Joyce Fegan: Pregnant women — what's their lobby group?

'We've been allowing, or denying, women support based on centimetres these last 14 months'

Social Democrats TD Holly Cairns and Uplift's Siobhan O'Donoghue, along with a group of new mothers at the Coombe last December to protest the maternity ban on partners. File picture: Paul Sharp

The pubs have the Vintners' Federation lobbying for them. The restaurants had the Restaurants Association of Ireland batting for them. Footballers and rugby players have the likes of the GAA and the IRFU in their corner.

The pubs got to open last December - remember that, and that fallout?