Labour pushes to repeal Eighth Amendment

Labour has moved to try and galvanise the energy of the marriage equality campaign to push termination rights to the centre of the political stage ahead of the looming election.

The party’s junior health minister Kathleen Lynch insisted that repealing the Eighth Amendment, which gives equal weight to the life of the mother and unborn, was “do-able”.

But while senior Fine Gael figures backed getting rid of the amendment, they insisted that there could not be another referendum during the remaining lifetime of this Dáil.