State ‘kowtowed’ to churches over care of children: Gilmore
The Labour leader was speaking in Dublin yesterday at the launch of his party’s campaign for a yes vote in the Nov 10 referendum.
He said that in a way, the referendum was “closing a circle” for his party, as Tom Johnson, the first parliamentary Labour leader, had made the welfare of children a key provision of the democratic programme for the first Dáil in 1919.