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The scene near Dún Laoghaire Baths where Stephanie Ng was viciously assaulted. Photograph: Dave Meehan
‘It was like he was in the horrors’: The story of a boy who tried to murder a woman in Dún Laoghaire

The iPhone app was supposed to offer some level of reassurance – it would show the location of the 15-year-old boy as he moved around Dún Laoghaire an(...)

More than 25 consultant psychiatrists outlined their concerns over a potential law that would, they believe, misuse the concept of “healthcare”. File photograph: Getty Images
Psychiatrists against abortion on ‘spurious’ mental health grounds

A group of psychiatrists has said proposed abortion legislation in Ireland should not be used to facilitate terminations on “spurious” mental health g(...)

Prof Patricia Casey: “I don’t think anybody I know would want to see a woman die because of a complex pregnancy.” Photograph: Dave Meehan
Psychiatrist says to suggest abortion a solution to mental illness ‘naive in the extreme’

Consultant psychiatrist Patricia Casey has said that to suggest abortion is a solution to mental illness “is naïve in the extreme”. Referring to 201(...)

Prof Patricia Casey speaking at the launch of myadoptionstory.ie website, a resource for women with crisis pregnancies who are considering their options, with website founder Dr Fidelma Healy-Eames and Minister of State John Paul Phelan. Photograph: Dave Meehan /The Irish Times
Website promotes adoption as an option in crisis pregnancies

Women in crisis pregnancies have been urged to think of adoption by a new group and website dedicated to publicising the option. “It’s not a solution(...)

Schoolchildren walk by as anti-abortion activists protest outside the Dáil earlier this month. File photograph: Brenda Fitzsimons/The Irish Times
Committee 'couldn't find' any anti-abortion medical experts to argue for Eighth

The chair of the Oireachtas Committee on the Eighth Amendment has revealed the committee could not find a single medical expert in Ireland to argue th(...)

All those years ago, I felt a little bit sorry for Wendy, with her strange longing for shops on Stephen’s Day. Photograph: Daniel Leal-Olivas/AFP/ Getty Images
Breda O’Brien: Mindfulness not the cure for all that ails us

Over the past while, I have been thinking about a Christmas years ago when my American friend Wendy came to spend Christmas with my parents and siblin(...)

Peadar Tóibín holds different views on abortion than many of his Sinn Féin colleagues.
Sinn Féin TDs criticise colleague’s comments on abortion

Sinn Féin TDs have distanced themselves from the views of their colleague Peadar Tóibín, who on Sunday criticised the Oireachtas Committee on the eigh(...)

Committee chairwoman Catherine Noone has asked anti-abortion members to submit names of witnesses on numerous occasions. Photograph: Brenda Fitzsimons.
Anti-abortion witness declines to go to ‘kangaroo court’ committee

Another anti-abortion witness has declined to appear before the Oireachtas committee examining the Eighth Amendment claiming it is a charade with a pr(...)

Oireachtas comittee chairwoman Catherine Noone said allegations of bias required clarification. File image: Gareth Chaney Collins
Chair of Oireachtas committee defends abortion witness list

The chair of the Oireachtas committee examining the Eighth Amendment Catherine Noone has defended the work of the committee ahead of its latest hearin(...)

“The whole emphasis now will be on painting those who want abortion on demand, and those who want no abortion, as similarly extreme, and the fallacy of the middle ground will be trotted out again and again.”
Oireachtas committee’s decision on Eighth Amendment was predictable

The profound cynicism many feel about politics will only have been reinforced by the extraordinary actions of the Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Ei(...)

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