Willie O'Dea tells pro-life TDs to accept 'the will of the people'

A pro-life Fianna Fáil TD has warned similarly minded colleagues intent on blocking the planned post-eighth amendment abortion laws to back down and accept "the will of the people" in the divisive debate.

Willie O'Dea tells pro-life TDs to accept 'the will of the people'

A pro-life Fianna Fáil TD has warned similarly minded colleagues intent on blocking the planned post-eighth amendment abortion laws to back down and accept "the will of the people" in the divisive debate.

Fianna Fáil social protection spokesperson Willie O'Dea hit out after a number of pro-life TDs and senators claimed they were being silenced by their party's hierarchy - and as it separately emerged Oireachtas authorities want the bill agreed by early November.

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