Fianna Fáil may recruit Tóibín over 8th stance

Fianna Fáil could now look to poach Sinn Féin’s Peadar Tóibín after his party rejected his calls for a free vote on abortion.

Sinn Féin members overwhelmingly voted against giving members a free vote on abortion at their ard fheis over the weekend.

There were impassioned speeches on both sides as the party debated whether members should be allowed to vote in the Dáil in accordance with their conscience on the issue of repealing the Eight Amendment.