Soon after being elected a TD for the first time, Simon Harris wrote the following in the Sunday Independent: “Voltaire once commented that ‘the most important thing in life is to speak your mind’. That’s exactly what I did last week. At a private meeting amongst colleagues, I raised concerns about legislating for abortion in…

I happened to be at one of the count centres last Saturday morning as ballot boxes opened and early tallies showed what was in store in the ‘family’ and ‘care’ referendums. Looking at the results rolling in, one ‘No’ voter remarked to me that he recently read about how much funding the National Women’s Council…