Hospital board member resigns

A Mater Hospital board member who claimed the facility would ignore new abortion laws as they contradict its Catholic ethos has resigned after being overruled by colleagues.

In August, Fr Kevin Doran said the voluntary hospital would not comply with the Protection of Life During Pregnancy Act.

Despite being named as one of the 25 “appropriate institutions” where the procedures can take place under the law, the priest said the facility’s Catholic ethos blocked any such proposals.