https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5dSICoqnFGA When news broke last week that the number of Irish women having abortions in the UK had dropped considerably, responses were predictable. The anti-abortion groups were out quickly to welcome the news. The pro-choice campaign suggested austerity budgets were to blame, with fewer women financially able to travel abroad. Nobody would for a moment [...]
Garment workers eating lunch outside under a tree. Photo: Rory Coomey We'd arranged to meet union leader Sun Lyhov at 11am, the workers' breaktime. A working day in a garment factory is from 7-11 and 12.30 - 5, and as we arrived a steady stream of young men and women poured out of the [...]
What has happened to Savita Halappanavar was barbaric, cruel, inhuman and wrong. We can't bring Savita back but we can make sure this never happens again. Any woman in Ireland could lose her life because of our politicians' cowardice. It could have been any of us. I've already written to my local TDs to ask for [...]
