The phoney war is over
The Christmas break will allow all sides to draw breath and draw up their plans for the ‘mother of all battles’ over the eighth amendment
There was a lone man standing outside Leinster House in the dark and cold. Inside the Houses of the Oireachtas, momentous votes were being passed by the members of the Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Eighth Amendment of the Constitution. The man was holding up a small home-made poster in his hands that said ‘abortion is murder’. As people came out through the gates, he repeated the words for their benefit, in case ...
