An 84-year-old Canadian woman says she was offered assisted suicide in an emergency room before doctors had even determined the cause of her pain.

It has been a truly remarkable and consequential week in Irish political life. There’s been ample coverage elsewhere of what took place, from the fuel protests and the blockade at the Whitegate refinery to the political fallout that ensued.

The sad passing of Moya Brennan on Monday came as a shock to many, even though she had spoken openly about her illness and the toll pulmonary fibrosis had taken on her health.

Nearly a decade after exposing Planned Parenthood and the abortion industry’s sale of aborted foetal body parts, the final charges against David Daleiden have now been dropped.

A teenager with mental health struggles has been euthanised in the Netherlands. The young Dutch national’s life was ended less than five years after being diagnosed with autism. He had described his life as “joyless,” a factor that led to his doctor approving euthanasia.

Micheál Martin is often praised for his calm and composed leadership, but his record on abortion tells a very different story.

The comments published in this newspaper following Breda O’Brien’s recent article from two prominent pro-abortion organisations, Start and IFPA, attempt to dismiss the value of the three-day wait for reflection before abortion.

A Kentucky man has been arrested after allegedly replacing his pregnant girlfriend’s medication with an abortion drug without her knowledge.

There were 18,783 abortions in Scotland in 2025, the highest on record.