Issue of Eighth Amendment is not as black and white as the slogan

THERE they sat, with their black and white repeal T-shirts clearly visible under their jackets.

The Anti Austerity Alliance-People Before Profit TDs were clearly gearing up for a stunt at leader’s questions, the highest profile part of the Dáil day.

And sure enough, once Ruth Coppinger got up to her feet to try and embarrass Taoiseach Enda Kenny’s lack of progress in terms of liberalising the country’s abortion laws, the jackets came off and the T-shirts were in full view.