"This is our Rising": Pro-choice voices heard all over the world

AFTER a while, we stopped counting and began, instead, to time the endless waves of people who braved the rain, and the bus strike, to march in the biggest pro-choice rally Dublin has ever seen, writes Clodagh Finn

It would take a total of 26.5 minutes for the sodden crowd and all the paraphernalia of protest – banners, real drums, frying-pan drums and loud speakers – to pass, ten or more abreast, into the northern end of Merrion Square in the city centre.

That might be 20,000 people, as some estimates put it, or it might be more, but whatever the final tally, it proves one thing – the movement to repeal the Eighth Amendment of the Constitution has gathered unprecedented momentum.