Kenny rejects link to abortion law stance

Enda Kenny has insisted there is no connection between the death of Savita Halappanavar and the Government’s stance on abortion legislation.

The Taoiseach said the issues were “quite separate” and it was a “tragic coincidence” that Health Minister James Reilly received a report on how Ireland should respond to a European ruling that abortion should be legal where there was a risk to a women’s life, as news of Ms Halappanavar’s death emerged yesterday.

The expert group was set up last year to examine the decision of the 2010 European Court of Human Rights in the ABC case.