Though the last prosecution in Ireland for a suicide attempt was in 1967, the jury is still out on the topic of assisted dying.

Motor neurone disease sufferer Noel Conway said the voices of the terminally ill "deserve to be heard" as he won the first stage of his Court of Appeal challenge to an earlier ruling on assisted dying.

Cartan Finnegan, 86, wants the right to die at a time of his choosing if and when the Parkinson’s disease he is living with becomes too much for him to bear.

The partner of the late right-to-die campaigner Marie Fleming says he helped dozens of seriously and terminally ill people plan their deaths with loved ones who risk jail for assisting them.

The Labour leader says she supports setting up a constitutional convention to look at the question of a 'right to die'.

Right to die campaigner Tom Curran says a soon-to-be introduced Dáil bill allowing assisted suicide will be about safeguarding vulnerable people.

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.

The Vatican’s bioethics chief has called the assisted suicide of an American woman with terminal brain cancer “reprehensible”.

There has perhaps never been a book that arrived at a point of such poignancy as the autobiography of the courageous right-to-die campaigner Marie Fleming.