Change will come, dripping slowly

Absolute positions on abortion are no longer tenable, as three days of hearings showed, says Michael Clifford

THREE days of news, views, and opinions on abortion, and the winner is… the referee.

Jerry Buttimer, chairman of the Oireachtas health committee, succeeded where so many others have failed in this most sensitive of issues. He brooked no rancour, kept everybody in line, and his timekeeping wouldn’t go astray at the Super Bowl.