Catherine Conlon, School of Social Work and Social Policy, Dr Deirdre Duffy, Lancaster University, write about their research about service users and providers of abortion service in Ireland. This piece was first published by The Irish Times.
On Friday night I headed for the rooftop restaurant in the Crowne Plaza for a rather special party. The evening was being run to pay homage to retiring De La Salle school principal Patricia O’Leary from Dromiskin, Raymond Lamont and to the late school secretary Gina O’Reilly from Kilcurry and a large crowd had turned to support the evening.