Pro-choice group mounts protest demanding legal abortion

Seventeen young pro-choice activists have mounted a protest outside the Dáil calling for the legalisation of abortion in Ireland.

The activists have imprisoned themselves in a cage fashioned from coat-hangers to represent the 17 Irish women they say are forced to travel to Britain for an abortion every day.

The protestors are members of a new group calling itself BODY, which is campaigning for another referendum on abortion.