Gail O'Rorke, who was acquitted on all charges of assisting the suicide of Bernadette Forde. Picture: Rollingnews.ie
There are no easy answers in the right-to-die debate, but people experiencing intense suffering deserve certainty.
Having voted overwhelmingly to support gay marriage, it is easy to forget that Ireland only abolished the offence of ‘buggery’ between consenting adults in 1993.
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