Person: Linda Kavanagh

Cautious response to plans for referendum on abortion in 2018

Leo Varadkar's announcement that Health Minister Simon Harris has been given special responsibility in the area has met with a cool response.

Fri, 16 Jun, 2017

Women who sourced abortion pills online ended their pregnancy without surgical intervention

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.

Wed, 17 May, 2017

Abortion Rights Campaign ordered by SIPO to return George Soros grant

A group campaigning for the repeal of the constitutional amendment that prohibits abortion has confirmed it returned funding it received from an international organisation following correspondence with the ethics watchdog.

Sat, 01 Apr, 2017

Majority back changes to abortion laws, poll shows

Pro-life and pro-choice campaigners have claimed victory after an opinion poll appeared to suggest a majority of people favour liberalising the country’s abortion laws. The latest Irish Times/Ipsos MRBI poll showed a significant majority of voters are in favour of changing the Constitution to allow for abortion but only in limited circumstances.

Sat, 08 Oct, 2016

WATCH: 'This is our Rising' - Repeal protest finds its voice at pro-choice rally

After a while, we stopped counting and began, instead, to time the endless waves of people who braved the rain, and bus strike, to march in the biggest pro-choice rally the country has seen.

Mon, 26 Sep, 2016

"This is our Rising": Pro-choice voices heard all over the world

AFTER a while, we stopped counting and began, instead, to time the endless waves of people who braved the rain, and the bus strike, to march in the biggest pro-choice rally Dublin has ever seen, writes Clodagh Finn

Sun, 25 Sep, 2016

Abortion rights campaign spreads to 22 cities globally

Crowds of expats and pro-choice activists are to gather in capital cities around the world today to support the call for a referendum on abortion in Ireland.

Sat, 24 Sep, 2016

76 of 158 TDs back poll for abortion law reform but not part of current talks

The Irish Family Planning Association has described as bizarre the exclusion of abortion reform from government formation talks despite a majority of TDs now being in favour of re-examining the law.

Wed, 06 Apr, 2016

Activists protest over abortion case in North

Abortion activists held a demonstration in Dublin against the prosecution of a woman in Northern Ireland for procuring her daughter with abortion pills.

Thu, 23 Jul, 2015

Song of praise for Irish mothers

They have changed our nappies, tended our scrapes, packed our school lunches, cured every ill with flat 7-Up and, in some cases, still wash our clothes.

Sat, 29 Mar, 2014

Witness: Brothers were taking turns to beat victim

An eye witness in the case of two Dublin brothers on trial for murder has told the jury one of the men said to the other “we need to finish him off” after they had attacked and beaten her neighbour.

Mon, 14 Feb, 2011