Lawyers point to 'cruel irony' as woman fights assisted suicide law

Lawyers for terminally ill woman Marie Fleming said today that it is a cruel irony that those likely to need the right to terminate life are denied it, due to a physical disability.

The 58-year-old mother-of-two, who has multiple sclerosis, needs help to fulfil her wish of dying peacefully in the arms of her partner Tom Curran at their home in Arklow, Co Wicklow.