Kenny rejects calls for assisted suicide law

Calls for assisted suicide to be legalised have been rejected by Taoiseach Enda Kenny.

Independent TD John Halligan urged Mr Kenny to reconsider the emotive issue following the failure of terminally ill multiple sclerosis sufferer Marie Fleming to get the Supreme Court to back her bid to end her life.

Ms Fleming’s partner Tom Curran attended the Dáil’s public gallery to hear Mr Halligan plead on his wife’s behalf.