“The government has failed to put safeguards in place because they were in such a rush to legalise the most liberal abortion law possible.”

Trócaire is deeply embedded in Irish culture and is an organisation people in Ireland are rightly proud of, said Caoimhe de Barra.

Archbishop Eamon Martin is convinced that a constructive culture of engagement, rather than a pointless culture war, is the best way to ensure that the voice of faith, communicating the Family, can be heard.

Sinn Féin leader Gerry Adams was “the working class hero” and the SDLP “count for nothing” – Cardinal Daly.

“The Catholic Church has no interest in having a monopoly of all the schools of Ireland," Primate tells RTE Radio.