AS an MEP, Dana has done more in defence of pro-life, pro-family and pro-Christian values than the other Irish MEPs combined.

SO now we know. Bertie has issued his edict. There is no more room at the inn for party dissenters and true democracy within Fianna Fáil appears to have suffered a fatal blow.

IN his column (Irish Examiner, Sept 3), Rónán Mullen, writing on the cult of abortion, asks: “Did the pro-life movement... consider that legal protection was the best that could be achieved in view of an inevitable collapse in public morality.”