Time for leadership

Richard Boyd Barrett’s address to the Dáil yesterday morning was moving and powerful. He spoke about his daughter Ella, who was born with fatal foetal abnormalities and who would now be a teenager had she survived.

“She would be 13 this spring,” he said.

“It was a beautiful spring day exactly like today when we had to bury her. And myself and her mother and her two brothers think about her every day.”