MORE Irish women than Irish men emigrated to London in the early 1980s, as revealed in Breaking Ground — The Story of the London Irish Women’s Centre, a documentary that will be screened next Monday at the Cork Film Festival. The 30-year “feminist collective” closed in 2012.

A woman who for years has helped Irish women seek terminations in the UK has warned that the credit crunch could bring about the return of "medieval" backstreet abortions.