Ms Smyth

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Protesters gather on O’Connell Street to demonstrate against the highly restrictive abortion law introduced in Texas. Photograph: Alan Betson
Protesters gather in Dublin to oppose Texas abortion law

Protesters gathered in Dublin on Saturday to demonstrate against the highly restrictive abortion law introduced in Texas. The Irish protest took plac(...)

Co-directors of Together For Yes (left to right) Ailbhe Smyth, Gráinne Griffin and Orla O’Connor. File Photograph: Niall Carson/PA
Women being ‘intimidated’ when accessing abortion services, campaigners say

Women have been intimidated when accessing abortion services in the State and such “chilling” behaviour could deter more doctors from signing up to pr(...)

Jacqui Dwyer (left) and Louise Smyth at the community communion pop-up shop at Ballymun Child and Family Resource Centre in Ballymun, Dublin. Photograph: Dara Mac Dónaill/The Irish Times
A community project for Communion season’s best-dressed

In Dublin’s Ballymun, amid elaborate confections of chiffon, voile, silk and lace, little girls and their parents are this year able to say yes to the(...)

A French protester displays the #MeToo slogan with #Balancetonporc (“expose your pig”) during a rally against sexual violence in Paris last year. Photograph: Bertrand Guay/AFP/Getty Images
#MeToo a vehicle for ‘professional feminists’, author claims

The #MeToo movement is not representative of the majority of women’s experiences, a conference in Dublin heard on Saturday. Ella Whelan, author of Wh(...)

Minister for Health Simon Harris during the Eighth Amendment referendum count at the RDS, Dublin. Photograph: Gareth Chaney/Collins
Government will seek to bring in abortion law as soon as practicable – Harris

Minister for Health Simon Harris has insisted the Government will seek to implement the decision of the people expressed in the abortion referendum as(...)

Orla O’Connor, Ailbhe Smyth and Grainne Griffin at the launch of the Together For Yes poster campaign. Photograph: Gareth Chaney Collins
Together for Yes campaign says it is on course to raise €500,000

Pro-choice campaign group Together for Yes has said it is on course to raise €500,000 to fund its Eighth Amendment referendum campaign. The Together(...)

Senator Catherine Noone, the chairwoman of the Oireachtas committee on abortion, outside Leinster House, Dublin. Photograph: Gareth Chaney/Collins
Abortion referendum wording ‘should ensure it passes’

The chairwoman of the all-party Oireachtas committee on the Eighth Amendment, Fine Gael Senator Catherine Noone, has said it would be “prudent” for th(...)

Dublin International Film Festival director Grainne Humphreys and Richard Molloy, head of product and marketing at Audi Ireland, pictured at the Lighthouse Cinema in Dublin
Dublin Film Festival motors on with Audi as sponsor

Carmaker Audi has signed a three-year deal to become lead sponsor of the Dublin International Film Festival, replacing Jameson, which had backed the e(...)

Mr Justice Weir said: ‘You have pleaded guilty to two counts of murder. There is only one sentence permitted by law for the offence of murder and that is the sentence of life imprisonment, and I impose on you the sentence of life imprisonment on these two counts.’ Photograph: Graham Hughes/Photocall Ireland
Man (34) sentenced to life for double murder in Belfast

A 34-year old man was sentenced to life on Tuesday after admitting the murder of a man and woman in east Belfast. The bodies of friends Caron Smyth (4(...)