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.”