Pat Rabbitte on the politics of Repeal the Eighth
Many young people who marched yesterday will not be aware of how the issue was dealt with in the 1970s and 1980s
The author and former Labour TD John Horgan records in his book, The Price of Power, some of the exchanges within the parliamentary Labour Party in the 1970s on what had become known as “issues of conscience”. The chairman, Tom Kyne TD, was laying down the law on the need for discipline and maintenance of the whip. He digressed, however, to say that “on the other hand, if the government were, for instance, ...
