A hard choice - Euthanasia figures up 67%

It was as predictable as it was unavoidable: Even though a date for a referendum on the Eighth Amendment has not yet been announced opposing camps — that phrase hardly does justice to how polarised they are — are in full campaign mode. 

Strategies and tactics are being finalised. Funding flows in all directions from all directions. It is impossible to imagine that whichever side prevails, the other will go silently into the night.

Be that as it may, is it possible that, though pressing, issues around the Eighth Amendment are no longer the only ones playing out in that sphere? Maybe.