Former minister Mary O’Rourke paid for women to travel for abortions

‘I didn’t look at the legalities... they came to me for practical help’

Former Fianna Fáil minister and deputy leader Mary O’Rourke has revealed she paid for two women to go to England to have an abortion.

Mrs O’Rourke, who retired from active politics in 2011, said she finally helped the two women, who were deeply distressed, to travel to Liverpool and London during the 1990s.