Supreme Court never ruled on Lisbon protocol

DESPITE Donal O’Driscoll’s assertion (Letters, January 5), the Irish Supreme Court never adjudicated on protocol 35 to the Lisbon Treaty.

Our Supreme Court made its own decision in 1992 in the ‘X Case’ to permit abortion in very limited circumstances under Article 40.3.3 of the constitution, “where there is a real and substantial risk to the life of the mother”.

To imply that the EU is somehow responsible for such a decision is nothing short of disingenuous. It was a judgment made by our own domestic courts and not a ruling imposed from outside.