Letters to Kenny reveal anger on abortion

Taoiseach Enda Kenny has received hundreds of vitriolic letters warning him against introducing abortion with some comparing him to ruthless dictators and others warning him the blood of children will be on his hands.

Others pressed him to stand up to the Church and to “drag Ireland into the 21st century” by legislating for abortion in limited circumstances following the death of Indian woman Savita Halappanavar.

Fine Gael voters on both sides of the debate have pledged to abandon the party at the next general election, in hundreds of letters sent to him, his ministers, and TDs and obtained by the Irish Examiner.