The Love Both campaign has hit out at chairperson of the Institute of Obstetricians and Gynecologists Dr Peter Boylan as he "does not speak for his profession on abortion".

The independent Referendum Commission has urged people to register to vote ahead of today’s deadline to have a say in the May 25 referendum.

The independent Referendum Commission has urged people to register to vote ahead of today’s deadline to have a say in the May 25 referendum.

Ireland must have an honest discussion about the “barbaric” reality of abortion, ahead of next month’s referendum, members of the LoveBoth pro-life campaign have said.

A Cabinet minister has been accused of being over-confident in predicting the referendum to repeal the Eighth Amendment will be won by a comfortable margin.

The Pro Life Campaign says revelations about recruitment practices for the Citizens’ Assembly put a “question mark” over whether the Government should hold a referendum on the constitutional ban on abortion.

Simon Harris is to formally seek approval for a referendum as a poll shows majority back repealing the Eighth Amendment, writes Daniel McConnell.

Taoiseach Leo Varadkar is facing fresh pressure to endorse the wide-scale liberalisation of Ireland’s abortion laws after politicians made clear-cut calls to repeal the Eighth Amendment, allow abortion up to 12 weeks pregnancy and to decriminalise the act.

Almost 1,000 people attended the Pro-Life Campaign's National Conference at the RDS in Dublin today.

Ireland is at risk of having to pay compensation to thousands of women forced to travel abroad to receive an abortion unless the law is immediately changed to make the procedure legal and easily accessible.

"100,000 people are alive thanks to the insertion of the 8th amendment into the constitution," said Cora Sherlock, spokesperson for the Pro Life Campaign.

The Pro Life Campaign has hit out at what they claim is the "grossly irresponsible" use by pro choice advocates of selected details of today’s news that a young woman had been denied an abortion under the 2013 Abortion Act.

Women who ordered abortion pills from an online service against a backdrop of strict anti-abortion laws reported successfully terminating their pregnancy with few adverse events, new research has found.

UPDATE 10.25pm:  The United Nation’s latest condemnation of Ireland’s abortion laws are “bordering on the ridiculous” according to the Pro Life Campaign.

The Citizens’ Assembly has been given extra time to consider the issue of the eighth amendment.

A group that provides abortions in Britain has launched an aftercare telephone service for women in Ireland who use abortion pills bought online.

Independent ministers have been warned by a cabinet colleague that backing abortion legislation that is unconstitutional will set a “difficult precedent”.

The Government is to defy the United Nations by stalling on abortion reform, despite a condemnation of the existing laws as “cruel, inhuman and degrading”.

The number of medical card holders taking oral contraceptives has more than doubled since 2009, according to the HSE.

Hundreds of people have turned out for a Pro-Life event in Dublin today to save the Eighth Amendment.

The country’s broadcasting watchdog has upheld a complaint against The Ray D’Arcy Show on RTÉ radio involving an interview conducted by the host on the subject of abortion.

The number of Irish women travelling to Britain for an abortion has almost halved in the past 14 years.

Paschal Donohoe claims a referendum on the Eighth Amendment will go ahead in the near future.

Unscripted remarks by President Michael D Higgins’ wife, Sabina, on abortion have provoked outrage in the pro-life movement, which described them as “calculated and inappropriate”.

Cora Sherlock says there is nothing positive about abortion for women, and the debate in this country pits women against women in the worst possible way

The vast majority of people in Ireland want abortion decriminalised and access expanded, a poll for Amnesty International has found.

Singers Sinéad O’Connor and Christy Moore, writers Colm Tóibín and Edna O’Brien, actor Cillian Murphy, and artist Pauline Bewick are among leading figures in Irish music, literature, and the arts advocating for the abolition of the eighth amendment to the Constitution, which they say has “prevented our doctors and our legislators from providing proper care to women”.

More than 80% of the public want wider access to abortion to be made available in Ireland, an opinion poll shows.

A total of 26 terminations were carried out under the Protection of Life During Pregnancy Act last year.

It has been revealed that 26 terminations of pregnancy were carried out in Ireland last year.

A drone being used to carry abortion pills into Poland this weekend may also be used for the same purpose in Ireland, it has emerged.

The pro-life campaign is playing down reports of public support for repealing of the eighth amendment, in the wake of the weekend's marriage referendum result.

Tom Curran, the widowed partner of Marie Fleming who lost a landmark case on the right-to-die, has accused the DPP of ignoring the Supreme Court’s wish that guidelines be introduced to set out when people who help their loved ones to die would face prosecution.

From a wannabe Southside Evita to one of the few TDs with a spine — Lucinda Creighton has been called it all.

Members of the pro-life campaign have said it is a sign of a healthy democracy that life and death issues are determined in the courts.

Campaigners for both sides of the abortion issue revealed their views on the tragic case.

Julia Holcomb, once a teenage girlfriend of Aerosmith singer Steve Tyler, will tell a Pro Life Campaign conference how the pair both regretted her abortion.

The British Family Planning Association has described the decision to force an immigrant rape victim in this country to give birth at 24 weeks rather than allow her an abortion as "nothing short of barbaric".

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.

The Education Minister has today rejected claims that the new legislation on abortion is flawed.