Fine Gael TD: Archbishop’s opinion on abortion ‘is not at all relevant’

Fine Gael TD Kate O’Connell has said the opinion of the Catholic Church Primate of Ireland Eamon Martin “is not at all relevant” in the debate on abortion.

Ms O’Connell has hit out at Archbishop Martin’s calls for politicians to remember their faith in their dealings with the 1983 abortion amendment.

Calling for the eighth amendment to be retained, he suggested that to support abortion is not in keeping with the fundamental teaching of the Church, and that the taking of a life, at whatever stage, is “gravely, morally wrong”.