Grasping the nettle

Political correspondent Mary Regan speaks to a Labour TD anxious that, after 20 years of successive Dáils avoiding the topic, this Government legislates on the issue of abortion

WITH a Dáil motion on the issue due next week, followed shortly by a Government commissioned expert group report, the topic of abortion will soon be back on the political agenda.

The Dáil’s youngest female TDs, Ciara Conway, expects the issue to be “polarising” but she thinks it’s time politicians stopped being afraid and finally faced up to it.