treatment for her son.

AT a recent seminar organised by Youth Defence we were treated to a superb address by two experts on stem cell research, Dr David Prentice and Dr Wesley Smith. Both men are known and respected worldwide for their expertise on this subject.

IT SEEMS Youth Defence is spending €60,000 on their advertising campaign against stem cell research at UCC.

CONFESSION being good for the soul, I admit to being slightly off the mark last week. True, I predicted a no to Lisbon, predicted the usual suspects would call the Irish thickos and ungrateful illegitimates, and even forecast the Taoiseach would start talking about the need for “a period of reflection”.

Thursday’s referendum enables us to empower or stall Europe’s future, writes Taoiseach Brian Cowen.

FIANNA FÁIL knows scaremongering when it sees it. After all, the party has done a bit of scaremongering itself over the years. None more so than in the final days of campaigning prior to the referendum on abortion in 2002.

THE three chimpanzees have been peering down at me lately from various lampposts. Very cute they are too, placed there courtesy of Dublin-based group Cóir, which claims a membership of 2,000 people. But the Captive Animals Protection Society is not very happy.

WELL done to Youth Defence and the other pro-life groups involved on the great success of the proclamation in central Dublin on July 7.

PRO-LIFE group Youth Defence has claimed Miss D is being used by the pro-abortion lobby to further their agenda.

Referendums make for the strangest of bedfellows, and this one is no different. Paul O’Brien profiles some leading campaigners.

The Irish pro-life group Youth Defence has criticised the announcement that a medical team has implanted a cloned embryo into a woman to produce a child.

Irish protestors are travelling to Brussels this morning to stage a picket outside a meeting of EU ministers who are voting on stem cell research.

Ten demonstrators were forcibly removed from Government buildings this afternoon.

TAOISEACH Bertie Ahern is under pressure to publicly state his personal position on the Government’s support of an EU proposal for stem-cell research on embryos.

THE militant anti-abortion group, Youth Defence, disrupted a public meeting of campaigners looking for the removal of the Constitutional ban on abortion in Dublin yesterday.