Independent Ireland leader: Make prostitution legal and chemically castrate rapists

Cork TD says the new party could win up to 15 Dáil seats at the next election and would have no objection to a coalition with Sinn Féin

Michael Collins said criminals should get 25 years for a third conviction. Picture: Damien Storan

Prostitution should be legal and abortion is permissible in some circumstances, Independent Ireland party leader Michael Collins has said in a new interview. 

In a wide-ranging interview with Hot Press magazine, the Cork South-West TD, who leads the newest party in the country, says he believes that he and his colleagues could return with up to 15 Dáil seats at the next general election and would have no objection to going into coalition with Sinn Féin.