Anti-abortion campaigners have vowed to continue to oppose X-Case legislation after President Michael D Higgins decided to sign it into law rather than refer it to the Supreme Court.

An opinion poll commissioned by the Pro Life Campaign has found overwhelming support for allowing TDs a free vote on the abortion legislation.

DECLAN Ganley feels that he’s publicly misrepresented.

Women who believe their lives are at risk will have to wait 10 days before a decision to refuse them a termination is reviewed.

Taoiseach Enda Kenny has insisted new abortion laws do not clear the way for near full-term pregnancies to be terminated.

A spokesperson for the Pro-Life Campaign has claimed today that the organisation has received death threats.

European human rights authorities have been warned that the proposed abortion legislation will limit access to treatment and that requests for terminations should be decided within three days and not in a matter of weeks.

Thousands of anti-abortion campaigners took to the streets of Dublin urging the Government to scrap its plans for new abortion laws.

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

Dozens of Pro-Life campaigners have staged a protest outside Leinster House in Dublin over the draft legislation on abortion.

There was surprise and delight in Ireland when the Archbishop of Buenos Aires was announced as the new leader of the world’s 1.2bn Catholics.

More than six out of 10 people support current medical practice to treat an expectant mother and her unborn baby as equals, a survey has found.

Taoiseach Enda Kenny has said the Government is not in the business of liberalising abortion.

Over 25,000 people attended a rally organised by Pro-Life campaigners in central Dublin today, according to official Garda estimates.

Protesters for and against abortion were staging separate rallies in Dublin today as each side stepped up their campaigning.

The publication of the expert group on abortion sparked predictably opposing responses from either side of the debate.

THE expert group’s report has been published.

Voices from both the pro-choice and pro-life sides of the abortion debate questioned whether handing the issue over to the Medical Council was either a likely or an adequate solution.

The Pro Life Campaign says it is doubtful that a clinic offering medical abortions will open as planned in Belfast next week.

The fiscal treaty referendum is concluded, the Irish people have spoken, and the country moves on.

FOREIGN Minister Micheál Martin’s letter headlined ‘EU treaties do not have a life of their own’ (July 11) is unclear.

Sinn Féin has hit a glass ceiling in Irish politics and this is one of the most interesting examples of how Irish voters do not like extremes. Sinn Féin should have made hay in these polls, given the collapse in Fianna Fáil’s support. Instead, it has lost its only European seat and has failed to add anything to its list of local councillors

“A ROAR of opposition by the ordinary people of Dublin” helped Joe Higgins fight off Fianna Fáil for a seat in the European Parliament, according to the country’s first Socialist Party MEP.

Socialist Party activist Joe Higgins today secured a stunning victory in the European elections to rob Fianna Fáil of its only MEP in Dublin.

A BITTER final day of the election campaign saw Fine Gael and the Greens exchange angry blows over allegations of a secret deal with republicans, while Brian Cowen insisted he would not quit whatever the scale of the voter backlash against his Government.

LIBERTAS performed an astonishing U-turn last night after earlier claiming that a leading Jewish human rights organisation was “beneath contempt”.

BOTH main parties are in danger of losing a seat in the Euro polls as Labour is set for a surge, it emerged last night.

FF’s results in previous Euro elections are poor. From 1979 to 2004 the average FF Euro vote over the 30-year period was 34.73%. Over the same period, the FF vote in general elections from 1981 to 2007 shows a significant differential. Their average over nine general elections was 43.05%

THE Government is actively encouraging other EU member states to isolate Ireland following the rejection of the Lisbon treaty, according to no campaigner and Libertas leader Declan Ganley.

Anti-Lisbon group Libertas is calling on The Government to listen to the results of today's opinion poll.

Last-minute preparations will be made today as Lisbon Treaty campaigners gear up for the visit of French President Nicolas Sarkozy.

ON May 22, Libertas spokesperson Caroline Simons was quoted in the media as saying the main reason Libertas was calling for a no vote was because of its (allegedly) negative implications for workers.

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.