Mara Clarke, the founder of the Abortion Support Network, a charity that gives financial assistance to women from Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland to travel to England for treatment, said her organisation had seen a 24% increase in calls from women asking for help in the last year, as news of prosecutions created…

Abortion Support Network Press Release   13 June 2017   FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE   Department of Health abortion statistics released as Tory/DUP alliance looms   Look beyond the 2016 DoH abortion statistics to the full story of those forced to travel from Ireland and the Isle of Man to England for abortions   The 2016 abortion…

But one girl in Ireland was sent to a mental hospital against her will after a doctor said she was at risk for suicide—and she still had to continue the pregnancy.

The DUP is a deeply socially conservative party, and has consistently blocked both the extension of equal marriage to Northern Ireland and the roll-out of the 1967 Abortion Act. While abortion is still criminalised throughout the UK under the 1861 Offences Against the Person Act, the 1967 Act allows for terminations to be legal, under…

I grew up on a council estate. I’m very proud of my background. But it also means that I’ve seen first-hand how the Eighth Amendment has impacted the most vulnerable in Irish society.

The unnamed girl approached her doctor in Ireland for an abortion. She found herself sectioned under the Mental Health Act instead.

Entitled Choice, the compilation will raise funds for The Abortion Support Network and features unreleased outtakes from the likes of Mac Demarco, LVL UP, Nap Eyes (listed as CLBCLB) and Priests. As well as tracks from Hot Cops, Slow Skies, Squarehead, Oh Boland and more.

Ordinarily I’m allergic to people running marathons for good causes—even if it’s in support of an abortion rights charity. But Linda Kavanagh, a 37-year-old graphic designer from Ireland, is one fundraiser I can get on board with. She’s running the Dublin mini-marathon on June 5 in support of Abortion Support Network, which provides support to…

Ruby Lescott has had several Irish women she’s never met stay in her south London home. This isn’t Air BnB: Ruby is a volunteer with the Abortion Support Network, a group that helps Irish women who travel to England in order to end unwanted pregnancies.

‘DOWN with this sort of thing’. That was the message being sent to Ireland from London last night as over 400 people gathered for a comedy night with a difference. Father Ted creator Graham Linehan, as well as comedians Aisling Bea and Sara Pascoe, was among those who took to the stage at the London Irish…