WRONG PRIORITY

As ministers hold crisis talks on abortion, the focus is not on an agreement that is safest for women, but a solution that is safest politically, says political correspondent Mary Regan

AFTER six side-stepping governments and more than two decades of procrastination, the women of Ireland could have been forgiven for expecting that some clarity to confused abortion laws was finally in sight.

But as ministers hold crisis meetings this week to try to hammer out a compromised piece of legislation, it seems this administration is still a far way from achieving finality on the issue.