Terminally-ill Marie Fleming critical of Taoiseach

A terminally-ill woman has criticised Taoiseach Enda Kenny and the judiciary for leaving her in a terrible limbo by not allowing her to die by assisted suicide.

Terminally-ill Marie Fleming critical of Taoiseach

In a statement, read out by her partner on the Late Late Show last night, Marie Fleming said she felt the seven-judge Supreme Court had not listened to what she had to say when they ruled earlier this week against her challenge to the ban on assisted suicide.

Ms Fleming, 59, who is in the final stages of multiple sclerosis, is so ill she is unable to take her own life and she is afraid her partner, Tom Curran, will be prosecuted if he assists her wish.

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