The Oireachtas health committee will discuss whether it can publish the Attorney General’s legal advice on the defeated fatal foetal abnormalities abortion bill — and if the Constitution prevents all terminations in these cases — on Thursday.

Proposed changes to Ireland’s abortion regime legislate for the killing of babies, it has been claimed.

It is as if the cabinet lobbed the abortion issue into the committee and ran for cover as havoc ensued, writes Michael Clifford.

An external investigation has found that Institute of Technology Tralee (ITT) chairman Flan Garvey committed unintentional plagiarism in a 2008 master’s thesis but this has been overturned on a technical appeal.

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.

A leading anti-abortion campaigner has accused Health Minister James Reilly of restricting the options open to an expert group on introducing legislation governing abortion.

Retired Supreme Court judge Mrs Justice Catherine McGuinness has said the X Case is the law and must be legislated for.

The Pro Life Campaign said today that the Taoiseach would be breaking a pre-election promise if he introduces legislation for abortion.

A REPORT by the Irish Human Rights Commission has said changes in the law are needed to protect the rights of children of no or minority faith in denominational Irish schools.

The authors of a new report on religion and education say the State is not in a position to immediately begin providing education that allows for diverse religious beliefs.

A CARE centre for the intellectually disabled where chronic under-funding led to human rights violations has suffered even more cutbacks since its shortcomings were highlighted.

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.

SENSITIVE legislation must be produced to protect the life of the “embryonic human being”, the Pro-Life campaign insisted.

The Pro Life campaign has said legislation to protect human embryos is "urgently required".

THE Irish Council for Bioethics (ICB) recently issued an opinion which recommended that frozen IVF embryos could be destroyed for research to generate human embryonic stem cell lines.

ALMOST two-thirds of people would support a constitutional amendment prohibiting abortion but allowing medical intervention to save a mother’s life, a poll reveals.

ALMOST two-thirds of people would support a constitutional amendment prohibiting abortion but allowing medical intervention to save a mother’s life, a poll reveals.

Former Fine Gael TD Maurice Manning was today re-appointed as president of the Human Rights Commission for a second five-year term.

A LEADING anti-abortion group has called on the Government to provide greater legal protection for human embryos in the face of growing pressure for their use in stem cell research.

The Pro Life campaign is releasing a poll showing that a majority Irish people are in favour of legislation to protect human embryos.

Taoiseach Bertie Ahern will today address a major conference of the Catholic Church that is exploring the values inspiring Irish political and social life.

IN a recent article, Prof William Binchy is reported as having stated that “couples should be allowed to make a legally binding commitment, never to divorce” (Irish Examiner, August 26).

COUPLES should be allowed make a legally binding commitment never to divorce, one of the State’s leading family law experts advocated last night.

NEW laws to tackle compo culture and exaggerated claims may be unfair to genuine victims, a senior legal expert has warned.

A CLEAR majority of voters in Leinster believe children born to non-national parents should not be automatically entitled to Irish citizenship, the latest Irish Examiner/Prime Time poll has found.

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

A FIANNA FÁIL candidate in the local elections told me an interesting story when I asked him about the citizenship referendum.

The citizenship referendum could still go either way, writes Political Reporter Michael O’Farrell.

THE citizenship referendum is likely to be a far tighter contest than previously anticipated, the latest opinion poll findings reveal.

THE Government’s citizenship referendum is being carried out with undue haste and will create Constitutional ambiguities over the rights of children, a petition signed by 150 lawyers claimed yesterday.

A group of 150 lawyers have launched a campaign against the Government’s proposed citizenship referendum.

A group of Irish civic leaders has written to the Taoiseach, Bertie Ahern, urging him to delay the Government’s planned referendum on citizenship rights.

I WAS appalled at the behaviour of Justice Minister Michael McDowell during his appearance on RTÉ’s Prime Time on April 8.

“A CROWD of us were going along the Shepherd’s Bush Road when out of a lane came a chap with a donkey — just the sort of donkey and just the sort of cart they have at home,” Michael Collins once recalled.

A EUROPEAN human rights body has more powers to enter garda stations than the new Garda Ombudsman, a State-appointed watchdog said yesterday.